Monday, November 17, 2008

online to-do lists

I've been keeping my to-do list in a text file on my phone, and that together with my phone's calendar and my email are the things that pretty much run my life. Someday I'm sure that there will be a way to have all of those things integrated the way I want, most likely through an online service. To do so, they'll have to:
  • make it easy to make notes wherever I am, ideally with Jott
  • allow me to attach a "context" (and a time estimate)
  • integrate with a calendar
  • allow for task dependencies
Today I figured it was time again to check around and see if today is that day. It looks like it's not. The dependency feature is the hardest to find, and I'm a bit surprised it's still not very widespread. Here's some of the info I've gleaned from about a dozen sites:

Remember The Milk is integrated with Jott for free, which makes it most attractive for a trial; I'd like to try Hivemind for their dependencies, and I will if I do a paid subscription to Jott (eg. pay-as-you-go, because Jott is critical but I use it rarely).

1 comment:

dannielo said...

If you'd like a tool for managing your time and projects, you can use this application inspired by David Allen's GTD:

http://www.Gtdagenda.com

You can use it to manage and prioritize your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.