Other software that uses Dynamic Scheduling principle except A&B and TimeTo

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Posted by marat
Aug 7, 2007 at 05:32 PM

Greetings to everyone,

This is my question: Is there any other DS software except A&B and TimeTo?

I’ve been using Above&Beyond/TimeTo since 2001 and I should say that I can’t live now without Dynamic planning. This concept is like a drug - having used A&B or TimeTo one can never return to Outlook style ugly “planning”.

But I was googleing the Net many times and couldn’t find other dynamic scheduling software. On the contrary, there are tons of programs that are similar to Outlook and with their useless “Tasks” and “Calendar” features. I really don’t understand the reason to duplicate clones of such a crap.

Currently I’m happy with TimeTo but I would like it to have an ability to intergrate milestones into the projects. In other words, it would be great if there was an option to mark a task as a milestone for its project and then, when reporting you could only print out milestones without the necessity to count unimportant tasks. Or have a quick look at all your projects where there would be only milestones shown for every project so that you now where you are on each particular project.

Thanks.

Posted by dan7000
Aug 7, 2007 at 06:04 PM

Last year, I tried out all the software I could find that would do dynamic scheduling. I used A&B and TT for a while, but neither one of them seemed to schedule things the way I wanted, and neither one integrated well with my other PIM tools.

I ended up using Taskline, and I am completely happy with and addicted to it. I would put it on my top 5 software tools.

You may not like taskline, because it is an Outlook plugin. I too wanted a standalone product, but once I started using Taskline I realized the benefits of the Outlook plugin. First, you get all Outlook functionality for free - like grouping, categories, drag and drop emails, etc. Second, taskline schedules your tasks right into your Outlook calendar or into a new Outlook calendar, and it takes into account your fixed calendar entries. So, unlike in A&B, if I have a busy week next week, Taskline will realize that and will schedule less tasks for me. Regenerating your taskline schedule deletes and recreates these calendar entries.

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