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What software do you use to look after tasks/jobs?

We have bug tracking software but actually I find it over kill in some sitations. I want to track a very simple one off small job (ongoing maintenance type work) and set reminders for those job.

Anyone have any suggestions?
 
If it's just me I have a huge whiteboard in my office that I stick everything up on :) It's great as it is fast and means I am not losing paper/ keeping files/ docs open all the time. If collaborating, I just use a Google Spreadsheet that my other team members can see.
 
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Bes said:
If it's just me I have a huge whiteboard in my office that I stick everything up on :) It's great as it is fast and means I am not losing paper/ keeping files/ docs open all the time. If collaborating, I just use a Google Spreadsheet that my other team members can see.
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I manage a few other people, so I need someway of creating a work diary for multiple different projects, tasks and people.

At the moment I use Google Calendar, Google docs and a bug tracker system. I would really like to stream line the process. Not sure if something like this would work: http://hitask.com/
 
Might be worth taking a look at JIRA, we use it at work to manage out development projects, not sure if it is suited towards what you need.
 
We've been using Basecamp for quite a while now and while it's good, it's not quite advanced enough for our needs.

With our latest project, we've been giving Liquid Planner a go and while it doesn't look the nicest, it has the features we need. Does have a steeper learning curve though.
 
Used Basecamp in the past which worked well for me but didn't cope so well when we really started to hammer it (10+ projects at once). We've been using ProWorkflow for the last few months and it's been working really well for us, it's not the prettiest but does what we need and they're much more on the ball than Basecamp about adding features. I used Basecamp for a year and felt the developers were more interested in selling me addons than developing the main product.

Also I agree 100% with Tripnologist that the Basecamp alternatives (excluding the Basecamp clones) do have a bit of a learning curve so it's worth asking about the training options/costs to get everyone up to speed, some of the other products we looked at wanted more than the yearly cost just to get us started.

Could also be worth trying Freecamp if budget is an issue, not quite sure how it will be supported but free is free!
 
Yep. You can set-up start/due dates when you create the tickets (for automatic Gantt chart creation) and when people sign them of they can type in the amount of time it took them (at least I'm fairly sure you can).

Here's Redmine on Redmine's own site showing a list of tickets:
http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/issues

infact, the whole site is actually Redmine run from what I can tell - the Wiki, repository, forums etc are all built in to it.
 
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Yep. You can set-up start/due dates when you create the tickets (for automatic Gantt chart creation) and when people sign them of they can type in the amount of time it took them (at least I'm fairly sure you can).

Here's Redmine on Redmine's own site showing a list of tickets:
http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/issues

infact, the whole site is actually Redmine run from what I can tell - the Wiki, repository, forums etc are all built in to it.
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I've zero experience with Ruby, do you host your own installation or do you use a third party ?
 
Izi said:
I've zero experience with Ruby, do you host your own installation or do you use a third party ?
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We run it ourselves, which on Windows was a pretty fun task. If you run it on Linux with Apache it's a lot easier from what I gather.

I've never touched Ruby either apart from getting this set up.
 
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