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TAMI: The Andrew Management Interface

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About TAMI

firefox It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention and this is especially true for this project. I've been a professional nerd for some time now and I've worked with many companies. Each of them has had their own project and their own goals. At first things were manageable because of the scale that I was working under. However, as time has gone by, my projects have grown both in scale and quantity. I'm an awful procrastinator and I discovered a website called 43Folders.com which is one specifically about productivity and time management. That website suggested a book called Getting Things Done I read and throughly enjoyed it. From it I greened a few tips about getting organized and this is my attempt to apply some of the things techniques into my life.

How thing are organized

There are 6 sections to the website, Overview, Messages, To-Do, Milestones, Whiteboard, and Chat

Overview

The overview page outlines all the information for a project. The Overview page provides a 14 day or 10 deadline outlook on due date(s). The overview page also has notices about recent new messages, items on the to-do list, new whiteboard entries. The overview page is a dashboard/heads up display on whats happening on your projects.

Messages

Messages is exactly what you'd expect. Project members can send messages to each other and the messages will be logged to the system. The reason this is preferred to email is because a log of everything can be created. Also groups of people can be notified without worry about spam filters filtering them out.

To-Do

To-Do is a laundry list of things that are important. Items placed in the To-Do section aren't associated with any particular milestone and therefore need a section of their own.

Milestones

Milestones are important projects that have their own deadlines. Milestones are professional grade To-Do lists. Each step along the way is well documented both progress wise and in who issued the orders. The milestone page is where most of your time will be spent.?

Whiteboard

The whiteboard is a page where anything goes. The page is essentially a drawing board to lay your ideas out so that the group can see. Upon completing a machup or drawing it's trivial to send your drawing to the whole community or a single person in the project.

Chat

Chat is a live chat room where ideas can be swapped and are, of course, logged for future reference. Conversations can be searched through and active users can be requested in the chat room.

Lists

Bulleted Lists

Bulleted lists appear throughout the site and denote lists that aren't to be done in any perticular order.

Unordered lists can be created in this way:

<ul>
     <li>Item One</li>
     <li>Item Two</li>
     <li>Item the Third</li>
</ul>

That would produce this:

  • Item One
  • Item Two
  • Item the Third

Ordered Lists

Bulleted lists appear throughout the site and denote lists that aren't to be done in any perticular order.

Unordered lists can be created in this way:

<ol>
     <li>Item One</li>
     <li>Item Two</li>
     <li>Item the Third</li>
</ol>

That would produce this:

  1. Item One
  2. Item Two
  3. Item the Third

Blockquote

Block quotes are special sections of a web page that are visually different from the original page. They usually (and do, in this case) have a background that is different from the page below them. They are a visually appealing way of separating content from the page.

Above in the "Links" section, the block quote was used to separate the code from the main page. Block quotes may also be used to denote a textual quote from a person. Of course if this is the case the information should be placed in quotes. To start a block quote all you need to do is type:

<blockquote>
     "Your quote here" - Author
<blockquote>

That would produce a block quote looking like this:

"De duobus malis minus est semper eligendum" - Thomas a Kempis
"Illic est haud deus" - Niztche

Apart from that, all HTML is accepted, but please, no Javascript. For an in depth tutorial on basic HTML, please visit W3Schools they have an excellent website about programming in all web languages. W3Schools is where I learned most of the things I know about programming for the web.