The Real Deal: To do List Managers

To do List Managers

In your last podcast, you mentioned that the next topic was going to be about todo managers.

I've tried a number of these over the years, mainly to keep track of my tasks at work.

A couple that I've found most useful have been:
1. todotxt.com - A command line inteface script that keeps your todo list in a text file (todo.txt). All completed tasks are in a done.txt file. Originally it was created over at lifehacker.com.
(http://lifehacker.com/5155450/todotxt-cli-manages-your-tasks-from-the-command-line) and has been extended by various developers as an open source project.

2. Todoist.com - this is the todo manager I use now. I found RTM to be much too complicated, and this site has a very simple interface that makes it easy to add/update/complete tasks. I usually run it as a Prism app on my desktop and have it going all the time.

I like the idea of an online todo manager (rather then local) because I can access it from anywhere.

I find having a todo list helpful when I'm updating my yearly work evaluation. I just go through the list of things that I've done to come up with my list of accomplishments.

Thanks for a great podcast,

Craig