Salesforce allows me to track and sort on all sorts of metadata, like "who am I doing this for" and "when did I start" and "what sort of task is it" and "what is the phone number of the person who I am doing this for." Hiveminder does some of this, but not in the same way; part of the reason I'm so tempted by a Salesforce instance is that my brain is already Salesforce-shaped from using it 40+ hours a week for work.
My flat text files have a bunch of different categories at the top (writing, infrastructure, correspondence, random, work, crawl) and then near the bottom a list of day tasks:
MON: - work - cancel cathedral utilities as of 6/1 - bring laptop in for repair - work meeting emails - morning meeting with $PERSON
TUE: - work
WED: - work - 9 AM $CUSTOMER meeting
The tasks in the upper section get time estimates and occasionally status messages, like:
- BLOCKED ON COLO pay for colo (30min)
And sometimes have subtasks in categories:
- house wiki: - wishlist - necessary repairs list - calendar of visitors - list of birds seen - pet care stuff
This works great for me (and is based on what I used to do on graph paper), but while I think it's awesome that people are all "We all live together and don't need infrastructure," I think just eredien and I would benefit from a little more infrastructure here, let alone adding more people to the mix. :)
Google Calendar is awesome but fails my "don't give more data to large corporations" test. If Zimbra talked to Google Calendar so that other people could see my schedule if I ACLed them to it without having to use my Zimbra instance... which it looks like people have done (http://www.unicon.net/node/1300) although hackishly... Hmm. Maybe I do want a zimbra instance...
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Salesforce allows me to track and sort on all sorts of metadata, like "who am I doing this for" and "when did I start" and "what sort of task is it" and "what is the phone number of the person who I am doing this for." Hiveminder does some of this, but not in the same way; part of the reason I'm so tempted by a Salesforce instance is that my brain is already Salesforce-shaped from using it 40+ hours a week for work.
My flat text files have a bunch of different categories at the top (writing, infrastructure, correspondence, random, work, crawl) and then near the bottom a list of day tasks:
MON:
- work
- cancel cathedral utilities as of 6/1
- bring laptop in for repair
- work meeting emails
- morning meeting with $PERSON
TUE:
- work
WED:
- work
- 9 AM $CUSTOMER meeting
The tasks in the upper section get time estimates and occasionally status messages, like:
- BLOCKED ON COLO pay for colo (30min)
And sometimes have subtasks in categories:
- house wiki:
- wishlist
- necessary repairs list
- calendar of visitors
- list of birds seen
- pet care stuff
This works great for me (and is based on what I used to do on graph paper), but while I think it's awesome that people are all "We all live together and don't need infrastructure," I think just
Google Calendar is awesome but fails my "don't give more data to large corporations" test. If Zimbra talked to Google Calendar so that other people could see my schedule if I ACLed them to it without having to use my Zimbra instance... which it looks like people have done (http://www.unicon.net/node/1300) although hackishly... Hmm. Maybe I do want a zimbra instance...