There’s lots of tools out there for managing your projects, time, and tasks. Many of these platforms are just way too big for what I’m lookin’ for… I have, however, found a few I really like and find to be quite useful.

Aimbo

Aimbo lets you track small tasks and to-do lists. Create a tasklist, save a link to it and access it from anywhere.
You can share your lists with customers, co-workers, and friends.

features

• Create a list with one click of a button
• Free. Forever.
• No registration, no email addresses
• No page reloads - AJAX inside!

ProjectPier

A fork from the now fee-based ActiveCollab, ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface. ProjectPier will help your organization communicate, collaborate and get things done Its function is similar to commercial groupware/project management products, but allows the freedom and scalability of self-hosting. Even better, it will always be free.

features

• Web-Powered: PP is completely web based
• Easy: PP is focused on simple concepts and usability to provide an easy to use solution
• Organized: PP organizes your projects into Milestones, Messages, Tasklists, Tasks and Files.
• Everywhere: E-mail notifications for new milestones, tasks, messages and comments mean that your users can stay in the loop without checking the site.
• Free and Open: ProjectPier is open source and Free Software, and will always be free as in speech and as in beer (Honest Public Licence, modified GPL)
• No Restrictions: PP allows an unlimited number of Projects, Clients, Users, and every other object. ProjectPier wants to help you get things done, not get in the way.

TaskFreak

TaskFreak! is a simple but efficient web based task manager written in PHP.

features

• GTD compliant 
• easy setup with MySQL or SQLite (PHP4 and PHP5 compatible)
• simple and easy to use (outrageously user friendly)
• order tasks by priority and deadline, organize by project and context
• absolutely free & open source

Paymo

Paymo tracks your time and tasks.

features

For Managers

• central database with all employee timesheets in one place
• ideal for geographicaly distributed teams
• detailed timesheet reports for each employee
• employee performance/utilization reports
• easy to use Client <> Project <> Task structure
• advanced reports that can be emailed, printed or saved as PDF
• brandable user interface

For Users

• 100% web based software
• easy to use, intuitive interface
• desktop client for Windows & Mac widget
• works on any operating system (Windows, Linux and Mac)
• stopwatch functionality
• manualy edit time entries

GTDInbox - Getting things done with GMail

GTDInbox is an addon for Firefox that transforms Gmail into a powerhouse of productivity and manageability. GTDInbox gives you a better inbox.

Features

• To Do List
• Manage Projects
• Team Working
• Customer Support

Also…

• Faster daily use of Gmail
• Turn email into tasks
• Browse Gmail as a personal information database

Tags: project, task, tasks, project management, time, time tracking