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by DanielBMarkham 2900 days ago
Notepad. Or any other code editor.

I wrote a book on extreme minimalist information management[1]. Notepad and git (along with the appropriate text tools, which might just be some shell programming) work just fine, as long as you know how to tag and organize stuff.

Even without the stuff I wrote about, what do you really need to know? 1) What work is there? 2) How much of it is done? 3) Who's doing what? 4) How are things going?

There's not a lot to it -- which is probably why you see fourteen million PM apps out in the wild.

I'd like to see PM apps make the transition that source control apps did to git. That is, moving from everybody-makes-an-app-they-sell-you to something bland, easy, free, highly configurable and interoperable -- and runs anywhere. There's no reason we can't have that.

1: https://leanpub.com/info-ops

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You seem to have missed the blatant self-promotion opportunity here. Link?
Fixed it.

For anyone interested. I also have a free white paper specifically about PM information management. Ping me.