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Re: TODO: design a better todo

Joshua Kifer — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:51:00 -0000

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

Re: TODO: design a better todo

Vasudev Ram — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:24:00 -0000

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/produ...

Re: TODO: design a better todo

Evan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:11:00 -0000

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.technologyrevie...\n\nhere's the relevant bit:\n\nI really like what I call logarithmic time planning

Re: TODO: design a better todo

http://www.io.com/~jimm/ — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:39:00 -0000

A friend turned me on to Life Balance (http://www.llamagraphics.co... 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.

Re: TODO: design a better todo

Aaron — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:54:00 -0000

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

Re: TODO: design a better todo

Andy — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:08:00 -0000

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

Re: TODO: design a better todo

Jesse Vincent — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:00:00 -0000

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."

Re: TODO: design a better todo

jamesturk — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:50:00 -0000

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)

Re: TODO: design a better todo

aurous — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:43:00 -0000

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.'

Re: TODO: design a better todo

jamesturk — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:27:00 -0000

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

Re: TODO: design a better todo

codemac — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:16:00 -0000

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

Re: TODO: design a better todo

h3rald — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:55:00 -0000

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.