Since I'm obsessed with tools, I've tried all of these: Basecamp TODOs, Google Spreadsheet, Lighthouse, Trac, Pivotal Tracker, GitHub Issues. I find Pivotal Tracker and Lighthouse to work best.
Basecamp TODOs quickly pile up and become unmanageable as ideas keep pouring in.
I hate Trac just because of its design and less-than-perfect attention to detail.
Spreadsheet is very limited when it comes to commenting, and does not allow to view tasks using different groupings/filters without interfering with others.
Lighthouse just feels better than GitHub Issues as a traditional bug tracker. I'd say it is the best place to store the 1000s of ideas you will have.
Pivotal Tracker is probably best if you're working stably, nearly full-time. I haven't been fortunate enough to work on my own projects full time so far, and the planning thing really breaks down when week-to-week progress is overly unpredictable.
Personally, I'd recommend to stick with Lighthouse.
What kind of tracker do you want? You could start a Redmine/Bugzilla server, or you could write one-word "to-do's" on a whiteboard. There's a lot of work to be done, and one mechanism will not solve all your needs.
For something in the middle, I've found that a shared Google spreadsheet with status, priority, due date, title, and description columns gets the job done with near-zero overhead. Too much effort is wasted on learning/paying for/managing more complex todo lists.
A simple spreadsheet can also be useful to individuals. On that note, do either or both of you have a tool you like for individual use?
Currently, Google Spreadsheet and Lazy Meter are working best for me.
I use Google Spreadsheets to share "to do's" with my co-founder. We have a column for priorities and my co founder set it up such that items are colored coded according to priority level.
And I recently started using lazy meter for my day to day to do list. I try to put down at least 5 to do's at the start of the day and try to get though them. This has been working well for me.
Basecamp TODOs quickly pile up and become unmanageable as ideas keep pouring in.
I hate Trac just because of its design and less-than-perfect attention to detail.
Spreadsheet is very limited when it comes to commenting, and does not allow to view tasks using different groupings/filters without interfering with others.
Lighthouse just feels better than GitHub Issues as a traditional bug tracker. I'd say it is the best place to store the 1000s of ideas you will have.
Pivotal Tracker is probably best if you're working stably, nearly full-time. I haven't been fortunate enough to work on my own projects full time so far, and the planning thing really breaks down when week-to-week progress is overly unpredictable.
Personally, I'd recommend to stick with Lighthouse.