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On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:48:27 +0000 Roland Tarver wrote: > Hi Folks > > At the moment I have many uni projects (essays etc) which each have > their various milestones and other critical dates and tasks. I need to > get *very* organised and manage my time well. Can anyone recommend any > floss project management software please? > > I noticed TaskJuggler, but have not installed it. Looks a little over > kill for what I need (since I am a team of 1 - lol)..... > > Many thanks > best wishes > roly :-) Pen, paper & calendar... No, seriously. IME 90% of people using "project management" tools do so for one reason - to produce pretty Gantt charts for their bosses to admire. Of the other 10%, 90% of them spend way too much time messing about with it so it reflects "what's really happening" and not enough time doing to bread-and-butter work of managing their projects. That leaves 1% of people using project management tools who seem to recognise that it's a useful tool, but it is *only* a tool to *aid* management. If you are trying to manage your time for Uni more effectively, to-do lists and calendars, but make *certain* they are somewhere prominent so that you cannot easily hide from them. I use Google Calendar and the tasks tool within it, and I have them on my iGoogle homepage - I spend enough time in a browser, and enough time searching for something that chances are I will see the calendar and task list 1000 times per day. I also have it all synced up to my phone. I have made it so I can't really escape from it. Grant. (But if you're looking for a tool to produce Gantt charts and manage resources, etc, then Gnome's Planner (http://live.gnome.org/Planner) is pretty good IMO.) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq