Anyway, there is a new theme in PP (Marine) that makes it look pretty nice and I’m hoping to use it to ramp up the researchers and staff I work with to the idea of an online collaboration tool. Until then I’m focussing my geek, GTD energy towards my personal task organization via OmniFocus - etc. Unfortunately, my girlfriend is not a MAC user and I’ve also been trying to use Remember the Milk for our home stuff, which has been clunky for me. I think a true, errorless and safe synching of these task management programs is really important and a yet undiscovered land.

I actually thought about your iGTD screencast when I saw some of the iGTD2 features since they really do seem to be super-powerful and feature-rich. Maybe this will be the thing that causes me to break down and install Leopard despite all the scary comments on Apple’s site! Your original iGTD screencast is what made me see the value in harvesting to-do’s right from my email. So, maybe an even more comprehensive system can be created with iGTD2 if the interface gets a little more useable.

One thing I love about CD is that it notifies selected individuals of changes via email, and if they respond to that email, it posts comments to the page, file or discussion. That keeps my less technically inclined employees interested and collaborating. I’ve even got a couple of clients down with the system, but I don’t push it on anyone.

I’m locked in with CD for a while (and very happy), but I’ll have to take a peek at Project Pier. I looked at Active Collab when I was researching this, but it felt too unfinished at the time. The features available through CD were well worth the money for me :).

I tried out Central Desktop (CD) for a while and did like it. Unfortunately, most of the researchers I manage projects for really just want to check up on progress and didn’t “adopt” the true collaborative potential. So, it was hard for me to justify the monthly expense.

I ended up installing Project Pier (the still open source fork of active collab) as a place on our servers to store all relevant files for a certain project as well as some very light task management (again more just to demonstrate progress.)

Project Pier is a different kind of alternative that might be useful to some.