Best of Breed Task Management

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This page very much a work in progress. I have a bit more in my head and on paper. Hopefully I can remember this is where it goes as I process through.

Toodledo has lots of good stuff, including dev API.

"Tasky"? Probably taken.

From TaskJuggler:

You have a number of tasks that can be completed at a given point in the project. Within the set of tasks, however, there is no hard dependency graph. Something like:

task someStuff "stuff to do" {
  start 2009-10-31
  allocate me

  task prep "prep work" { 
    length 4h 
  }
  task aTask "some work" {
    depends !prep
    effort 2h
  }
  task anotherTask "some other work" {
    depends !prep
    effort 4h
  }
}

The key to making the above work is to use the effort attribute to describe the pooled task. Using length or duration will cause TJ to silently fail to schedule the tasks because it interprets those as hard requirements. I.e., suppose all tasks used length, then TJ would think that both aTask and anotherTask start when prep ends and must be finished within the indicated amount of time. They would necessarily overlap, and with only one resource, one would fail to be scheduled.

effort is interpreted differently, however and will be handled as intended.