For you, maybe your planing just lives in Milestones Pro. Project, have ways to productively keep track of actuals and the knock-on changes in dates/costs/deadlines. That can take the output from your Omni Focus to create a “visualization”.īut take care and think through how you will keep it alive. Yes, it needs Windows, but who cares? You have a business to run. Surely that data can be munged to import into any of the project schedules (but I would not recommend it even if easy for visualization) or one of those visualization tools which may work.īottom line: if you are looking for a tool, start with taking a look at Milestones Professional from Kidasa. I don’t see how to get the project logic (successors and predecessors), but maybe that doesn’t matter for visualization. You can get out of OmniFocus task name, status, start date, due date, duration, etc. I notice that with OmniFocus (which I use extensively for my personal “keep track of stuff” tool) you can export to a CSV. The big problem then is feeding these apps and keeping them up to date. But with VMWare and Parallels who cares? (Some are extremely beautiful and often senior management “loves and expects” them without realising the cost/time to produce). There are a number of project visualisation tools out there… probably more on the Windows platform than on Mac. I don’t have full visibility of the plethora of tools (web-based and PC-based) that might visualise how you want to visualise, so I can’t offer a list of ideas. I’m not at all sure you are talking about your “stuff” being real projects.ĭavid, from what you indicate, you are not going to be happy with using a professional Cost and Schedule tool to “keep track” of stuff. investments with a beginning, middle, and end. What professional Cost and Schedule Engineers do for “projects”, i.e. For their intended purpose they are fantastic and a great tool for computing schedules (including Critical Path to allow milestones to be targeted), costs (to allow budgets), resource planning, progress tracking and measurement, Earned Value Analysis, … (the list is long). I have long experience these project management tools, especially Project (for small and huge projects). Visualisation of activities and “computing” a project plan/schedule/cost estimate–like OmniPlan, Microsoft Project, Primavera–are different. (Can you tell I’m at a loss as to what I should do next?!) Thinking it through in my head, it’s possible it could help me visualize well enough to make it work. Of course, you may be right - maybe Trello WOULD work. Omnifocus is great for keeping track of the tasks - but I am to the point where I’m having a hard time even remembering what all the tasks are. There are more things like that, all involved in the one overall “project” of football broadcasts. I know the date of the first game, but I need to line up staffing, finish my ads, test my equipment and make sure all the technical stuff is in place. I’ve never used Asana, so maybe I’ll look at that.Īs an example, when the high school football season begins, I’ll be livestreaming video broadcasts of the local high school’s games. (For example, I have a board where I track advertisers who I need to renew for the 2018-19 year.) I think I need something a little more robust for what I’m thinking. I am using Trello for some limited things. Oh, and I did trigger the OmniPlan trial - but it expired before I could test it out because I had too much going on at the time and didn’t realize it when I started the trial. Can anyone help me out with a recommendation? I’m willing to pay if it’s useful for a single person - but if I’m going to be using 1/10 of its capability, I don’t want to spend that much. (For example, the “winter scoreboard” is sponsored by a different business than the “spring scoreboard,” so I have to change that out.ĭoes anyone have a suggestion for something that would let me visualize all the things I have going on over the course of the year? I’ve looked at OmniPlan, but man, it’s pricey. I have advertisers to keep track of, and some of my content is seasonal, and based on whether I have a sponsor. I publish a local magazine six times per year, I publish material to a related website all year long, and I do some online broadcasts of local sports. I use OmniFocus to manage all the tasks I have to tackle - but I am looking for something that will help me map out a timeline of several projects. I’m juggling a lot of different stuff in my business, and it’s mostly just me.
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