Timeto PIM

Posted by Graham Rhind
Sep 30, 2007 at 08:09 AM

dan7000 wrote:
>I tried it faithfully for about a month. It never scheduled things the way I wanted it
>to, and the lack of workable Outlook integration made me do double entry of to-do’s.
>But if you don’t use Outlook and like the results of the TimeTo scheduler, then I think
>it has a ton of potential.
> >I recommend Taskline for dynamic scheduling within
>Outlook. http://www.taskline.com

Strangely enough, my reasons for uninstalling Taskline were similar to yours for uninstalling TimeTo. I don’t like (or need) software that controls me - I need to control the software. I find Taskline just too dictatorial. Being contrary, I am keeping TimeTo during my testing under a tight rein so that, basically, I do my own scheduling. That works for me.

Finding a good task manager has been a real problem for me. Software I’ve tried has either been unsupported and/or unstable, or just not up to the job. I have been using the Zoot32 beta as a task manager, but up to beta 26 (I note that beta 27 has just arrived) it has had some really stubborn bugs which have caused problems. Also, Zoot, like other programs, just piles up tasks, so a glance doesn’t tell you whether the tasks will take 1 hour or 10 to complete. And Zoot has no arithmetic abilities to overcome this.

What I like about TimeTo is that it shows the amount of time a task is planned to take, and also integrates this with calendar appointments. Its Outlook 2007 integration is, however, as buggy as a termite mound, and it doesn’t allow automatic re-creation of tasks upon completion (as would be expected in software that regards its strong point as scheduling, though it does allow manual re-creation of tasks), being a bit of a nuisance with recurring tasks with notes. I think I may have to withdraw back to Zoot until something better comes along ... :-(

Unless anybody has any better ideas?

Graham