Managing tasks across multiple projects when done poorly, can become a very big bottleneck to productivity. This can be made worse with dependency on the wrong tool. Someone can spend most of their time learning how to navigate around a tool instead of having the tools work for them, hence taking a lot of their valuable time off the things that actually matter.
At the core, a project management tool is exactly what the name implies. A tool that someone can use, to keep track of the project and its different deliverables at different points of its lifecycle. Now, before software, many people relied on notebooks, which worked fine for individuals but could not scale when the project grew to become more complex with many dependencies, or whenever it scaled to a bigger team.
This gave rise to some project management tools that try to address this problem, by offering the project management features and collaboration tools.
The Problem
Despite the progress made in creating the project management tools, it seems a lot of people forget where everyone normally starts from. Most people start solo. The tools currently in place are stuffed with a lot of optimizations that are mainly aimed at making a team succeed, but they become quite complex for individuals who are just getting started, and can become a bottleneck to helping them succeed.
Users have often complained about having very complex setups which demand watching endless tutorials to understand what does what, hence having to work for the application, when in most instances people just want to get started without the hassle.
Therefore, we made Arrows specifically for the people who are working on anything solo, and want to keep track of their projects from inception to success. The application can be accessed here at arrows.sdven.com.
Our terminologies
An arrow is a task. The lifecycle of the task is tracked from when it is nocked, just like the arrow in real life, to when it lands.
A quiver is a project. This can have many arrows. The time of flight of the arrow is the amount of time that the task is executed for before it lands. This is the time that we track and use to rank users of the app in the Global Flight Deck.
Once you understand this, you are good to go with Arrows. Make a new quiver, and start shooting the arrows.
As long as you have something you want to track, whether it is the course material for your studies, a programming project, etc. Use Arrows to help you stay focused. All the best and I hope you never get to beat my flight time on the global flight deck. (check username: @daniel).