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I wholly endorse OmniGroup’s OmniPlan application. I’ve been using it this weekend for the first time and have not found it lacking in any area. If you have an Apple and you do things, you should try the free trial.

I have been laying out a series of projects for the woefully small group web/digital/computery group at my employer. In doing so with OmniPlan, I’ve found it to be far superior to sticking dates into Excel in a vain attempt at creating a chart that may appear, to the uncouth, as a Gantt chart. If you are trying to use Excel in this fashion, I’m sure you know you’re being silly.

I’ve only used the task/date assignment functions and have yet to get into assigning resources and such. I’m hoping to use OmniPlan to populate team calendars with all sorts of milestones, tasks and minutiae that would otherwise be lost in a shuffle of email.

The user interface is intuitive. I watched a few screencasts and started using it. If you use OmniGraffle, you’ll immediately see significant areas of similarity as soon as you open the ‘inspect’ window.

Given I know who reads my blog (“hi!”), by and large, I’ll keep you all posted.