>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Russell> It isn't necessarily. I'm just pointing out it's likely to Russell> grow as more folks use it for larger lists. After all, most Russell> PM software just maintains a specialized kind of list. Russell> Yes I've looked at task juggler, and was impressed, but its Russell> overkill for what I need. (its also GUI!) Nah. It *has* a GUI, but underneath it is text based. I've run a few projects with it, and I know it uses text. The structure is very simple. From the Tutorial: Chapter 4. Tutorial: Your First Project We have mentioned already that TaskJuggler uses plain text files that describe the project to schedule it. As you will see now, the syntax of these files is easy to understand and very intuitive. I doubt it's overkill. The nice thing about task juggler is that you can just use as much as you need. I have used it for some large projects (but, like Carsten, only for the initial planning and resource allocation phase). I genuinely think that if there is a band of org-moders (hmmm we could do with a cooler collective noun I think ?) who need PM functionality, then a combination of org-mode and TJ with some perl glue would be pretty good. Russell> I think the key here is that Org needs some PM-like Russell> functionality, but I certainly wouldn't advocate trying to Russell> make Org a full PM. Org is great for lists, notes, TODO's, Russell> etc. Ever try to take freeform notes in MS Project? ;] Nope. I don't use MS to start with. ;-) Also, when using TJ, I was also able to make notes in emacs (because I was coding the TJ files in emacs). Anyway, this horse is flogged to death! If your experience of TJ is only the GUI, I'd seriously recommend a look at the command line mode. The nice thing about using org-mode with other programmes is that it tends to conform to the UNIX philosophy: "Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface." Pete _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode