Comments on: Wrike: almost, but not quite

By: doolin

doolin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:21:30 +0000

Update:

I’m using freemind to structure the work, and ganttproject for timelining. Neither of these scale particularly well, but they solved my immediate problem at the time.

By: Dina L.D.

Dina L.D. — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:48:03 +0000

Also try http://www.5pmweb.com. Their timeline seams to be a bit nicer and it looks like they are developing it on. Don’t know about image export, but you can contact them and see if this is something they have in the plans.

By: doolin

doolin — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:30:51 +0000

Daria: Thanks for the feedback. Since I currently bill by the hour as a consultant, anything other than MS* tools has to be either brutally simple, or the client has to be paying for it. What I liked about Basecamp is that I got value from it immediately. It passed my “6 second rule.” I’m curious, do you have any instrumentation in place for measuring conversions? Are you running any split testing on your interfaces?

Tim: My client does tasking in Excel, which is what I will be doing remainder of the current project. My time budget for evaluating new tools is spent for the month, but I will definitely take a look at your tools in a few weeks.

For both of you and anyone else, I have no problem working in heterogeneous environments, and will purchase “competing” packages if both have capabilities I need. A big factor in any purchase of course is being able to post-process my data. I typically use sed, cut, paste and unique in bash script.

By: Daria

Daria — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:34:20 +0000

By the way, the you can read more on the use of WRike timeline here http://www.wrike.com/blog/07/16/2007/Get_a_Timeline_on_the_way

By: Daria

Daria — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:32:56 +0000

David,
Thank you for giving Wrike a try.
As for adjusting timeline – it’s easy you need to just drag-n-drop due-dates. It is such a pity that you could invest just 10 minutes of your time. If you had spent at least 15 minutes, I’m sure you would see more benefits in Wrike for your projects.
We’ll be glad to have you back as our customer. The next big feature release is coming in a month, so stay tuned!

By: Tim Howell

Tim Howell — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:44:12 +0000

The link in my post above isn’t working because of punctuation – try http://www.actionthis.com

By: Tim Howell

Tim Howell — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:43:25 +0000

If you want to try something that works the way you do, try ActionThis – see http://www.actionthis.com. Its focus is on task management for teams, but there’s an Outlook client as well, so you can use Outlook to create and manage your ActionThis tasks alongside your other email – you don’t have to learn anything new.

And if you use the website only, that provides an easy to use application that you should be able to use pretty quickly.

Try it – there’s a free 30 day trial all features, and there’s a free version which is more than capable.