Mashari – a dashboard to manage your projects

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Mashari – a dashboard to manage your projects

I built this because I was struggling to keep track of my various projects (and personal stuff). I was using a combination of markdown files to keep notes, Google Calendar for reminders and Chrome bookmarks to allow me to quickly get to a project (or its related infrastructure). I was really starting to struggle and found each morning was getting more difficult to get up to speed with what was where and what I needed to work on. I've used other more complex project management systems and I often found I would get bogged down trying to understand their intricacies. I wanted something simple that I could load up each morning and get started quickly on the important stuff. So I built Mashari. Originally it was just a list of projects with their todos. Now though, it's evolved into a dashboard which lets you rank your projects by priority, todos that you can shuffle about, a surfacing system that lets you progress on the important stuff without the smaller stuff dropping off your radar, calendar reminders so you don't forget stuff and a simple Wiki for notes. And a simple search system so you can find things. I'm using Google OAuth because I hate remembering more usernames and passwords. It's built on Rails with Postgres just because it's a solid framework to build stuff quickly and keep things well-structured. I've used other frameworks but I knew I could get this done using Rails without thinking too much or getting bogged down. There's other stuff as well but I think those are the main things. Oh, Apps, I forgot about those - these let you extend the system - e.g the git App lets you attach a repo so you can see the latest commits. Anyway, try it out. I'd love the feedback. You can get me directly on hello@mashari.app I'm currently adding features as I need them so if you want something just let me know and I'll add it into the queue!