Awesome, FREE Project Management

Over the last couple years I've tried out a lot of methods for managing my projects. I've tried almost everything I could find. Remember the Milk, Basecamp, Google Notebook and Tasks, a handful of open-source apps, even (gasp!) a pen and a notebook. Everything I tried either lacked features I needed or had a torturous interface.

I was doing some research, planning to write my own application, when I discovered ClockingIT. RSS feeds? Check. iCal? Check. Support for multiple projects and clients, wikis, time estimation and deadlines, even automatic creation of evil Gantt charts. Very cool.

The time tracking is truly beautiful. Click an icon next to the task you want to work on to start the clock, pause it to have a cigarette or go grab a coffee, then click again to stop working on that task and log details of your time spent. It makes the left side of my brain much happier.

The interface is OK, not great, but that's OK - ClockingIT is available under the MIT License! That also means you can host it yourself, if your organization won't allow you to host your super secret plans on someone else's server.

So, fork it, customize it and roll :)