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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from halfSpinDoctor]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Toodledo.com:

1.      How important is it? [Check]
2.      How long to complete? [Check]
3.      Where is it done? [Contexts -- Check]
4.      What order do things have to be done? [MISSING]
5.      Who else might have the same task? [Shared Todo Lists - Check]
6.      Is it done by phone, Skype, email, text, in person, or manually? [Contexts -- Check]
7.      What time of day do I prefer doing it? [MISSING]
8.      Does it combine with other tasks at the same time? [MISSING]
9.      Is it complicated or simple? [Based on #2? Also can do sub-todo lists]
10.  Is it work-related or personal? [Contexts -- Check]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from kelbo]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The features you propose sound very much like how Merlin Mann uses Onmifocus on his titular blog: http://www.43folders.com/about which is implementing the workflow put forth by David Allen in Getting Things Done (http://www.davidco.com/)  The idea that tasks have &quot;contexts&quot;, such as a task of &quot;need to discuss life insurance&quot; might have a context of &quot;Wife&quot; since she would be required to finish the task, is central to the GTD plan.  Similarly, a task of &quot;buy toilet paper&quot; would have a context of &quot;Grocery Store&quot;.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from pyite]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Online service for task management, with API for customization:

http://www.attask.com/

The task management engine is pretty good, but send some suggestions to their marketing department.  Or maybe just send over this article.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Raymee]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@BryanK2 and others

Ditto - a good PA is worth their weight in gold.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from chrono117]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I use a Word Document on Google Docs (SkyDrive should work just as well, maybe even DropBox.) I arrange everything chronologically with a short list of what must be done ASAP at the top. Everything is color coded (i.e. red for finances, purple for work, orange for appointments, pink for family, blue for TV shows...).

I can cut, copy, and paste from any computer or smartphone. I can write as much or as little as I need to remember what to do and can scan a whole week, year, or decade worth of events at a glance. I never delete anything, I move it to another page where it becomes an easy to access and read record of what I've done and what my priorities were.

Recurring events like a MWF schedule or peoples' birthdays are a bit tedious to enter, so I don't recommend it for students. I work on a different project every few weeks, so it's perfect for me, and maybe you?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tmcmh]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Trello -- their concept is the &quot;list of lists.&quot; Each item is a &quot;card&quot; (in a list you see only its name) and sometime all you need is the name and what list it's on. It's easy to drag things from list to list, or add glorious detail -- links, checklists, comments, due-date, color-coding. You can also do collaborative stuff where several people share lists, assign responsibility and so on.

It's free and there is no advertising. There are apps for iPhone and Android. It's a huge amount of fun to update your Trello boards on your computer, then next time you check the mobile version, watch it synch.

The team behind Stack Overflow built it. I think it also gets a lot of use as an agile-development tool but for me it's the perfect personal-productivity solution.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from MadScientist67]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I am surprised that I did not see anyone talk about Any.Do on here. Their website is www.any.do. 

I've been using it for about a year now. I tried using Outlook tasks and then different note applications, but I would get busy and forget to check the notes thus negating the usefulness of the list. 

Any.Do has the option to put tasks in folders, so you can sort by category. You can also have it list items by date and you can organize them yourself by the amount of time that a given task will take. The app works on iOS, Android, and is available as an extension for Chrome and can be accessed via the web as well. 

It syncs between all the devices and has the option for notes (which can be checked off individually as subtasks) and time-based reminders. When a reminder is triggered, a popup will appear on all active devices, so whether you're at your computer, tablet or phone you'll still get the reminder. 

The only thing that it doesn't do that I would wish for would be triggering reminders based on location. For example, I wish I could have it remind me to stop and get milk on the way home as I get close to the grocery store rather than having to gamble on setting the time of the reminder to fire just close enough to the store. 

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from maxonw]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I've always done a haphazard job and tracking my own tasks and goals.  My system has moved from paper to a wide variety of task management apps and services including the calendar.  I finally decided to start a company with some friends and try and solve some of these problems.  The first feature set we're going after is in getting you where you need to be when you need to be there.  If anyone wants to give it a try search for NeverLate in the Apple App store.  I'd love to hear your thoughts.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from azakhary]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have been working on almost this exact application since 2004 when I started my professional career as a web developer and actually needed efficient time management strategies. The grand plan was (and still is) for the application to learn your patterns and predict what you can complete in a given day, taking into account the priority of your tasks and the consequences for being late.

