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personal redmine use, many projects

Added by Sean Davis over 13 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:

  1. Make a separate project for each "project" and place all those "projects" under one big superproject for tracking purposes
  2. 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


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RE: personal redmine use, many projects - Added by David Brayley almost 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 almost 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 about 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.

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