NAC - looking for Destop and Project Management Software

[Jonathan Monetti]

I've spent years researching these kind of products, and not many can truly
do it all or tie it all together.  MS Office is probably one of the most
integrated and real-world suites, but the competing demands of integration
vs. flexibility make it somewhat unwieldy (it's a lrage install, and most
people use less than 50% of its capabilities, even less when you consider
available add-ons like MS Small Business Tools, the many and varied versions
of Visio, etc.).

If you are a visual thinker, Mindjet is a cool Office-compatible tool that
has served my short attention span reall well in the past:

http://www.mindjet.com (trail d/l:
http://www.mindjet.com/us/products/mindmanager_x5pro/mmx5pro.php)

I'm sorry, where was I...?

Microsoft's new "OneNote" is pretty neat, if embryonic. Since it's for the
Tablet PC, I don't know how useful for you, but gives an idea of where
productivity SW is headed.  I think you can still get trial versions:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/onenote/prodinfo/trial.mspx I have a version
running well on W2K.

As a former Project Manager, I feel MS Project is fairly overbuilt; most of
us rarely used much of its functionality.  For run of the mill project
organization, I'd suggest something like Project KickStart
(http://www.projectkickstart.com/).  Pretty neat stuff, fairly cheap too, if
I recall.

Also, for documents, check out the oft-ignored feature/tool "MS Binder".  It
comes with Office 2000 & earlier (not sure about XP?).

HTH
Jonathan Monetti






Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:01:30 -0500
From: "Ben Swann" <benswann at comcast.net>
Subject: NAC - looking for Destop and Project Management Software
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Cc: Ben Swann <benswann at comcast.net>
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No Audi Content here, but as great minds on the list ..did some searching on
this, but got bombed by too many pop ups and figured someone has
recommendation..

I'm looking for a Windows XP Compatable Desktop Organizer/integration
program that integrates/coordinates Mail, Calender, Task/Project management,
Billing Program  with file links.  Any ideas?  Sort of what one would expect
Microsoft Outlook to do.  Of course I don't want to pay a lot - freeware is
good.  If it does more, I'll pay more type of thing.  Trying to coordinate
the myriad of interrelated tasks that tend to get overwhelming.

Ben