Task managers

Posted by Graham Rhind
Apr 21, 2007 at 08:18 AM

Progress report!

I should have mentioned in my specs that the program needs to run on Windows, and really I am looking for simplicity (hence “task manager” rather than “PIM” or “project manager”).

I tried PlanPlus, but it demanded that IE be made my default browser - a sacrifice I wasn’t willing to make. It is slick software, but far too complex for my daily needs. And not cheap!

MasterList - this one didn’t last long on my PC either. When I put a task in for today, it invariably rescheduled it for tomorrow. This may be a bug, or it may be that the program is controlling my tasks according to its sets of algorithms, like MLO, which doesn’t fit my way of working.

Support: no reply from TaskPilot Pro or ITSD about my feedback. More response than you can shake a stick at from Priorganizer! John Wood responded to all my e-mails and resolved the bugs reported immediately, even though he was on the road. However, Priorganizer handles recurring tasks in the same way as UR, and that’s a bit of a deal breaker for me at the moment.

AchievePlanner is still to be tested, though I think it will prove too complex and project-orientated for my needs.

I downloaded Ecco Pro out of curiosity to see what the fuss is about. I don’t think it will suit me, but I am curious about why nobody has picked up its development or made a carbon copy of it if it is so good.

I continue to waver, but at the moment the options look like having to have recurring tasks in Outlook; long term and customer-based tasks in UR; and short term, spur of the moment bits and pieces in ITSD, because I can so easily drag bits of text to its collector.

Doubtless the situation will change!

Graham