A humble experiment in project management on Linux

This is another one of my quiet little experiments. Not about kernel tweaks or responsiveness this time, but about managing complexity in a simple way.

I’ve been looking for a clean way to do personal project planning on my Linux machine.

So I tried this: • Debian • Emacs • Org-mode • TaskJuggler (tj3) • Firefox-ESR or Flatpak Firefox to preview the charts

I write my projects in a .org file. Tasks are just headlines with properties like :Effort: or :Start: or :Depends:. Org-mode can export it directly to a .tjp file. TaskJuggler compiles that into beautiful HTML reports. Gantt charts, task breakdowns, even basic budget simulations. All from text.

That’s all. And surprisingly, it just works. Curious if anyone else does project planning this way. Not just todos or lists, but actual timelines and dependencies. Is there anything else out there like this that stays local and minimal?

Thanks for reading. Just wanted to share this in case someone else is looking for something similar.