Task managers - what should they be able to do?

Posted by Graham Rhind
Mar 31, 2008 at 01:50 PM

Thanks for the inputs up to now! Just some responses in the meantime:

>Susanne wrote:
>I seldom have a task that does not involve other people, either I need something from them, or they are waiting for me to deliver.
Therefore I would add assigning tasks to other people (if possible a contact from outlook or so) and also a (user defined) assignment type (waiting for, deliver to, contact, etc.).

Absolutely. As I work on my own I tend to forget the poor souls who have to take other people into account :-)

>Chris Thompson wrote:
>I honestly think “GTD” is a liability

I agree entirely! I wrote in an Amazon review of the book that I thought the system flawed and only applicable to certain people in certain circumstances.

>Manfred wrote:
>You probably looked at Agenda at Once. See http://www.agendaatonce.com/features.html

Agenda at Once comes very close, but there’s a bug which stops recurring tasks from recreating themselves in the current version (1.2.3 I believe), which the developer says will be corrected in the next release.

Jack Crawford wrote:
>An interesting new arrival in the Outlook GTD market is Foresight (at http://www.enhanceyouroutlook.com).

It does look interesting, though I dislike greatly software which is sold on a subscription basis and ties you in to your investment. I also have a problem with using Outlook as the basis of task management mainly because of its strange behaviour in deleting an associated e-mail when deleting a task. I know the task can be marked as completed and not deleted, but this stuffs the task manager full of completed tasks which can never be deleted. Strange and utterly annoying.

Cassius wrote:
>Here’s one you probably have not looked at: myTasks (http://www.kingstairs.com).

Yes, I tried that (having used JotNotes myself many years ago). I can’t remember why I rejected it - I have a feeling recurring tasks aren’t supported, though don’t quote me on that.

Graham