Task And Time Management

Permalink by:Issac Kelly Thu Jan 29th, 2009 View Comments

I'm tinkering with how to manage my tasks and my time.

I'd sort of like a system where I can name all of my tasks, and then sort out into a couple of different columns, really, a cross between rescue time, gmail, and tweetdeck, if that makes any sense.

Things that I'd like to be able to do:

Name a Project, and list the 'next task' as well as a list of all tasks associated with the project.

For any given task, I'd like to be able to have tags like 'location' 'waiting on' 'time estimate' 'due', typical stuff.
I'd like a timer, one that counts up when I hit start, and when I hit stop, I assign the time to task(s).

How do you manage your time and tasks? A fair amount of this functionality is included with fogbugz, but the interface for it is clunky, as it's really only made to be a bug tracker and software planner, not a general task/time manager.

What would help you to do this? What sorts of input/output mechanisims would it need? Reports, etc?

I'd like to make this happen, and I'm willing to do it open-source if I get some help.