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5 May 2005 : Free Personal/Project Management Tools

Following on from my last post on the Manage-Do Flipbook, I thought I’d also post a few links to free personal/project management tools that I use from time to time. Feel free to add to the list.

  • FreeMind – A free mind mapping application that allows you to organise things as you would in a spider diagram, only it’s a little more flexible. Requires Java. Article about FreeMind.
  • Open Workbench – An open source alternative to Microsoft Project. Requires Java.
  • OpenOffice – An open source suite of office applications. Makes a good alternative to the Microsoft Office suite.
  • EssentialPIM – Free software that you can use to keep notes and contacts as well as organising tasks.
  • Sunbird Free calendar software from the nice people who bring you Firefox.
  • ScrapBook – One of the most useful Firefox extensions around, ScrapBook allows you to accurately save Web pages to your hard drive, organise them, make notes…

Anyone use or know of any other good ones? I know about the useful online tools that 37signals provide, but have never got around to trying them out.

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4 Comments

Comment 1

I’ve heard good things about Freemind from a mate. I use Sunbird myself and I like it, but I wish it was a bit more integrated with the Mozilla Suite.

Tommy, 06 May 2005 at 0654

Comment 2

Ah, another FreeMind user. Brilliant, eh!

I downloaded it a month or so back and within 2 hours had a substantial site schema in place. Yes, there are some niggling issues but that’s to be expected with public license development.

It sounds daft but one test of inspired software is whether it ‘feels’ right. This does. Slick, quick and easy to use.

Great piece of kit.

Mike Pepper, 17 May 2005 at 1137

Comment 3

Ooo yeah! FreeMind looks splendid, I’ll have to have a play with that!

John Oxton, 17 May 2005 at 1254

Comment 4

@ Mike Pepper: I completely agree with you.

FreeMind is really intuitive – like digital spider diagrams. I’ve been using FreeMind on and off for a couple of years now. It’s easy to plan out projects and you have flexibility you don’t get with good ol’ pen and paper.

I too have experienced a few little niggles, and the interface could be a little prettier, but it’s grown on me again recently.

dotjay, 17 May 2005 at 1933

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