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.

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