🚀 go-pugleaf

Yes, I've been following the threads already on this, but let me throw
my own request out in case it strikes a common chord.

I'm looking for something to manage my activities.  I have People,
Actions, and Time, and I need to manage each in a somewhat
hierarchical fashion.

For example, I look at individuals, and also groups of people.  Both
have meaning.

Also, I have actions, and projects (collections of actions).
Sometimes, these are even nested multiply, like subtasks of subtasks
of tasks, with expected or promised due dates at each level.
And priorities for each.  Wheesh.

And, of course, time. Year/month/week/day/hour/minute at a glance.
Everything I'm doing, or just by project, or juest by person.

Joe calls me.  I'm talking to him on the phone.  He wants to know when
we can do lunch.  I've got to be able to pull something up in a few
mous-ings that shows me this week and next, preferably just lunchtime.
:-)

Fine... next thursday.. but he wants to know if I can have Mary there
too.  Now I need to put a task in to call Mary and get back to Joe
before next thursday.  IT'S GOOTTA BE FAST, cuz I'm talkin' to Joe,
and he wants my attention.

Oh, now Mary called me.  What were *all* the things that I had to talk
to her about.  Quickly.

Oh, she says the video is now due on the 18th instead of the 25th.
Gads.  Gotta call the crew and get it moved up for shooting now; can I
make it, she asks?

My day is *filled* with this stuff... and I can't be the only one in
the world that does this.

I'd gladly pay $500 for something that worked *well*.
I've got my powerbook... now lets make it powerful!

I'm a good enough hacker (20 years now) that I could write this if I
knew enough about programming my recently acquired mac.  But I'd
rather take an off-the-shelf package that someone has put their time
into.

Yes, I have Thoughtminder.  No, that won't do.  Yes, I have considered
writing up what I need in Hypercard. No, that won't do (wayy too
slow).  Excel macros don't cut it either.

Someone must have made a program for the busy people like me. (I'm
writing my second book on Perl, handling clients for network
administration, Perl programming, and teaching, and also producing
videos.  And that's just the tip of the iceberg!)

Just another new powerbook user,
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