iPhones and Project Management
I have to say, I am loving my iPhone. I’m finding that it works well as a PDA for me. The Notes tool is fine for meeting notes, and I’m getting faster at my thumb typing, and I can easily use phpCollab or RememberTheMilk for my task and list management. At the end of a meeting, it’s one click to generate an email with my notes in it.
Meetings with whiteboard drawings can also have the whiteboard recorded with the use of the iPhone’s camera. I couldn’t do that with my Palm Pilot. I would like to have an easy means of drawing on photos/images, but that’s not the end of the world. I am hopeful that an application for this sort of work will be done in the next few months.
Using phpCollab with the iPhone isn’t hard, but a bit more spacing on some of the action icons would be helpful. The iPhone’s management of forms makes changing form data a snap.
I’ve also found a new GTD tool that I’m going to play with. The interface isn’t as slick as RememberTheMilk.com but it’s simplicity may win out in the long run. It’s also designed just for GTD. Checkout iDo To Do. There’s a free trial for a month and the cost is only $6. I’m going to play with it for a day or two as it shows promise. I like the email features of RememberTheMilk though, and that’s been a good system thus far.
