Hi Richard, Yes, it is a mobile app (iPhone/iPod/iPad) and I downloaded it yesterday to give it a try as a complimentary tool. It's a good concept but too buggy to use. While I love that it allows you to enter the end date, start date, and total hours for a project and then it gives you a graph with your workload (along with a line that lets you see whether it's above/below the workload you want) so that you can change dates to make everything fit the amount of hours you have available, it crashed many many (many, many) times during use. So many times that I would consider it utterly unusable (I would say an average of less than 30 seconds of use before crashes). I tried the company's fix as listed on their website and this changed nothing. My iPhone is under 2 months old so it's not that my OS is too old.
I will have a look at Tom's Planner as a compliment as well. Thanks I seem to have come up with a temporary system that works inside of MLO. It took a long time to set up and I'm still tweaking it but I will be glad to share it when I see if it works properly. I'd gladly create and upload a template as well if there's room for that here somewhere. What I don't understand is why so few pieces of software include a "How much work have you booked for period X" feature. Any of the good ones have you estimate your time per task or per project as well as deadlines and lead times so the data's all there. How is it that SmartPlans claims to be the first to have this type of feature. Unless you have only one project (or very flexible deadlines), it can get very complicated very fast. In fact, when I did create my makeshift system, I realized that I had a week where I had 93 hours of work booked (to fit into a 42.5 hour week). Had I continued using the "today forward" method I would have either missed deadlines or had a VERY bad week! Seeing that allows me to adjust start times and spread the work out so that I wouldn't wind up with that kind of a crunch. If I can think through a helpful way to phrase a feature request (i.e. try to find what the minimum is that is needed for this so the programmers can get the most bang for their programming-hours buck) I'll do so. It seems like something like this would pull a program, especially as full-featured a program as MLO unquestionably to the front of the pack. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out this afternoon. Mary -- 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.
