Achieve Planner in Rapid Development
Posted by srdiamond15
on 12/18/2005
srdiamond15
12/18/2005 2:44 pm
Achieve Planner is well on the road to becoming the best to do list manager on Windows. It is one of three programs that uses hierarchical assignment of priorities, and it is more comprehensive than the competition, as it provides extensively both for management at the task and the project levels.Unlike some competing products, the developer is not secretive about the algorithm it uses for computing priority, and the algorithm itself is configurable.
The developer is both a crack programmer and understands the principles and controversies in time management.
Some of you might who have looked at the Achieve Planner might have missed the current development spurt, as it is occurring in the beta version. The beta version can be downloaded without a license for the main product, but it isn't conspicuous. To get the beta go to http://www.effexis.com/achieve/beta/achieve-planner-12-beta.htm One major feature added by in the beta is the Task Chooser, which presents you with what you should be working on at the moment, based on the specied factors, using the prioritizing algorithm.
Achieve Planner already has the strongest outliner of any planner I'm aware of, but it will get considerably stronger yet. Hoisting is planned for one of the next following releases.
This program has contributed more to my productivity than any other planning vehicle I've used.
Stephen R. Diamond
The developer is both a crack programmer and understands the principles and controversies in time management.
Some of you might who have looked at the Achieve Planner might have missed the current development spurt, as it is occurring in the beta version. The beta version can be downloaded without a license for the main product, but it isn't conspicuous. To get the beta go to http://www.effexis.com/achieve/beta/achieve-planner-12-beta.htm One major feature added by in the beta is the Task Chooser, which presents you with what you should be working on at the moment, based on the specied factors, using the prioritizing algorithm.
Achieve Planner already has the strongest outliner of any planner I'm aware of, but it will get considerably stronger yet. Hoisting is planned for one of the next following releases.
This program has contributed more to my productivity than any other planning vehicle I've used.
Stephen R. Diamond
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12/19/2005 5:07 pm
This program has contributed more to my productivity than any other planning vehicle I've used.
This is a very serious claim, and precisely the kind of comment I keep an eye for at this forum; over the last couple of years I have re-evaluated at least two programs that I had initially rejected, namely IDEA! and UltraRecall, because of such comments.
In both cases the comments enabled me to comprehend the programs' strengths and I ended up purchasing them. CRIMP aside, they are now the two of my three main "brain tools".
The third is Brainstorm, which I also initially rejected and then re-evaluated, but for different reasons as far as I recall.
Interestingly, I was initially unimpressed by Achieve Planner as well.
All this to say that evaluating a tool that will seriously support someone's thought organisation is not something that, I at least, can do quickly and "intuitively".
alx