Diligent

With a fixed amount of time everyday, and an abundance of activities you need to complete, time management becomes a pretty useful task. In this regard, Diligent wants to help you organize your schedule into groups, and subgroups from the comfort of your desktop.

One of the main advantages is that the application is built to run on Java Runtime Environment, which means it perfectly functions on any device running Java. Apart from this, no installation is required to enable functionality, providing extra flexibility since you can use it directly from a USB flash drive, without having to worry that the target PC gets affected.

As far as the visual design is concerned, the window you get to work in is split into several sections. One lets you quickly apply filters, such as assign, work, events, review, or recycle, with a second panel letting you browse through tasks, and a third where all detail fields are found, which is also the edit area of a task.

The task navigation panel shows items in a tree list, or table view, but you can only choose to create new items in the tree list tab. With a task selected, you need to shift your attention to the details pane in order to specify task name, description, as well as values for startline, deadline, period, completion status, and prerequisites.

Tasks can hold multiple items in case you want to break one down into multiple steps. However, you need to pay attention where you create a task, because it can’t be moved later on. A task’s status can be changed to open, rejected, accepted, or closed. It is by these values that filters organize all of your tasks.

In conclusion, Diligent can help you organize all of your daily activities to boost your plan and project towards success. However, it’s a little rough around the edges, and it can take a bit of accommodation time. Sadly, there’s no built-in scheduler, or alarm function to notify you of important events.