SmartOutline is Free-Form Information Management

I am a Project Manager for 20+ consulting projects and a larger number of consultants - all managed remotely thru telecommunications and travel.
My responsibilities vary: Project delivery & performance, Contracts, Personnel, Time Reporting, Tracking & Billing, Client Satisfaction, Recruiting, Business Growth, Profitability, etc.

Information Needs:

Current snapshot of overall Action Items and Milestones (Usually 50+) - along with more detailed status, schedules, notes, checklists. etc. regarding each item.
Central index of a large variety of electronic documents - historical as well as in progress; my own as well as shared with others. Many documents need to be related to other documents as well as to projects and actions.
Quickly accessible history of activities, communications, etc.
Listing of a variety of descriptive parameters regarding each project: funding, contracts, status & progress, stakeholders & personnel, objectives, issues, related documents, etc.

Past Efforts:

I have tried a variety of spreadsheets, homegrown databases, commercial PIM's, MS Project and Outlook. Also several note tree tools.
All were too simple, rigid, restrictive or inflexible or required too much effort in organizing, finding and retrieving information.

SmartOutline:

I started using SmartOutline a little more than a week before writing this. It's intuitive interface helped me implement or figure out how to solve most of my above needs using the Outline coupled with Notes, Links, Folders and Checklists. This appears to be a very small portion of the tool's real potential that includes Forms, Stickies, Drawings, Add-Ins as well as web capabilities - most of which I have not had time to explore.
An interesting side note is that I'm finding that I need real discipline to balance getting my work done against playing with SmartOutline to find other ways in which it can be useful. I'm also considering teaching myself web development in order to explore the form advantages.
All in all, a young but very well thought-out and executed product with a huge amount of potential.

Al Covington, CDP, CPM
Program Manager
Keane Federal Systems, Inc.

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