Finding the right PIM. Suggestions please.

Posted by Chris Drontheim
Oct 1, 2010 at 12:31 PM

Hello,

thank you for your replies. @M. Burg: I’m sorry for any bad english too. The urge to be organized seems to be a typical german obsession ;-).
“Agena at Once”, one of you mentioned, has indeed the features close to my needs. But it seems a bit buggy and has one huge drawback: you can accidentally drag a supertask to the calendar (and it’s subtask too). In order to prevent confusion, I wish to view and arrange only the the nodes of a task-tree which are having no other child-nodes. I consider to write that little beast on my own. That will be no fancy achievement with bells and whistles. But it could do the job. I’m only able to script some vba-stuff in excel. There are some code-fragments that looks promising too. Though, is anybody interested in joining this project? We will hide it, if a real programmer come along ;-)

M.Burg wrote:
>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
>