Delegate and Manage Projects with Colabolo

I have a lot of balls in the air all the time -- a ton of projects I'm working on myself, but I also assign stuff to other writers and rely on an ad hoc collection of handwritten notes, stuff in OneNote, and e-mail to keep track of it all. There has to be a better way -- and there is.

I recently discovered Colabolo, an awesome program that lets you keep track of all your tasks and collaborate with anyone you delegate to at the same time.

Colabolo lets you create multiple projects, and each project can have any number of tasks -- called "issues" -- that you can assign to yourself or anyone else on your team. If you use Colabolo just for yourself, it's kind of overkill for a desktop task manager. But when you add other people to the mix, everyone can collaborate by adding notes and changing task status, adding attachments, and reassigning issues. There are a ton of handy management features as well -- you can browse issue status by project, or roll all the issues up one high-level view. And there's an iPhone version coming.

The program is currently free, but the Web site warns that it'll cost about $10/user/month when it exits beta. That's a pretty steep price; here's to hoping for a really, really long beta. [Via TechCrunch]