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Project Tracking Without Project Management Software: 69 Articles, One Connect Table, Zero Overhead

DEV Community·Frances·17 days ago
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I ran a full rewrite of our help center this year — 69 articles, six collections, a multi-step review process — without opening a single project management tool. I used a table in Waxell Connect. That was it. I'm still a little surprised this worked. A Connect table is a structured data object in a workspace: rows and columns, just like a spreadsheet, except agents can read from it, write to it, and update rows as they complete work. For a bounded project with a defined set of items moving through stages, a table can be the entire coordination layer — no external software required. Here's how the rewrite ran. Before this, I had a problem I kept solving badly The old pattern: I kept project status in a task tracker, and whenever I needed AI help with any of it, I'd manually copy the relevant rows into an AI chat session. The agent only knew what I pasted. Nothing about the broader project existed in the session — which articles were blocked, which had priority flags, what the collection structure looked like.…

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