DISQUS

Fabio Cevasco · 1 year ago

Well, for me it's quite simple:\n\nTodoist (http://todoist.com/) is the best *online* todo list and Tudumo (http://www.tudumo.com) is the best *offline* one. Both free (for now, at least), both simple and both really slick and neat.

codemac · 1 year ago

Check out using org-mode in emacs for your todos. You'll be surprised how it covers EVERY base possible.

James · 1 year ago

Fabio: todoist is very interesting, I'm going to spend some time using it and will mention it in my next update on the todo\n\nas far as emacs or tudumo, web-based is big requirement for me (should have been rule #0).. as i think it is for many people these days. also emacs assumes a developer or at least someone fairly tech-savvy and although I too look at this with a developer's eye, I would hope that the ideal todo list could be used for any number of tasks. \n\nI think a webapp is much more user friendly + painless to start using than software that has to be installed let alone emacs

aurous · 1 year ago

I've tried many PIMs and todo lists. I've always found due dates to be clutter, and having to make that extra decision and enter the extra value is a deterrent to using it. I can eyeball my list, and immediately know each item's urgency.\n\nMy search for the perfect to-do ended recently when I found todo.txt (http://todotxt.com). It's a shell script that operates on a text file. Nothing could be simpler or more hackable. To share data between machines, I very easily added 'push' and 'pull' commands to send the file to a USB-hosted Git repository - now my todo list is fully-versioned, backed-up, and portable. I haven't looked back.'

James · 1 year ago

ok I just watched the video + my command line obsession forces me to admit that that is a great solution. revision control is a nice touch as well. \n\ncome to think of it a command line interface to a webapp (existing or new) would be a nice idea.. it wouldn't be too hard for any of those with a simple API (i know voo2do has a restful api for instance)

Jesse Vincent · 1 year ago

You might want to look at Hiveminder, my current timesink. One of the things it does, hide until" dates feel a little like your date range concept and there's nothing easier than our 'braindump' textarea for creating a whole slew of tasks at once."

Andy · 1 year ago

Have a look at this: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/

Aaron · 1 year ago

Another vote for org-mode in emacs.\n\nIf you don't like emacs, you can try TODO.txt (http://todotxt.com/)

http://www.io.com/~jimm/ · 1 year ago

A friend turned me on to Life Balance (http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/) when it was a Newton app. Ported to the Palm, it also has a feature-complete desktop. It's hierarchical, supports fuzzy dates (indirectly; things climb to the top of your list as the date gets closer), and much more.\n\nPersonally, I use an in-Emacs Wiki for my to-do list.

Evan · 1 year ago

good luck with your app -- you're right, todo lists are a very personal thing, developing something that flexes to its users' needs would be very cool.\n\nafter reading your blog i came across this tr article:\nhttp://www.technologyreview.com/blog/boyden/21925/\n\nhere's the relevant bit:\n\nI really like what I call logarithmic time planning

Vasudev Ram · 1 year ago

Very interesting post.\n\nI liked the ideas of fuzzy dates and logarithmic time planning mentioned by Jim M and Evan; also, the entire article (How to Think by Ed Boyden) linked to by Evan was pretty interesting too ...\n\n- Vasudev Ram\nwww.dancingbison.com\nQuick and easy PDF creation toolkit:\nwww.dancingbison.com/products.html

Joshua Kifer · 1 year ago

I used to work for Jott, and they do a bit of what you're asking for (fuzzy dates) -- and you can enter your new todos over your cell phone with only your voice.\n\nhttp://jott.com