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To-Do Desklist is a simple, free GTD app with nice visuals
by Lee Mathews Nov 18th 2008 at 9:00AM
Jay recently reviewed MiniTask, an ultra- simple to-do list application built on the Adobe Air platform. If you're like me and would prefer to avoid installing yet another oversized Adobe product on your Windows PC, take a look at To-Do Desklist.
Like MiniTask, you can add an alarm to an item and hotkeys are supported for adding new tasks and showing your to-do items. Desklist also allows you to assign priority and add extended notes to tasks.
Alerts can be displayed in any corner of your screen, and they're fully skinnable. The program comes with light, dark, and sky themes built in, but you're free to set your own background color or image and change the display font. You can also tweak opacity settings for the alerts.
The full task window allows you to filter items by priority. When your list gets lengthy, it's a helpful way to make sure you're focusing on critical tasks.
I'd like to have option to hide alerts (like MiniTask) or collapse task items, but for simple lists, Desklist is still a good option. It's freeware for Windows only.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matt said 9:25AM on 11-18-2008
Are there any to do list programs that sync with all the computer you use? I would love to have a to do list that was the same on my work, home, and laptop computers. Kinda like the way my bookmarks and autofills are synced in Avant Browser.
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Lee Mathews said 9:29AM on 11-18-2008
You'd probably be best off with a web app like Remember the Milk or Toodledoo - TD has Outlook synchronization, if you need it.
schigi said 11:37AM on 11-18-2008
The best one - http://www.abstractspoon.com/
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Jiri Novotny (Dextronet) said 4:59PM on 11-19-2008
Hi Matt,
We offer online online to-do list application too, at www.swifttodolist.com - it's quite easy to use and with attractive design. It works with all browsers.
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dan said 1:39AM on 12-04-2008
For implementing GTD you can use this web-based application:
http://www.Gtdagenda.com
You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version is available too.
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