help with personal information managers, calendars, task management

[LotharJade]

What do you all think is the best software application for personal information managers, calendars, and task management software out there. I am looking to be able to manage multiple lists of tasks, priorities them, link them, have graphical information, monitor, and review them.

You see, Ive used an older version of Meeting maker before and while it was useful, I kept wanting much more out of it. I want to be able to not only prioritize, but link one task to another (or multiple); have a graphical interface that indicated expected time of task as well as actual on completion; prevent lower prioritize tasks from falling off the face of the earth by a recurring reminder of how long its been sitting there; even be able to produce reports on tasks completed. Actually I want more than that, but am not sure what all is available.

What do you recommend, and what neat features do you make the most use of???

 

[LotharJade]

How about just a task management system?

 

[Brazen]

Questions on PIMs get scarce answers, largely because I don't think anyone has a PIM that they really like.

 

[LotharJade]

Its funny. I have found very interesting PIMs and Task managers, but they all seem lacking somehow. Many lose interest to me because I want something that is based offline. Many I think have features that could be wonderfull if added with the features of others. Then add on the fact I want a free open source version.

I am surprised there isn't more associated with Mozilla Sunbird in the way of plug-ins or a parallel set of projects. Sunbird is mostly a calendar. They need a time-task manager, to-do list, and meeting maker projects to go along with Sunbird. Then people could add on what they want as needed. I wish I was more of a programmer, and I would just start it up myself.

Some mashup of Sunbird, Hiveminder, ToDoList, and My Life Organized would be rather cool. Then add on some sort of workflow process task monitoring in a graphical format. By that, I remember in buisness and engineering classes, they showed ways of managing both time, tasks, and projects in a graphical workflow format that linked various tasks. For example they would have a bar that was two units long to either indicate 2 hours or 2 days to complete a task depending. This would be shadowed with a bar showing how long it took to finish. Other bars were linked to this an automatically moved if a task went longer than scheduled. That would be really usefull in a PIM todo list. I guess this was called a Gantt chart.

I guess I hoping for a lot though...