Task Management
Every single day I use the online app Remember the milk to manage my tasks. My boss calls it my Moo list, if you look at it you will see why. The beauty of it is that if someone sends you a task by email you can forward to your list and the title of the email is the task name, the content is the detail. You can print out the list for your monday morning meetings, its great. Its also based on simple priority rules. It just makes sense. The problem is its a website, while you can keep your tasks private there are still a few security niggles. This morning I found an open source alternative that can be installed anywhere. Even your apple laptop or your xp box, also the local kids will give it Kudos as it uses Ruby on Rails. Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like. It can be run on any platform on which Ruby can be installed, including Mac OS X, Windows XP and Linux. Tracks is Open Source, free and licensed under the GNU GPL. Have a look at 10 tracks