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Keeping track of projects
awe | Feb 5 2007
Hi everybody, I'm new here, so I hope I'm in the right forum. I've got the following problem: I'm a student in audio engineering and after my diploma I want to go to film school. So right now, I'm pretty busy with creative projects. In fact, I'm kinda overloaded; I've got school projects and papers, commissions, and a whole lot of my own projects that I have to complete in order to qualify for film school. So it's a pretty inmanageable mix... So what I need, basically, is a system to keep track of all my current projects, i.e. what I have to do on which project, the progress and, if available, a deadline. I don't want any fancy applications, all I'm working with is iCal and my Palm. I've found that the Memos in Palm are a good starting point, but I'm having a little trouble organising it all. Anybody got ideas? I'd appreciate it. Alex 9 Comments
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 All in all a nice...Submitted by awe on February 11, 2007 - 4:58am.
Cpu_Modern;8067 wrote: All in all a nice system. Make sure you update it frequently! Thank you. And yes, updating is crucial, but that applies to most systems. To be honest, I dread it ;) Quote: Regarding the scattered project info, I think you can avoid that. I have palm OS 5 and there it can work with your system like this: What a brilliant idea! I'm almost ashamed I didn't think of it myself. It even solves the problem that Memos sync with Palm Desktop while everything else syncs with iCal. Wonderful! Now I can even manage my projects with iCal, sweet! (Yes. I'm excited.) Thanks! Quote: 2) Multiple categories: once you have set up your projects as tasks you can assign priorities. Just think of priorities as another colum of categories. Yes, I seldom make use of the priority field anyway. But I even thought about making a general "projects" category without the various subcategories. After using it for a while, it seems a bit overorganised and it messes up the menu. But we'll see... Quote: 3) You can use the category field for something entirely different and "tag" your projects in the memo. For example you could write "< I was thinking about something similar, only with the tags in the Memo (for the reasons mentioned above). It seems that all pieces come together finally. And if I can combine my system someday with the templates of DB6 that emk mentioned, I'm close to a perfect project management :) » POSTED IN:
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