Finding the right PIM. Suggestions please.

Posted by M.Burg
Sep 30, 2010 at 11:48 PM

Hi Chris,

that’s something I’ve been looking for a real long time as well. Yet I havn’t found something which suits my needs.
What I also would like to have is to calculate my time budget (scheduling and used time).

But there is some software which comes close:
- Daisho has visual planning (I’ve talked in another topic about it), but for me it is not well enough in task organizing.

- Achive Planner - has some planning capabilities in a calender view. As far as I remember the tasks you move around in calender view are not synced with your general task plan, it’s just an addition. Good planning features for the tasks, yet I don’t like the interface at all.

- watership planner - as someone told before - looks very good, has almost all the feature needed, yet a bit too sophisticated since you can also define your vision, roles etc.
It adjusts your weekly time plan (visually!) dynamicly - which means when you didn’t finish one task the one day it will move to the next day. And of course you can move tasks on your own :) It is quite expensive. But I gues I would have bought it - because it is the only solution combining Projectplanning, Timeplanning and Calenderview! - if it wouldn’t have so many bugs. After trying it out for just a few minutes some columns of the goal view disappeared forever. When switching to role view it crashes every time. And so on…very sad…

I don’t understand why there isn’t anythink on the market - when using computers for task planning instead of using paper calenders, piece of paper and a pen the one advantage is in combining a taks view with a calender view (and at best: with some time budget planning).

So the solution I use consists of diefferent elements:
- Planning of Projects in todolist - I have a nice list and overview of all projects. With the help of the plugins I have a calender and a gantt view. Yet without moving taks around, and the views are not really perfect.
- Daily tasks in a GTD-Programm - just a plain task list to know what to do now.
- weekly planning - sometimes in thunderbird lightning, most of the time in a moleskin planner.

I’ve been researching a long time and I am afraid to tell you that you have to use different tools to achieve your goal. Or reduce the wanted feature set.
But if you find anything let me/us know!

(Sorry for any bad english…)
Greetings
M.Burg