Hierarchical Task List Management with Tasks Jr.
by Paul Flyer
Tasks Jr. is a web-based task manager that uses hierarchical organization to manage personal or professional to-do lists.
Tasks Jr. is the free version of Tasks. Tasks is developed by Alex King who maybe more known for his work with WordPress Themes and Feedlounge. The thing I love about Alex King’s work (especially with Feedlounge) is his emphasis on friendly user interfaces. Tasks Jr is no exception, it is very easy to use.
Tasks Jr is installed either on a local pc web server or on your own hosted web server (like WordPress). This distinguishes it from other to-do list services which are predominantly hosted solutions. While the thought of installing an application is daunting to beginners it is not difficult. I have posted some tips on installing it. If you are able to install WordPress, you can install Tasks Jr.
There are two main items I like about Tasks Jr.
- Everything in Tasks Jr is hierarchical. Create your own main categories and have as many subtasks as is necessary. Subtasks can have subtasks, and those subtasks can have subtasks. Thus, the organizational possibilities are just about infinite. This kind of flexibility rarely exists in other task management programs.
- The use of icalender format via phpcalendar. There are several hosted solutions which state they integrate with ical solutions, but I have found them kludgey at best and very limiting. Tasks uses phpcalender directly and it is easy to get up and running.
I would definitely recommended giving Tasks Jr. shot. I think you may find it easier and more powerful than a lot of the more highly touted task managers. Upgrading to the full fledged Tasks is priced at a reasonable $30.
An enterprise version, Tasks Pro, is also available for multiple teams which enables collaboration.
Visit King Design for a complete description and comparison of features.
[tags]tasks, tasks+jr, king, to-do+lists, project+management, task+management[/tags]
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August 11th, 2006 at 3:19 pm