Leadertask - Project Organizer

By Author: Alexey Abramovsky
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I have been using LeaderTask for a couple of years now, starting with a previous GOTD offer.

I'm HOOKED. I use it every day. It's on automatic startup at boot.

It's a very good project organizer.

Outlook drove me crazy because its Task List is just a list, no tree structure. If your day is not structured around your meeting schedule, if you have lots of projects you are working on, many in the background, Outlook is a very poor choice.

LeaderTask has MULTIPLE LAYERS of organization. Projects, sub-projects, tasks, sub-tasks, and you can look sideways at all of that by having categories that are independent of the project structure. Phone Calls. Errands. Reading.

A KEY FEATURE that they don't mention: A single task can be in multiple projects. The implications of that don't become clear until you have been using LT for a while. It provides truly AWESOME flexibility.

The colors are a bit odd, but you can manually change the colors, just right-click on a project name (in the project list, in the project ...
... name on an individual task view, anywhere you see the project name, just right-click). You have access to the full Windows color palette. You can make every task a different shade of grey if that's you're style. But you can't define a whole designer color palette like the newer Word and PowerPoint. Gee.

It updates on-the-fly so if you open a task and add notes, there is no such thing as forgetting to save them. It's pretty much keystroke by keystroke, without a lot of system overhead.

The developers are among the most response of any software I have ever used. That is AWESOME. In two years of heavy use, several of my suggests have been incorporated into the product, sometimes in a matter of a week or so. Serious bugs get POUNCED on.

If the color palette issue is important to you, I bet if you did the design work, figured out what the interface would have to look like and came up with some nice, harmonious color combinations the way MS Word has its Themes, they'd build it for you. They are very into making this a great piece of software, but they are just a bunch of engineers and their budget is tight.

They also have a VERY GENEROUS way of getting a free license. Contribute to the user forum. Use the product, ask questions, help other new users, and they will give it to you. If you don't have time for that, it's not expensive. I love that philosophy.

For a product that works really well, the best of its class that I have found, that's not a problem for me.

I hope this helps, and I look forward to seeing some of you in the LeaderTask Forum.

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