Best PIM for project management?

Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 22, 2012 at 10:18 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Dr Andus, I will second LM7’s support for Achieve Planner, even though I do not use it
>myself (the reason being that nowadays I work with teams, so I need collaborative
>tools; see http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3328).
> >There are
>plenty of tutorials to get you through the required steps. Roger, the developer,
>practices what he preaches and offers productivity courses as well
>http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/get-focused-multimedia-course/ though
>you won’t need these to work with the Planner. If you do like the program, make sure to
>enter your email at its Bits du Jour page
>http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/achieve-planner-productivity-suite/
>You may be lucky and save a good deal if the discount appears within your trial
>period.
> >As a broader reference, I would say that a PPM (Personal Project Management
>tool) essentially needs to have the following:
> >- Ability to break down work into
>structured individual tasks; any outliner can do this
>- Ability to set date / time
>information for each task and show this on a timeline and/or calendar (possibly via
>syncing with Outlook or Google Calendar)
>- Support for follow-up of the individual
>tasks, i.e. setting completion either as Done/Pending or percentage (I personally
>have never managed to do the latter)
> >Achieve Planner does all of the above. InfoQube
>too (and much more, but the learning curve is significant) as well as other tools
>mentioned here in the past, like Watership Planner.
> >I will also second LM7’s
>comment that the project’s information management is something different and
>better suited for PIMs like UltraRecall or MyInfo.
> >Last but not least, as one
>acquires more tools, it is good to find ways to simplify the actual workflow; I have
>found Leo Babauta’s books and blog http://zenhabits.net/books/ helpful in that
>respect.