I am a retired pc desktop tech with the latest software and anit-virus/firewall. I use this pc for everything, and I have had few outside issues affecting Sonar. we've been doing the recording thing twice a week for 4 months now, with HDMI audio being the biggest hiccup til I disabled on-board sound. The 2i2 is my default and only audio driver loaded.
 
PS- I blaze at uninstall!

You can use Excel to "brute force" project scheduling/planning.  You will have to manually create the Ghantt chart if you find that useful but excel will do math on dates.

Actually, I had a D'oh moment this morning
 
I am using a program called Scrivener for writing a book. It has everything I need to setup some records.
I can't believe it didn't immediately come to mind. It is inexpensive as well!
 
https://www.literatureandlatte.com/trial.php
 

ESharpe
...I have found project planning software too complex/detailed for my needs...

+1
 
I've had MS Project and a number of other PM software apps that I've had to use in the past, and, for my purposes, they were all WAY too complicated. I would take a look at some GTD (Getting Things Done) solutions. Be careful, though. A lot of the GTD apps that come back in a Google search are little more than glorified To-Do lists. I wasted my money on a couple of them; great for what they are, but useless for my purposes. I needed more than "What". I also needed "Who", "When", "Where", "Which" (as in: which client), and sometimes "How Much" and/or "Why".
 
So, I made of 2-part list of my requirements (the "must-haves" and the "nice-to-haves")...and struck out, but that was about 10 years ago, when I was still busting my butt for someone else. Now? I could use the discipline of GTD, but am still enjoying not having to go to work every day.

OneNote is free now, it seems, which is a better "general repository" than Project. Even for scheduling I would be leery to use Project, since most really want to see the Gantt chart anyway, and the effort to create/update it is an FTE unto itself.

Does OneNote have some sort of built in Gantt chart ability?  Or do you create it with brute force like Excel?

Check out Scrivener. It renders for podcasts, books, almost anything. It "stores" audio and video and it  is project and notecard based.  A little bit of a learning curve, but no way near as complex as Project.
It's got a trial period and is only $40..

Try this for Gantt Charts. Free. Works really well. http://www.ganttproject.biz