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I'm in a kind of similar position - sole founder, lots of ideas and not a good enough way (at the moment) of keeping track of them. From looking around, OmniFo

I'm in a kind of similar position - sole founder, lots of ideas and not a good enough way (at the moment) of keeping track of them. From looking around, OmniFocus and Basecamp (but Basecamp Light if it existed) would do the job, though bootstrapping I can justify the money for what may or may not work for me. Interested to see what others recommend, if there's anything else to look at, or do I just write a lean requirements/project management app (which I could eat dog-food with and track the app I'm building in the app I'm building :-)

zbuc 14y ago
Don't write your own project management app unless that's what your idea is. IMO. I really like OmniFocus but it's pretty expensive, and you have to purchase separate licenses for the iPhone, iPad, and OS X versions. TaskPaper is popular. I tried it and found it too limiting after getting used to OmniFocus. I really like OmniFocus actually. That's my recommendation for task management software. It's very fast to CTRL+ALT+Space and enter new tasks(whenever you have an idea come to you, just enter it and it will go in your inbox and you can organize it later) and it's easy to keep everything organized. I put almost everything I do in there -- I even have a weekly recurring project to clean my apartment up. Now, OmniFocus has a breaking point -- it's really for personal productivity, it's not a bug tracker, and it's not for collaboration. If you start growing your business and have other people working with you, you'll need something else... but for solo projects and keeping your personal life organized I really like OmniFocus. Edit: oh, yes, for teams http://asana.com/ http://asana.com/ is good. I tried TaskPaper and keeping the document in a Dropbox share -- didn't work too well. The first time we heard "where the hell did my changes go?!" it was time to drop it.
- kfullert 14y ago
  OK, Asana looks pretty much what I was looking for (about the only thing I'd "like" though probably not need is the ability to link tasks (ie Task x is blocked until Task y is complete) Thanks for the tip, I can see this being the answer (for me at least)

zbuc 14y ago

Don't write your own project management app unless that's what your idea is. IMO. I really like OmniFocus but it's pretty expensive, and you have to purchase separate licenses for the iPhone, iPad, and OS X versions. TaskPaper is popular. I tried it and found it too limiting after getting used to OmniFocus. I really like OmniFocus actually. That's my recommendation for task management software. It's very fast to CTRL+ALT+Space and enter new tasks(whenever you have an idea come to you, just enter it and it will go in your inbox and you can organize it later) and it's easy to keep everything organized. I put almost everything I do in there -- I even have a weekly recurring project to clean my apartment up. Now, OmniFocus has a breaking point -- it's really for personal productivity, it's not a bug tracker, and it's not for collaboration. If you start growing your business and have other people working with you, you'll need something else... but for solo projects and keeping your personal life organized I really like OmniFocus. Edit: oh, yes, for teams http://asana.com/ http://asana.com/ is good. I tried TaskPaper and keeping the document in a Dropbox share -- didn't work too well. The first time we heard "where the hell did my changes go?!" it was time to drop it.

kfullert 14y ago
OK, Asana looks pretty much what I was looking for (about the only thing I'd "like" though probably not need is the ability to link tasks (ie Task x is blocked until Task y is complete) Thanks for the tip, I can see this being the answer (for me at least)