Like many others who are trapped in their cubicles all day I've developed an unhealthy fascination with task managers, todo lists, and project trackers. I want that extra edge - that little boost that will help me get more done in less time. Todoist is one little tool created to make managing your pending todos easier. Todoist is a free web based todo list app (in an already very very crowded market) that has some very special charm all its own. Built by Amir Salihefendic in "about a month", Todoist lets you create and sort projects in a very slick Ajax interface. Once you have a project you can create todo items within that project. Where the app really shines is in the customizations area. You can make text bold, underlined, and highlighted. You can also add links and due dates for items. By holding CRTL and using the arrow keys you can even indent a todo item or move it around in the list. One of the easy things you can do is create a item such as "Story Ideas" and quickly add your ideas under it using the * symbol to remove the checkboxes.
Another nice feature of Todoist is that it supports natural date keywords for setting due dates. This way you can type "tomorrow" or "next Friday" and it will understand and assign the correct date. You can then create a schedule for the week using the handy date search box. Unfortunately there is no way to share your projects at this point, but it wouldn't surprise me if that is in the works.
Todoist strives to be a very simple, fun, and easy to use tool that offers a lot of power to the average user. It doesn't offer you all the features you might expect from some of the more established alternatives, but that is by choice and what is there works wonderfully. Give it a look.
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2-14-2007 @ 12:03PM
Victor Agreda, Jr. said...
I use Backpack's to-do's, but with a twist that keeps it easy to create reminder's and easy to see/remember them.
-Use Backpack Widget to set reminders as things come up (I wish there was a natural language parser like Todoist or Gcal tho)
-Have Backpack hooked to Growl, so reminders float on top at the right time
The really nice thing is the ability to shuffle items in any web browser. So if I'm unable to get to my computer, I can use someone else's and move things around...
The fact that I can't reschedule (once an item has triggered) in the widget keeps me honest, because it's slightly more aggravating to MOVE than to SET the reminders!
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2-14-2007 @ 5:12PM
Ryan Sullivan said...
@Victor,
if you dig the whole backpack thing, there is also a FF extension to incorporate it into FF:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3616/
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1544/
Enjoy!
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4-21-2007 @ 6:11AM
Jeton said...
Update!
You can now use TODOIST with Gmail.
http://amix.dk/blog/viewEntry/19142
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