What do folks use to manage their 'to do' lists and track time spent on various projects?
Up until now I have used scraps of paper. But I just installed Gnome Time Tracker 2.2.2. ('gnotime') from the debian repository.
This appears to provide all the essential functions, but is, alas, unusable. This is because the drag and drop editing of the project hierarchy behaves unpredictably.
Are there any good usable open source alternatives?
Thanks,
David.
David Studholme PhD Bioinformatics Manager Sainsbury Laboratory Norwich NR4 7UH http://www.ayeaye.tsl.ac.uk/index.php?Itemid=285
At Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:28:23 +0000, David Studholme wrote:
What do folks use to manage their 'to do' lists and track time spent on various projects?
I use Emacs Planner mode.
http://wjsullivan.net/PlannerMode.html
Both the Emacs Wiki and Sacha Chua have a lot to say regarding it:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerMode http://sachachua.com/notebook/wiki/PlannerMode.php
If you're already an Emacs user you'll find that it integrates wonderfully into your current working practices. If not, then you may want to try something else ;-) I used to use KOrganiser which had all the standard features and is fine if you don't mind having to reach for your mouse to control it.
Cheers, Richard
On 29/11/2007, David Studholme david.studholme@sainsbury-laboratory.ac.uk wrote:
What do folks use to manage their 'to do' lists and track time spent on various projects?
Up until now I have used scraps of paper. But I just installed Gnome Time Tracker 2.2.2. ('gnotime') from the debian repository.
This appears to provide all the essential functions, but is, alas, unusable. This is because the drag and drop editing of the project hierarchy behaves unpredictably.
Are there any good usable open source alternatives?
I had the same scraps-of-paper problem. I cobbled together a system involving postgres and php, so I now I can, in my browser, select client, start a session (writes time to db), stop (writes back) and enter detail. In my odd spare moment I'm tying it in with invoicing.
You're welcome to share any code but it's very very bleeding edge and basic!
Jenny
David Studholme wrote:
Up until now I have used scraps of paper.
If you want to make your scraps of paper system virtual, try using Tomboy Notes for Gnome. It sits on your panel allowing you to create post-it notes on your desktop. It works in a wiki-like way linking between notes simply by writing the title of one note in another. There are various other features you might find useful.
I use it primarily for storing things I often forget...
http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/
--Simon
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