Task management worries

Task management worries

Postby amuzen » 06 Feb 2010, 15:29

Short version: I need a simple and efficient solution that allows me to put my task list online so that people can view it. Adding and closing tasks need to be as easy as possible or I'll go nuts since I have lots of tasks in my list. Any suggestions?

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Tasks, my current offline task manager


Long version: I currently use a program called Tasks for managing my tasks because it's almost a perfect solution for my style of development. I like to keep my tasks small and simple, so much that a simple sentence is enough to describe the task and it usually takes an hour or two to complete a task. This works really well for me because it's easy to work for short periods at time whenever you feel like it.

However, Tasks is an offline program. I recognize that potential contributors (and online stalkers) would find a task list like mine interesting, hence I'd to put the list online. The solutions I have at hand currently are geared towards much larger tasks and far more infrequent editing than my working model. For example, creating and then closing a single ticket in Trac takes lots of clicking and page loads. Typing stuff into a wiki would make it a bit easier to add tasks, but "completing" and managing them would be annoying. TaskFreak looks a bit shinier than Trac but seems to work the same way in practice.

So, how do others manage their tasks? Does anyone know a good service that might work better for my working habits? Are there any opportunities to benefit the community by choosing a certain solution?
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Re: Task management worries

Postby TheAncientGoat » 06 Feb 2010, 16:01

http://www.taskfreak.com/ Looks pretty good... Doesn't integrate with any offline clients though, and I've never used it myself, but it looks decent and supports multiple users..

What about the SourceForge hosted default one... forgot what it was called.. Oh, hahaha, its TaskFreak too XD
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Re: Task management worries

Postby Sindwiller » 06 Feb 2010, 16:18

The old Trac and its ticket system has proven itself worthy in my opinion. Tickets can be filed in as tasks, bugs, etc.
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Re: Task management worries

Postby qubodup » 06 Feb 2010, 16:26

Many projects have a TODO text file in their source repository.

A simple link to a web-accessible version of it will make it easy to share it.

PS: I use google tasks for my own needs.
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Re: Task management worries

Postby KIAaze » 03 May 2010, 18:53

I use remember the milk privately: http://www.rememberthemilk.com
tasque has support for it: http://live.gnome.org/Tasque

Here's a good comparison of online TODO lists: http://www.toodledo.com/info/compare.php

And if it's for project management (bugs, tasks, etc), something like trac or bugzilla might indeed be more appropriate.

trac has wiki + bug/task tracker + repository browser, so it's pretty good.
Unfortunately, it still seems to lack anti-spam features and account activation by admin last time I checked. (I tried configuring it lately and couldn't get mail sending to work, but it is supposed to have auto-registration + mail notification via plugins.)

P.S.: A pretty fun TODO list: http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/ :D
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