[TriLUG] Life management -- project management? (Brian McCullough)

[David Parrish]

> Folks,
> I am looking at different ways of handling all of the ToDos in my life,
> not just the flow of an individual project.
> Perhaps a tool aimed at project management might do the job, but are there tools that you like to use to collect all of the different threads of your lives?
> Looking through my Debian / Ubuntu "available" list, I see gpe-todo and
> devtodo, along with a few project management tools.
>
> Any bright ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian

Brian,

I've been using Taskwarrior for about a year and been pretty happy
with it.  It looks like it might be similar to devtodo.  The only
thing that I wish I could do with Taskwarrior is sync some tasks to my
Google Calendar, so that my wife can see what I will be doing.  Maybe
I just don't know how to set that up.

I use Google Calendars to remind me of time sensitive meetings.  This
is nice for me because it will remind me about 30 minutes before in
case I have forgotten.  I don't know of an open source alternative.

For business I have been using Redmine manage all the projects, tasks
and time tracking.  We also sponsored the creation of a Contracts
module (http://www.redmine.org/plugins/redmine_contracts_with_time_tracking)
which helps us manage contracts with clients.

When I'm working on a project and an idea pops in my head, I just keep
a markdown list of random thoughts so that I don't lose my flow.  I'll
later go back to the markdown list and read through it to see if I
should follow up on any of those ideas.

I hope that helps!
David