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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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 - in the worst case,...Submitted by Cpu_Modern on February 10, 2007 - 6:53pm.
awe;8033 wrote:
- in the worst case, project data is scattered across tasks, calender events and the Memo. Unfortunately, it's not possible to link items together on the Palm. All in all a nice system. Make sure you update it frequently! 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: 1) Each project is a task. You attach a memo to the task. This is possible in plain vanilla palm. If the project has a deadline, you just add that deadline to the task like you seem to do anyway. If you want to see your tasks in calendar view (on the palm desktop you can anyway), just duplicate, as long as you have the due dates in the task/memo, nothing is lost. 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. 3) You can use the category field for something entirely different and "tag" your projects in the memo. For example you could write "< » POSTED IN:
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