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Re: Ask HN: Your favorite to-do list or task manager?

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Post by mtrimpe »

dsyph3r wrote: post #7

We recently released our visual task management app DropTask ( https://www.droptask.com ). It allows you to split your tasks across projects, categorize them using nested sub grouping and schedule them easily using the week view.

When I first saw DropTask I thought it would allow you to take multiple perspectives and have a grouping per perspective, like urgency, compononent, assignee, customer value, etc., etc.

I've been looking for that for ages and was so disappointed when I saw it wasn't...

If you're still open for it you might want to consider adding what are essentially additional views to help organize your tasks from different perspectives. You can even add something like a 'scale' view to help sort these things on e.g. a linear scale.

Anyhow, just my €0.02 :)

Re: Ask HN: Your favorite to-do list or task manager?

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Post by jsherer »

I build TodoPaper and combine it with TaskPaper and DropBox to sync across my PCs and Macs and iPhone. It's a plaintext file format that also has a number of open source projects that highlight the files when you work in Vim, Notepad++, etc. Example of the format:

  Project:
  - task
  - task @done
    - sub task 
      Notes for this task.
    - sub task @due(2013-03-03)

Re: Ask HN: Your favorite to-do list or task manager?

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Post by dsyph3r »

mtrimpe wrote: post #12
dsyph3r wrote: post #7

We recently released our visual task management app DropTask ( https://www.droptask.com ). It allows you to split your tasks across projects, categorize them using nested sub grouping and schedule them easily using the week view.

When I first saw DropTask I thought it would allow you to take multiple perspectives and have a grouping per perspective, like urgency, compononent, assignee, customer value, etc., etc. I've been looking for that for ages and was so disappointed when I saw it wasn't... If you're still open for it you might want to consider adding what are essentially additional views to help organize your tasks from different perspec…

Thanks for the feedback. DropTask is still at a relatively early-stage so we are constantly working on adding new features. The ability to see tasks from different grouping perspectives sounds really interesting.

Re: Ask HN: Your favorite to-do list or task manager?

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Post by waxjar »

I just use a piece of paper.

For coding I use comments and a git alias (git todo) that returns the comments.

    todo     = !git grep --color=always --no-index --exclude-standard --heading --break --ignore-case -e ' FIX: *' -e ' TODO: *' | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//'
Long term stuff I keep in Notational Velocity, among a load of other things.

Re: Ask HN: Your favorite to-do list or task manager?

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Post by skycocker »

I have recently made a small todo webapp because I needed one myself, it's still deep in beta, but besides few UI flaws on WebKit works pretty well: http://www.rodosapp.com/

You can add a new group just for yourself or add some people to it, you do it by typing their email address to "add user" field. Of course that user has to be already registered in the app.

Re: Ask HN: Your favorite to-do list or task manager?

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Post by gorbachev »

Wunderlist.

I was using Things before, but the rip-off pricing and lack of web and non iOS clients made me switch.

I like Wunderlist for its simplicity and the "GTDishness".

Supports multiple projects (or lists), sub-tasks, reminders, repeated tasks.

No support for tags, and the recent Wunderlist2 release dropped support for the great "smart dates" functionality, which was an absolute killer feature on their old version.

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