hiveminder

[John SJ Anderson]

Anybody started to play around with HiveMinder yet? Seems fairly
amenable to a GTD implementation...

chrs,
john.

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[Joe]

It is a GTD implementation. It still has a few rough edges, including
sending your TODO list over the internet as clear text every time you
click on it.

[VistaCreek]

Excellent implementation in my opinion. Yes, some rough edges,
however, certainly plenty of potential.

[Kid NOC]

I spent about 2 hours playing with it and I like it a lot for managing
lists of single actions. I tried putting all the tasks for a project in
and find that tagging, "but first" and "and then" relationships are
very close to "doing it" for me but in their present state, do not work
for me. I like to see all of my NAs (ordered in the order I want to do
them) for a project in one list (or page or view) so I can decide if I
need to insert something new that comes along before or after a
specific task and in general be able to get a view of the project.

I tried creating a task as the main project name, then creating several
tasks with a "but first" dependency on the main project name task. The
problem with this is you can not re-order tasks once they are entered.
Say I create "Task 1", "Task 2" and "Task 3", all with "but first"
dependency on "Project Name". Now I think of "Task 4" which really
needs to be done after 1 but before 2. I can create more dependencies
but then things get hard to follow. If I could simply drag and drop
tasks that would be perfect.

To do a true ordered list of tasks in Hiveminder, you'd have to create
a chain of dependencies (each task dependent on the previous) and once
you have that you have to click through every task to see those
dependencies. Again, this does not work for me because I want to see
everything for a project in one view, be that an outliner style list or
clickable pages.

The product looks promising and I've given them feedback on my points
above. So far, it is a lot better than what I tried to do with Backpack
while retaining a nice look and feel plus nifty features like printable
and text export views. It's still not at the level of functionality I
have in MyLifeOrganized, but that is a standalone app and it's designed
in the concept of an outliner, so it isn't fair to hold Hiveminder to
that comparison.

I'll keep my eye on this.