Project management software - how do you manage your projects?

[James Masotti]

As things with real estate are starting to pick up for me I'm now getting to a position where I could feasibly have more than one project running at a time and am trying to look at options for how best to keep these straight and on top of all the deadlines. The obvious answer to me is a free web based project management tool like Asana, Trello, or Freedcamp (there are many more I'm just getting started looking). However I also acknowledge there may be other options available out there.

I'm curious how others who have scaled kept track of their time lines and contractors once they had 2 or 3 projects going at once. Did you use project management software? Excel template? Keep it in your head? When did you change from your initial project management tool for 2-3 properties to something more sophisticated for managing 4-10 projects at once.

Greatly appreciate everyone's thoughts and contributions!