Re: To-do or not to-do

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Posted by sub
2005-05-10 00:40:41

> Steve C.: To-do, project planning, calendar? Why not try Gantt chart software?

I do actually; that’s part of the problem. Gantt charts are fine for planning and overviewing a single project. Things start getting complicated when one wants to work with many projects at a time and collaborate with other people on the common ones.

Stephen D.‘s approach of _not_ using a calendar but maintaining an overview of tasks is what I’ve been doing most of my time as a freelancer. However, I’m now moving into a partnership and also undertaking a couple of major projects for which I need to coordinate others.

The “solutions” are supposedly there, in the form of MS Project Server and Outlook applications in a networking environment. But for me they are too complex—and expensive- and do _not_ provide a visual kind of overview of things. They impose too specific a way of working.

I’ve got steps (1) and (2) as suggested by Stephen more or less sorted out. Now for (3) which is now absolutely essential.

(1) decompose projects into manageable tasks: mainly Brainstorm/Freemind and Gantt software

(2) list manager: Hyperclip’s flat view, referencing tasks in their respective project context

(3) placing time-specific tasks into a calendar that can be shared with others: I guess I’ll have to do this—at least part of it- manually, as the sources are rather varied, and see how it works out.

alx

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