It grew out of a frustration that most task managers do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.

In addition, it offers effort tracking, categories, and notes. Task Coach is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, and iPhone and iPod Touch.

(Screenshot of MAC OSX version of Task Coach)

Its core features include the following:

- Create, edit, and delete tasks and subtasks.
- Attribute tasks with a subject, description, priority, start date, due date, a completion date and an optional reminder.
- Tasks can recur on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
- Tasks can be viewed as a list or as a tree.
- Tasks can be sorted by all task attributes, e.g. subject, budget, budget left, due date, etc.
- Several filters to e.g. hide completed tasks or view only tasks that are due today.
- Tasks can be created by dragging an e-mail message from Outlook or Thunderbird onto a task viewer.
- Attachments can be added to tasks, notes, and categories by dragging and dropping files, e-mail messages from Outlook or Thunderbird, or URL’s onto a task, note or category.

And much more. See the full feature list here.

You enter your wordcount and it updates a graph showing you how much progress you have made.

It also shows you how far you are through your daily goal, and your total goal.

This small but well coded app is perfect for anyone undertaking a strict writing regimen, from novels to academic theses.

If you make a mistake in your hours, you can go back and edit any of the entries by double-clicking on the session in question.

Kapow also allows you to easily keep track of the hours since you lasted billed a client, by providing a helpful “Billed” checkbox–the totals will reflect your work after the last billed session.

FreeMind can be used for the following purposes:

Keeping track of projects, including subtasks, state of subtasks and time recording

Project workplace, including links to necessary files, executables, source of information and of course information

Workplace for internet research using Google and other sources

Keeping a collection of small or middle sized notes with links on some area which expands as needed. Such a collection of notes is sometimes called knowledge base.

Essay writing and brainstorming, using colors to show which essays are open, completed, not yet started etc, using size of nodes to indicate size of essays.

Keeping a small database of something with structure that is either very dynamic or not known in advance.

Commented internet favorites or bookmarks, with colors and fonts having the meaning you want.

Some of its features include: the ability to easily take all sort of notes, collect research results and share them, centralize your project data and reuse it, quickly organize your thoughts in idea boxes, keep track of your information in a smart way, make intelligent To Do lists
and more…