You're a week late making your bed, but it's April 13th and you still haven't touched your 1040. One of those is far more important than the other and will probably take all the unscheduled time you have left today. The application will make that determination and give you a prioritized to-do list. I've also integrated some other useful modules to this application that play nicely with the to-do list. (e.g. You are going grocery shopping today. You're out of milk and getting dangerously low on toilet paper. Add it to your grocery list?)

Unfortunately, the very issues I am trying to solve prevent me from making much progress on this personal project (getting married didn't help matters -- now I have &quot;two&quot; jobs). Since no one's going to pay me to write personal applications for my own benefit and I have to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads, I imagine this project will be done around the time I die. 

Maybe my husband will be able to use it to help schedule my memorial service around calling the life insurance company and picking up some toilet paper...

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from reboog711]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You need to read up on the &quot;Getting Things Done&quot; methodology.  

Although, if memory serves me the book says most people have lists of 300-500 items.  If you're only around 100; then that is pretty good.

There are apps around it; although I never found one I liked.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from whtllnew]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@RxF

[.... if you stopped gazing at your own navel for five minutes at a time, and rid yourself of the illusion that your daily actions are of any interest...]

Way to preach abstinence in a brothel!

All the proof Scott needs that his daily actions are of SOME interest to us is the fact that you, me and everyone else here comes back for more and even comments on blog posts like this.  And don't forget, there are days when our choice is between this kind of blog post and no blog post at all.  Given that choice I choose a daily action post.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Kingdinosaur]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott, I just noticed, your dream to-do list app doesn't have a common tasks feature.  These would be the things you'd do relatively often enough you need it on a list, but not all the time stuff you don't have to list.  For example you could have talk to lawyer as an item and when you click on it, all you need to add is a few quick items at most.  Ideally it'd also look at your calendar and your lawyer's and auto schedule an appointment, but that'd be a reach feature.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from callcopse]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Re: Update
Recent versions of Android have the 'unlock to any app' function built in. Nyah.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from MTBob]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&gt;&gt;This productivity app could also be made into a productivity game... The more tasks done, the more points accrued. People online can compete with their friends or other people with the same app.

Turn it into a game, make it secure, and I would buy a phone and this app for all my employees....
Not just points, but how about for cash.  Tie it into a dashboard back-end for stats and you have a billion dollar app.

Was this Scott's secret sellable idea?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from RxF]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Perhaps if you didn't commit yourself to writing 1380 superflous words about what is, after all, a pretty hundrum life, you might free up time to do some of the other tasks you mention, though they also sound pretty hundrum. what is more, if you stopped gazing at your own navel for five minutes at a time, and rid yourself of the illusion that your daily actions are of any interest, you would be in the happy position of being able to get on with your life without obsessing over whether to put the milk in your tea first, or whatever is your current problem.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dooz]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You have just defined the app that I've been wanting to build for quite some time. I even registered a domain name for it! Hey if you fund it, I'll build it! ;-)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from realtycaffeine]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As a recovering engineer turned Realtor (it's a long story) I am also dealing with lots of tasks. Right now I have several hundred things I am tracking and after trying lots of tools to help have settled on a methodology and an app. The method is called Getting Things Done from a book by David Allen (GTD for short) and Evernote is the app. 

There is a cool website that shows how to manage these tools easily and with good speed. You can find it at www.TheSecretWeapon.org. The videos help understand the tools and the method but I would recommend reading David Allen's book.

There is a learning curve but at the end it seems to work for me. Evernote allows you to use yoru smartphone, computer, any browser and access your tasks, notes, pdf files, pictures, etc. Very powerful but it is not obvious as to how to implement all this. The phone app has a cool feature that allows you to hit a button on the widget and just talk. It transcribes to a note in evernote and files it for you to review when you have more time. 

Lots more there so go check out thesecretweapon.org for the videos.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from anothermick]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[i have a theory that you have recently marked &quot;generate buzz through controversial blog posts&quot; off your list of thing to do and are now working on &quot;engage tech-nerds with thoughtful but pragmatic ideas&quot;
i'm thinking about going through your posts and looking for a pattern using your warning as a marker...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Ardent_Eccentric]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This productivity app could also be made into a productivity game... The more tasks done, the more points accrued. People online can compete with their friends or other people with the same app.

And you can deter cheating on the game by requiring a photo of each task done. 

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Zowie]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hbmindia, I'm interested in your Excel file. Please mail me: test at kitteh dot eu]]></description>
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