personal redmine use, many projects
Added by Sean Davis almost 14 years ago
I work in the bioinformatics field and have been looking for a tool like Redmine for quite some time (and finally found it). I routinely have 20-30 projects that I juggle personally and wonder what folks would recommend in terms of tracking something like this in Redmine. I see a couple of broad ways to go:
- Make a separate project for each "project" and place all those "projects" under one big superproject for tracking purposes
- Make one project and manage tasks rather than projects, tagging tasks with, for example, a custom field with the collaborator name
Is there anyone else using Redmine for personal use and tracking many small projects rather than one or a few large ones?
Thanks,
Sean
Replies (3)
RE: personal redmine use, many projects - Added by David Brayley over 13 years ago
Hello Sean,
I have a similar need, and have been thinking about using redmine in a similar way. I'm a product manager for a healthcare software company, and just like you I have to juggle a lot of little projects. We use redmine in development, and for a few external client implementatino projects, too. I like it better than any other application I have ever used for project management, or for personal task management.
Have you started using redmine to track personal projects? I like the first alternative you considered - of actually creating individual projects for each personal project. This would give you full tracking capability in a way that partitioning a single project would not.
How do you handle privacy? Have you set up a separate instance of redmine for your own use, or do you share redmine with others?
Best regards,
David
RE: personal redmine use, many projects - Added by Sean Davis over 13 years ago
One redmine instance is what we set up. Redmine allows very fine-grained access controls, including making projects "private", so I just make private projects that are only available for those involved in the project. It works fine. I just log out regularly (to become anonymous) to make sure that I haven't done anything stupid such as configuring a private project with "public" visibility.
Sean
RE: personal redmine use, many projects - Added by Marat Aminov from RedmineUP over 1 year ago
Well, at RedmineUP we have a few users who configured Redmine for a personal use: task management, single wiki storage, checklists, crm, time tracking for freelance and coaching. You can create free Redmine account for a personal use and do not spend time for server configuration and installation.