Lifehacker linked to a simple Excel Gantt Chart template. It’s a clean, simple design that doesn’t do any calculations or magic.

The designer, David Seah, has a lot of interesting tools that he’s put together, as well as thoughtful posts on his site. I find the Emergent Task Planner a very cool thing. I’ll have to give it a try. I hope he makes the current version available as a PDF. Here, David discusses of an earlier version, with usage suggestions.