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Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Ben Yoskovitz — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:27:34 -0000

Jeff - you're right - most of the time complex applications are not required. AgileGraph looks cool.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting! Hope to see you around.

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Jeff Carpenter — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:13:57 -0000

I’ve managed many developers on multi-million dollar software projects, but simple tools like BaseCamp (www.basecamphq.com ), AgileGraph ( www.agilegraph.com ), and Spreadsheets can help tame even the largest projects.

In fact, I developed and bootstrapped AgileGraph just for that purpose.

Many times I didn’t need complicated tools like MS Project, I just needed to find out which tasks were behind / complete / ahead, too costly, etc.

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Ben Yoskovitz — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:56:23 -0000

John - how do you use Gmail for to-dos/priorities, etc.? Or for "things to look at in the future"?

Do you email yourself information then label it for later?

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

John Smith — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:03:58 -0000

Very simple. Gmail.
Professionnaly backed-up (so I don't have to worry about my hard drive crashing).
Accessible from everywhere.
Easily searchable.

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Ben Yoskovitz — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:21:26 -0000

Drew - thanks for the tip, I'll take a look soon!

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Drew McLellan — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:27:14 -0000

Ben,

Boy, DO I hear you with this. But, I have found a software (originally it was to synch with my Palm) that really helps me manage lots of information, passwords, URLs, credit card #s, frequent flyer #s -- you get the idea.

Check out splashID.com

It has really saved my hide more than once!

Best,

Drew

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Ben Yoskovitz — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:07:39 -0000

Thank you for the suggestions. I have to take some time, think about how I want to do this and then experiment with some tools that can help!

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Carolyn Manning — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:41:04 -0000

For all of my reminders, ideas, brainstorms, etc Microsoft Works works. I named one document 'scrap paper' and use it every day. If something needs its own document, transfer is nothing more than cut and paste. Otherwise, stuff gets deleted when I'm finished with it. The calendar in my mailbox is wonderful for sending myself email reminders.

Websites to visit later go into my bookmarks in a folder marked websites to visit later.

The address book that came in my computer works for passwords and contact info. Use the business phone and/or home phone fields for passwords and/or usernames.

These aren't incredibly sophisticated, but they work well.

Carolyn

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Ed Carvalho — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:57:59 -0000

While I can't speak from direct experience with the sync functionality (funnel all I can to the small tablet), 2007 suppossedly handles this real well...
Lots of info @ link below:
http://blogs.msdn.com/chris...

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Ben Yoskovitz — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:33:26 -0000

I've thought about trying OneNote. I think I even installed it at one point...

But there's no web-based version to synchronize with for other computers/access remotely is there?

And thanks for commenting Ed!

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Ed Carvalho — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:30:53 -0000

Microsoft OneNote (2007 version Trial Avail) is my 'everything bucket'... A real -why didn't they think of this sooner??? tool...

Slick-ness doubles for Outlook users: Seamless task / to do list & reminders integration

Holy-cow Trifecta: When used on a take it everywhere small Tablet PC (Samsung Q1 in my case)

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Chris Cree — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:54:13 -0000

Ben, I'm with you. I'm getting to the point where I have a ridiculous number of passwords to keep track of. That one alone would be a big help for me.

But getting everything else under one roof would be great. I hope someone out there will share a great application.

Re: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

Char — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:48:53 -0000

You should see my desk!

Anyhow, the best tip I have for keeping track of passwords etc is to set up a master sheet in Excel. I have one for our personal stuff and one for my business. I print out one copy, put it in a protector sleeve and keep in a three ring binder on my desk. The other copy goes in the safe. I do the same for keeping track of all the FTP info for my sites and client sites.