Best PIM for project management?

Posted by Hugh
Apr 23, 2012 at 09:21 AM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Hugh wrote:
>>I’ve looked for this
>>extensively and I’ve found several half-there
>alternatives, such as Pagico.
> >Can you tell me what’s missing from Pagico in that
>regard? I’m quite interested as it is cross-platform.
> >

To be fair to the software, my experience was mainly with version 4, and I see that it’s now up to version 5.3 (and the website has also been upgraded, which was necessary). I liked its timeline presentation, but for some functions the interface was too busy. Some actions were over-complicated or impossible: for example, as far as I can remember, contacts couldn’t be directly imported from the Apple Address Book (whereas, for example, in Merlin they can). I seem to remember that setting up a project itself was unduly complicated; I imagine that has been improved. Most fundamentally, the application didn’t have quite enough project management features for me; it couldn’t tell me, for example, where the slack would be, or, other than by visual inspection, where “violations” might occur.

Process 3, from Jumsoft, is another “half-there” very simple Mac project management application I also looked at. There’s clearly a perceived market for such tools, but on the Mac I haven’t seen anything as developed as Achieve Planner on the PC (or InfoCube or Watership Planner, neither of which I’ve used).