Ask HN: Best task management software for small teams?

How would you like to create a simple tool online, over Google App Engine, to match your needs ?<p>Just add a couple of records for Entities and Attributes in <a href="http://creator.ifreetools.com" rel="nofollow">http://creator.ifreetools.com</a> and you will have your app up and running in a few minutes. I guess you will need..<p><pre><code> Project(name, description, projectOwner:Ref::User) Task(name, description, project:Ref::Project, assignedTo:Ref::User, importance:[Medium, High, Low], status:[Not Completed, In Progress, Completed]) </code></pre> With regard to notes, you can either add / update notes in the task (everything is automatically audited) or create another entity..<p><pre><code> TaskNotes (task:Ref::Task) </code></pre> All entities automatically have the attributes : createdOn, updatedOn and notes. I also plan to add comments and attachments as a system level feature soon.<p>The app is free (ad-supported), and requires nothing more than a Google Account. You can also map it to your subdomain <a href="http://tasks.yourdomain.com" rel="nofollow">http://tasks.yourdomain.com</a> (using Google Apps). Check out the sample walk-through posts :<p><a href="http://ifreetools.blogspot.com/2010/03/building-simple-bug-tracker-application.html" rel="nofollow">http://ifreetools.blogspot.com/2010/03/building-simple-bug-t...</a><p><a href="http://ifreetools.blogspot.com/2010/01/build-apps-online-over-google-app.html" rel="nofollow">http://ifreetools.blogspot.com/2010/01/build-apps-online-ove...</a>

One more vote for trac, we've used taskfreak for about a year but recently made the switch and trac works great. The built in wiki is another big benefit, as well as fairly easy email integration (that did need a plug-in though).

<a href="http://verbapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://verbapp.com/</a> is my app. It's a task management application for freelancers and small distributed teams.<p>I'm about to launch a new version with a greater focus on communication within projects (as well as a bunch of other things). I think the new version will be much more what you're looking for, but the current for should be quite usable. If you do use it I would love any feedback you have.

trac is more issues tracking but you can certainly use it for task management: <a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/" rel="nofollow">http://trac.edgewall.org/</a>

<a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/" rel="nofollow">http://trac.edgewall.org/</a> + <a href="http://trac-hacks.org/" rel="nofollow">http://trac-hacks.org/</a><p>Fullblog plugin, discussion plugin, tags plugin and peer review plugin are very useful. They turns your trac installation into something like a micro social network.