Lifehacker are running a poll on the best personal project management tools.
http://lifehacker.com/5601278/five-best-personal-project-management-tools On Jul 27, 10:47 pm, Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > I was a long-time MS Project user (from version 2) and a beta tester > on Project 98. > > I think there are some project management features that MLO should > incorporate and have working-- for example, designated a Folder as a > project and completing all of its subtasks STILL does not have the > Project show as 100% complete. > > The bigger issue for MLO is to have it related to time, which it > currently isn't. You can set deadlines for things and MLO will warn > you simplistically (based on how long you've asked for lead time), but > MLO does not do any calculations to determine when things will happen > in reality, which is almost a must in any personal productivity > system. > > Since MLO is aimed at personal productivity, getting MS Project > involved is beyond overkill. I feel that if what you're doing is > sufficiently complex and you have access to Project, build it out in > MS Project, then put an item in MLO to "Work on Project". > > I like Gantt charts UNTIL I have anything other than a waterfall of > dependencies (meaning each task depends on on its predecessor). Gantt > charts start to fall apart when there are multiple dependency > relationships. Gantts will tell you when things are going to happen > (which MLO is missing and should have, IMO), and in some way, what > depends on what else. > > Enough people are asking for it that I think Andrey should take a stab > at making it work with another freely available solution (export to), > but I would like to see the time-management stuff sorted out first. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
