Personal task manager with graphic feedback

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Posted by Jerome
Dec 9, 2009 at 06:25 PM

Hi all,

I don’t think this has been mentioned already: http://www.effexis.com/achieve/planner.htm
I’ve not used it but it looks like it might do some of the things you’re looking at.

cheers /jerome

Posted by Frank
Dec 9, 2009 at 09:07 PM

Regarding GoalEnforcer: goals are just an abstraction. You can just view it as tasks=>sub-tasks if you prefer it that way. Also, there is a big difference between “vague goals” (the ones you mentioned), and “specific goals.”
Specific goals are very useful for project planning.

Regarding your statement “graphical feedback of time planned and time available after planning in tasks.”
What kind of graph would you require? Could you describe it?
As far as I know, that’s what a Gantt chart is used for.

Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM

Thanks Frank. I can do better than describing the type of graph I require, I can show you - look back at the 16th post in this thread - there are links to some screen dumps.

I don’t want to bore everybody by going over my needs again, though don’t get me wrong - I really appreciate every lead people have posted. GoalEnforcer just doesn’t work for me. In my way of working projects tend to be synonymous with tasks (as, often, are goals), and there is no collaboration with other people, so Gantt charts don’t help at all. It’s a daily feedback to how much has been planned against how much time is available that I find useful, as shown in those screen dumps.

I appreciate that I’m very much in the minority in my work patterns, which is why finding a killer task manager (which suits me) has been a long trek without an end in sight yet :-)

Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 10, 2009 at 04:21 PM

Just wondering if a GTD application would do it? There are plenty of variants on those around, of course, including Chandler and a number of other open-source options (I’ll send you a few links, if you think that’s in the ballpark?).

Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 10, 2009 at 04:26 PM

Actually, Graham, given your idiosyncratic requirements, you might want to take a look at TaskMerlin (the tour starts here: http://www.taskmerlin.com/tour/start.aspx?lp=td1). Looks rather nice, and would appear to be vastly customisable…

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