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Posted by Ken
May 14, 2011 at 04:18 AM
Ken wrote:
>I am a
>Toodledo user, and am using it in conjunction with GotToDo as well as Pocket
>Informant. UTD is very similar in concept to GotToDo, and I looked at it some time ago,
>but decided not to switch. As I am beginning to pack for my trip, I will give it
>consideration. GotToDo is not exactly what I want for packing, but it is a great for
>many other uses.
Well, I spoke a bit too soon. I found out today that the developer of GTD has abandoned his app. So, I have downloaded UTD and am testing it out. It does not have an easy method of creating durable checklists, but I can probably create a template in TD to handle that. Easy come, easy go!
—Ken
Posted by Edwin Yip
May 14, 2011 at 10:32 AM
Hi Ken,
I have just adopted a Samsung Galaxy S Android phone (am very satisfied, BTW), and I have tried at least 10 of the ‘to do list’ apps those can be found on the Android Market.
Firstly I chose Astrid (which is popular), before I noticed Wunderlist has a Android version which I finally have chosen. Reasons:
Most importantly, it allows me group tasks into lists (that’s two level organization, as you mentioned), with a very beautiful and neat interface. Although it would have been perfect if it supports subtasks.
On the other hand, there are other Android apps that supports subtasks, but the implementation is not OK - the design is faulty in that they don’t take into account the small screen size on a smartphone as compared to a desktop computer screen, this is the same error Microsoft has made when designing Windows Mobile (at least prior to Windows Phone 7, I have used a Windows Mobile 6.5 HTC phones for years, and I must say, my current Samsung Galaxy S is 100 times better!)
Second, it has a web version, the UI and UX is also great.
And it has reminders (unfortunately, it only send email notifications, not directly alarms you on the phone (which is what I want)).
Hope it helps.
Personal rant: In the past years I’ve been waiting for a ‘small project management tool’ for Windows like OmniFocus for Mac, and actually I’ve tried over 50 including the desktop programs and web-based ones, none is OK to me. If I still can’t find one until I have more resources to make my own, I’ll develop my own one. As a matter of fact, I’ve put up a site collecting ideas at:
http://ProjectOutliner.com. (If you know OmniFocus, you might noticed that it can be developed base on Writing Outliner)
—-
Edwin Yip
Turn MS Word into a full-featured outliner software
http://WritingOutliner.com
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 14, 2011 at 04:05 PM
Ken wrote:
>—Web-based companion app for synching (and possibly a PC and/or Mac client)
>—Subtasks
>—Durable lists
>—Reminders
I believe that GQueues covers all that and more; the offline version is not a native Android app, it’s an HTML5 mobile version of the web service, which is very powerful.
In the meantime, Google Tasks got an API http://code.google.com/apis/tasks/index.html which means that you can expect many programs to sync with it in the future.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 14, 2011 at 04:12 PM
P.S. For reference, the improvements most sought after by users for Google Tasks were:
- Ability to create repeating tasks
- Reminders and notifications
- Sharable task lists
- Tasks API and synchronization [DONE]
- Visual distinction for overdue tasks
( see http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/top-tasks-for-google-tasks.html )
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 14, 2011 at 04:53 PM
Edwin wrote:
>Personal rant: In the past
>years I’ve been waiting for a ‘small project management tool’ for Windows like
>OmniFocus for Mac, and actually I’ve tried over 50 including the desktop programs and
>web-based ones, none is OK to me.
Edwin, I’d be curious for your list of try-outs.
For myself, I now need to focus on sharing tasks with my collaborators, so personal tools won’t do anymore. Prior to this I had tested many tools like the powerful Achieve Planner http://www.effexis.com/ but ended up working with regular outliners.