Keeping Track of Work – Gantt Charts
Last week I talked about keeping track of your work in lab notebooks. There were some great comments on alternative systems, such as PowerPoint slide decks, simple memory, README files or digital scripts, or cataloged data in folders on the laptop. So that’s all well and good for writing down what you do – but how about keeping track of WHEN you need to do things, as well as what you’ve done? For scheduling meetings and events, I still like using a paper calendar. But I think I’m in the minority in that regard – most of my colleagues use Outlook, or Google Calendar, or some other online system. I’ve tried to go online (as with so many things these days, to the cloud!), but it’s just not my preference. I’ve used Tungle with classmates before, which is a group calendar that can coordinate between lots of different online calendaring…