Chris Janssen, of Edinburgh University, wrote into the Users-List about why he chose Chandler to collaborate with his team. They seem to be really pushing the boundaries of Chandler’s “integrated approach” to task and calendar management, tracking to-dos both as a list in the Triage Table View and with assigned time slots on the calendar:

“I use Chandler daily/ heavily to coordinate projects and tasks within my team. The reasons why I have taken up Chandler:

• project management needed more fine grained task management than gantt charts provide; i.e. projects needed to be broken down into small tasks.
• it is important that tasks are assigned to time slots in the calendar; i.e. tasks need specific time slots in which they are worked on - this prevents overloading and helps with time management issues when people really have too much to do.
• tasks need to be persistent until marked as done. Just using a calendar slot for task/ time management is no good, since the task will automatically expire once the time/ date has passed, even if it is not completed. The current version (0.7.5.1. and 0.7.6) solves this beautifully (with the “Dashboard”).

…I have to say that Chandler (in its present incarnation) has proven an excellent solution.”