Context:
- I use MS projects just for managing some hobby projects.
- because it's just for my hobby, I allow MS project to let a task count the weekend as working days
Problem:
- the vertical light gray bars denoting the weekends disappear
- I'd like this bar because it's useful for visually aligning far-down tasks with the date markings at the top
Thank you!
I spent 55 years supervising construction, mostly hi-rise concrete. Over the last few years I've watched more and more of the tools I used go from a one-time purchase to a monthly fee. Scheduling, estimating, and project tracking are all like that now.
I can see why a subscription makes sense when several people edit the same thing at once, or when the company wants cloud sync and IT support. But a lot of the work is one person with one file. A superintendent building a schedule and issuing it to the trades every week doesn't need a server.
A tool that runs in the browser, that you buy once, and that keeps working on your computer even if the maker disappears, seems reasonable to me for that kind of work. What am I missing?
Do you prefer to pay monthly? If so, what do you get for it that a one-time purchase can't give you? And if you'd rather buy once, what would make you trust a small, one-person maker enough to do it?