LeaderTask - Alternative to Outlook! I once asked a friend of mine what is the best organizer? He said, "Microsoft Outlook, of course". Then he thought a bit and added, "The most popular one, anyway." On the contrary popularity is not the key issue for me. And since I have to record down (or keep in mind) a plenty in my work, I decided to appropriate it more seriously. I have studied a portion organizers and schedulers. LeaderTask from the Almeza convention has turned outside to be the most appropriate and convenient one for me. I will not compare it with all organizers, on the other hand only with the most popular one - Microsoft Outlook. No doubt Microsoft Outlook is a high-quality software product, however LeaderTask outdoes it in some things. Though Outlook is bigger in some other things. I will enumerate all these parameters in this article. So... LeaderTask advantages. 1. Separate object groups. There are different types of objects defined in LeaderTask. These
include: projects, tasks, notes. Projects in LeaderTask mean those things that have period limits. Something specific results from a project being completed. A task in LeaderTask is the description of what should be done in order to complete a project (project steps). Notes are chaotic records that can be assigned to projects and separate tasks (they may also deal with a contact/category/time, etc.). Notes serve as a convenient tool for taking down separate thoughts that can be useful for completing a project or a task. A project may contain distinct tasks. For example, the "Writing an article" project may involve the following: "Studying materials", "Writing a draft", "Sending it to the editor", "Correcting the article". The result of the project is an article. That is, something large is split into smaller parts, which is very convenient to use. Besides, every project has the following properties: a name, a crowd (logical, the one the project belongs to), a c
ontact (the list of project participants), a lifetime period (the interval the project will be completed within), notes (comments to the project). You can filter tasks by these properties (single away tasks from the list of tasks). I will dwell on filtering a bit later. Each task can contain subtasks. For example, the "Studying materials" task may contain the following subtasks: "Visit the library", "View material on the website", "View advertising materials". Any task has parameters (tags) that can be also used for filtering. These include: "Projects", "Contacts", "Categories", "Calendar". Outlook has nothing like this - no different types of objects are defined in it. There are no separate projects, tasks, notes - there are only equal tasks. It funds that notes (occasional thoughts) will be in one list, which will constitute searching for a particular indication afterwards more difficult. It is completely unacceptable for a person who values time. 2. Tree-like t
asks. Tasks in LeaderTask are arranged in the form of a tree, which is achieved due to the task hierarchy (splitting tasks into subtasks). It allows you to classify tasks, combine them into one project (or into a task of a higher level). This system you get tasks that are not scatterred, nevertheless strictly structured. The tree-like structure allows you to see the heirarchy and understand what tasks belong to what at any time. It reminds the tree of folders and files in the operating system. It is much more convenient to keep tasks this path (since you are quite used to it). Besides, these hierarchies can have as much levels as you need. Full text: http://computerandtechnologies.com/email/news_2008-04-11-20-30-04-881.html
Friday, April 11, 2008
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