October 20, 2010 at 15:43Three troubles of modern task managers
Yesterday, during the discussion of the project, he formulated three troubles of modern task management applications. I invite you to discuss them.
I have Things - the most awesome personal task manager that you can buy today. My girlfriend has Things. My brother has Things. My colleagues have Things. See, we all have the same system? But none of us has the opportunity to create a task in the project and transfer it to someone else. We do this in some other way (phone, email, whatever).
Such a jamb deprived of online tools, such as Basecamp. But we all must be registered in the same system, because between Basecamp does not know how to communicate, say, with Megaplan or Teamer. I think that no system can do this. Unless, expensive tools specially dyed for this, such as Jira.
Every task management tool I met tried to act as a project tracker or even a means for project planning. In addition, almost all of them imposed their vision on the correct process of managing tasks and projects.
And I just need to have one place in which all the things that I need to do lie. I want to organize it on my own. So, as it is convenient for me, and not the system developer.
The only fixed thing that should be is a folder (or something of this kind) with the name “Inbox”, which contains all the tasks that I have not seen. And even that, this is my personal opinion, which should not be suitable for everyone.
My most common payment scheme is for 1 user per unit of time. For example, 14 bucks per user per month, 300 euros per user per year. Even for desktop applications. Less common are schemes that limit the number of users, projects, or "milestones" (milestone).
I don’t argue, since such schemes live and someone pays this money, that’s how it is needed. But because of this version, “without any restrictions whatsoever”, some completely unrealistic money costs.
Very few free and free systems. Apparent among them, it seems, is not at all. At least I could not find a single one.
I met in a recent post here a quote that I want to give.
1. Inability to transfer (delegate and track) a task to an arbitrary executor
I have Things - the most awesome personal task manager that you can buy today. My girlfriend has Things. My brother has Things. My colleagues have Things. See, we all have the same system? But none of us has the opportunity to create a task in the project and transfer it to someone else. We do this in some other way (phone, email, whatever).
Such a jamb deprived of online tools, such as Basecamp. But we all must be registered in the same system, because between Basecamp does not know how to communicate, say, with Megaplan or Teamer. I think that no system can do this. Unless, expensive tools specially dyed for this, such as Jira.
2. Complexity and imposed methodology
Every task management tool I met tried to act as a project tracker or even a means for project planning. In addition, almost all of them imposed their vision on the correct process of managing tasks and projects.
And I just need to have one place in which all the things that I need to do lie. I want to organize it on my own. So, as it is convenient for me, and not the system developer.
The only fixed thing that should be is a folder (or something of this kind) with the name “Inbox”, which contains all the tasks that I have not seen. And even that, this is my personal opinion, which should not be suitable for everyone.
3. Price
My most common payment scheme is for 1 user per unit of time. For example, 14 bucks per user per month, 300 euros per user per year. Even for desktop applications. Less common are schemes that limit the number of users, projects, or "milestones" (milestone).
I don’t argue, since such schemes live and someone pays this money, that’s how it is needed. But because of this version, “without any restrictions whatsoever”, some completely unrealistic money costs.
3.1. Free systems
Very few free and free systems. Apparent among them, it seems, is not at all. At least I could not find a single one.
Interesting quote
I met in a recent post here a quote that I want to give.
... you need a fast and easy task management system that does not require you to be meticulous in describing a new task. You must open it and close it within 30 seconds in order to unload the thought without distracting from the current task. You can return to her later.