I'm afraid to commit

I think the biggest problem with my lack of commitment to a task management tool is that i’m burning out on all of them. I know that Ciara is sick of switching from tool to tool and having to re-enter data all the time. So, i’ve finally committed. And to a tool that i’ve written off so many other times that i’m still amazed that i’m going with it now.

Chandler

I know! Who’d a thunk it, a half-finished, sort-a abandoned product with one of the craziest histories of any recent software that i can think of.

But it does sharing very well. And if you can adjust how you think about task management to fit into the way Chandler thinks about it, it (so far) works quite well.

There are still quite a few admittedly large “warts”. Repeating events are limited to simple yearly, monthly or daily - no 3rd Thursday. This is supported in the software itself, there is just no UI for entering this kind of repeating event. This is something that i can live with, if it means i get a tool that has good sharing abilities.

My last attempt at low-tech task management was using the lightning plugin for Thunderbird. The latest version of the plugin is quite good, with a nice-ish UI. The downfall, especially if you are sharing your calendar, is that, if more then one person is working on it at the same time, you can corrupt your data. Which is what happened to me. Which is why i needed a better server side solution, something a bit more advanced then WebDAV. Thus Chandler. I’m using their free Hub service, but you can download the server and run it yourself if you really want to keep your data local.

Since i’m trying to commit, i’m going to be living with the warts and all of this software, but i will blog about my experiences with it, and how it works out for us over the next weeks and, hopefully, months.