To-do lists are something that help me get through my daily life. Having tried many different to-do list solutions, I began wondering what everyone else is using. For a little while I tinkered with Todoist, which is a really nice online service. The best part about it is that you can deeply nest tasks, and create an easy-to-follow hierarchy.
With some inspiration from all of Lifehacker’s to-do list posts, I decided to move away from Todoist and began using a simple text editor to keep up with the things I needed to get done. Notepad just didn’t do enough for me so now I’m actually using Microsoft Word. I like it because I can create bulleted lists and highlight things that I have either completed or need to assign a high priority. As you can see, my list to the right is quite colorful thanks to the highlighting capabilities that most word processors have.
One of Lifehacker’s most recent posts also goes through some of the things to keep your to-do list “fresh” and organized. My to-do list is normally pretty long, which they say is a big no-no since you’ll never get around to all of the stuff. I, however, separate out the things I need to do by putting them on separate pages, with the first page being the most important and the last page being things that I just don’t want to forget about. I guess you could say that it has even turned into my “idea catcher” since I pretty much throw everything into this file.
So how do you manage your to-do list? Do you use an online service, a text file, or do you just keep it all in your head?
I use [jmedved.com] It stay on systray and I activate it with a shortcut whenever I need it to note something down. I have tabs for websites to review, games to review, webmaster tools… and so on, and a general-colector tab. After I finish something, I delete the line from there. This is how I do it.
For a while I was using [tadalist.com] but now I’m just relying on my Nokia phone.
i use [backpackit.com]
I’ve used several – Backpack and rememberthemilk were the latest two. I really like the idea of sharing my list where anyone in my workgroup can see it and edit it. My colleagues complained about having to go to yet another site or having another feed to subscribe.
I have gone to keeping my list on my wiki user page. It’s simple and everyone can see it and edit it. It’s working great.
I just started using [toodledo.com] and am very happy with it.
I don’t maintain a to-do list, but [mylifeorganized.net] ([mylifeorganized.net]) looks nice.
Wow! Thanks Pieter…I never heard of My Life Organized…Looks really good!
We are a German consulting company and so bored from all those different ToDo-List applications and portals that we simply wrote our own which is a complete new paradigm. All the available solutions simply copy the other ones with only some minor changes… It is the same thing with project management software. The software forces the people wo work the way it forces, and not the way users like to work! Our solution will be available October 1st. We´ll keep cybernetnews up-to-date.
That looks pretty cool, and I like how it has the simplicity of Notepad with better accessibility.
I did try that out briefly, but wasn’t all that fond of it. And using my phone as a to-do list will probably never happen until I get something with individual keys for the letters. I hate text messaging for that very reason.
I hadn’t tried that before, but it looks pretty cool with the integrated calendar.
Remember the Milk was cool because it is very well integrated with a lot of services. There is a Firefox extension (I think), modules for a lot of homepages, and now works with Google Gears. I found it a little too simple for me though, and a wiki page sounds like it might be hard to keep up with?
I had actually just tried that out as well after seeing it on some site (I can’t remember which one). I thought it was cool, but the best feature would have been the stats which they only have for pro accounts.
Chris was definitely right when he said wow! I didn’t see this program before but it looks like exactly what I need and it’s free, although the standard version does have some pretty appetizing features.
Sounds good Lars.