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It's easy to find a project management tool for large groups, but finding one for personal use that doesn't overwhelm you with group-focused features is a challenge. Here's a look at five popular tools for personal project management.

The spread on this week's Hive Five was wide reaching. The answers you provided to the question 'What is the best personal project management tool?' are, unsurprisingly, quite diverse and personal. We tallied up the votes, and in some cases folded very similar tools into a combined entry, and now we're back to report on your favorite personal project management tools.

This list is now a bit out of date, and we don't necessarily recommend the tools on this page for personal project management. For a more updated list of great tools, check out our more recent hive five on the same topic.

Five Best Personal Project Management Tools

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Todoist (Web-Based, Free)

Todoist is a full featured to-do and project management tool well suited for personal project management. You can easily sort your tasks into project and sub-projects, manage the tasks within the project with further sub-lists, and assign due dates to everything. Todoist integrates with Gmail for easy movement between your email inbox and your project management inbox.

mGSD (Web-Based, Free)

Formerly known as MonkeyGTD, mGSD is a robust, TiddlyWiki-powered personal management tool. Whether or not you're an adherent of David Allen's Getting Things Done system or not—but especially if you are—mGSD is packed with features for managing your projects in GTD style. You can easily flag inputs as next actions, part of a new or existing project, send them over to your tickler file for future reminders, or stash them as reference material. You can store mGSD on any remote web server (or your Dropbox account) for remote access or keep the file local for easy transport on your flash drive.

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Tom's Planner (Web-Based, Free)

If Gantt charts are a big part of your workflow and project planning, Tom's Planner is an intuitive Gantt chart tool that works nicely as a personal project management tool. Unlike most traditional Gantt charts that display the data after you input it elsewhere, Tom's Planner has a strong focus on ease of use including on-the-fly, mouse-based tweaking of your charts. You can take it for a test run here, and make sure to pay special attention to the functionality of the right-click mouse button.

Things (Mac, $49.95)

Things is a polished to-do and project management tool exclusive to Mac OS X and iOS. The interface is easy to navigate, keyboard shortcuts are abundant, and it's extremely well integrated into the core applications of the Mac like iCal. Moving tasks about, organizing them into projects, and linking them into your calendar is easy peasy. All your tweaking in the main application easily syncs with your iPhone, iPad, and other iOS devices.

OneNote/Evernote/Text

It was quite a neck and neck battle between OneNote, Evernote, and basic text capture. In light of their primary roles as note taking and organization tools—and the diverse nature of the vote spread this week—we took the liberty to roll them together into one entry. OneNote is a Windows-only offering commonly bundled with Microsoft Office that offers excellent project management via notebooks and their accompanying pages and sub-pages. Evernote is a web and mobile device-based capture tool and the personal project manager of choice for many people. If you're already using Evernote to capture all the inputs in your life, using it to manage your projects and organize related tasks and material is relatively easy. Finally, a significant number of readers eschewed all the bells and whistles of fancy tools like OneNote and Evernote and managed all their projects using basic text documents.

Now that we've had a chance to look over the top contenders for best personal project management tool, it's time to cast a vote for your favorite:

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