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New Feature: Easy Zoom In & Out
We have added a much requested new feature to Tom's Planner! From now on you can very easily zoom in and out in your schedule. You can switch between any zoom level you like by clicking on the zoom option in the toolbar.
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New Feature: Team Members Can Print
From now on, if you have an Unlimited Account, collaborators on your projects can print. If you have a Professional Account and want your team members to be able to print out schedules, you need to upgrade.
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Productive Laziness & The Art of Having Fun
Taking it all a little less seriously can be good for your project health. ‘I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by’ Douglas Adams (Author of ‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’) You have to laugh; well I think you have to laugh.
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New Export & Import Options
We have expanded the Import and Export options in Tom's Planner. It is important for us that you have the flexibility to export a Tom's Planner Schedule when necessary and import files from other applications to help you be more time efficient.
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Green Bean PM by Peter Taylor
How should new project managers learn from the ‘Old beans’ When my kids were young they loved to play one particular game at the annual birthday parties. This game involved ‘Beans’ – all of the kids standing ready and waiting for instructions and then the cry would go up of ‘Beans’ and the game would begin.
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Tom's Planner vs MS Project
We stumbled upon this video last week by accident. It's about a conversation Chris Koelsch overheard his project managers having on the merits of Tom's Planner versus MS Project.
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New Plugin: Collapse/Expand All Groups At Once
If you work with large schedules and you want to be able to collapse or expand all groups at once, this is the plugin for you. It allows you to get a quick overview of your project.
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Improved Feature: Sharp PDF Output
It is now possible to get an amazingly sharp image of your schedule when exporting & printing to PDF. We have made a great step forward with this improved feature! Uptill now we always recommended exporting to an image (.png) if you wanted the sharpest output, but that is no longer the case. Exporting or printing to PDF will give you a great result!
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The Art of Good Project Closure by Peter Taylor
The value of lessons learned: the art of a good project closure
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Visualize Your Progress
Tracking Progress is high on our To Do list. We are planning to implement this as a special column or maybe as a plug-in.
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The Campaign for Real Project Sponsors by Peter Taylor
We all know that critical to a project's success is having a good project manager but after that then it is pretty important to have a good project sponsor; but, like the saying goes, ‘you can pick your friends but you can’t pick your relatives’ and the same is true of project sponsors.
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Tips and Tricks: Adjust Month Settings
If you have set your project settings to a month, you will probably have noticed the month width is quite broad. If you want to schedule more than a year, it is possible you don't need al that space and might actually prefer a more narrow width.
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