I’m definitely a list person. I find that unless I keep things in order then my productivity goes downhill as I sit and wonder what I’m supposed to be doing rather than actually doing it. Recently I’ve been reading David Allen’s excellent “Getting things Done” book and have been keeping all my tasks and projects in order with the recently released OminFocus. This works really well for day to day things, but isn’t so great at managing client projects as I’m the only one that can see the tasks and it doesn’t provide me with detailed enough information when it comes to billing.
I’ve been using ProWorkFlow for a couple of years for managing projects, CVSDude.com for hosting Subversion offsite, and occasionally Lighthouse Pro for issue tracking. Each one works quite well although I do find myself digging around in ProWorkFlow trying to get out the information that I want. The real problem though is that there’s too many systems. Surely there must be one product that can do all this…
…well, I could use Trac but I just don’t find it user friendly, so there is no way I could get a client to be enthusiastic about it.
So after some more research and reading a blog post by Peter Bell, I too thought I’d try to Unfuddle my projects. So far it’s going well, and I’m really liking the interface. Much more user friendly. I have projects, milestones, issues, notepad (wiki), and a subversion repository all in one place. I can add other developers and clients, and it has a nice shiny “Web 2.0″ interface. Let’s hope it continues to shine.
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