LiquidPlanner provides you with two different ways to manage the same set of tasks. Clients, Projects &  Folders make it easy to organize your work, while Tasklists make it easy to prioritize your work. 

The Organize View

The Organize view is simply your outline of work. It shows you the logical relationships between your clients, projects, folders and tasks. This is where you can easily view your entire portfolio of projects and the likely range of finish dates for each one.  You can put a promise date on each project, and you’ll see very clearly when you are at risk of missing those promise dates.    

The Organize view does not represent when your tasks will get done. The actual scheduling of work happens in the Prioritize view.   

The Prioritize View

LiquidPlanner is a priority-based scheduling system. Rather than having you set explicit start and end dates on each task, we use global priority to determine when tasks get scheduled.  To create and maintain an accurate schedule, be sure that your tasklists and tasks are listed in priority order.   

When you're in the Prioritize view, the first task is treated as your first priority and is thus scheduled first, starting with today’s date. The start dates of all subsequent tasks are determined by the amount of work preceding them. The range of likely finish dates is determined, with varying levels of confidence, based on your ranged estimates.     

LiquidPlanner immediately recalculates your entire schedule every time an item in your plan is updated.    

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs are the small gray text that you see next to each task.  When you view a task in the Prioritize view, the breadcrumb points back to the client and project that the task belongs.  When you view a task in the Organize view, the breadcrumb points to the tasklist that the task belongs to.

The Power of Two Views

If you will be creating and managing project plans yourself, or if you simply want a deeper understanding, be sure to watch this short video to see the power of two views in action: