I am hoping that the ipad will help me get better organized with e-mail, calendar, etc.....
[Ask HN] How do you organize your tasks/to-do lists?
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#12OneNote -- it has been said it's the best piece of software to come out of Redmond.
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#13Maybe it's just me, but maintaining a task list is about as troublesome as finding one that does just what you need.
I get e-mails for business related tasks. Outlook flags posts sent directly to me (as in, I'm in the TO: box, not part of a group or CC'ed) and I'll check them out.
Anything else is stuff I want to do. I don't often forget that I want to do something, thus no list necessary. If I do miss something... well there's always free time in the future.
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#14I find OmniFocus to be very helpful. The difficulty is making sure you enter everything. http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus/
Second the vote for OmniFocus. The key for me was synchronization between multiple computers and the iPhone. The iPhone app seems a bit like an afterthought (it's very slow to update, even when using their suggested tweaks), but synching between computers works great.
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#16I've tried a number of different options - online and local files - but I've settled on Vim's taskpaper plugin (see link below) and a tasks.taskpaper file that I keep in sync across machines using version control. I don't actually even use Taskpaper itself, since I don't really want another application for this - just a file with a reasonable, and hackable syntax. (The syntax is simple enough that it's dead easy to whip up a script for any kind of display or search or munging you might want to do with your tasks file.)
Taskpaper.vim plugin: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2027
Recommendations for highlighting taskpaper files: http://www.praytothemachine.com/evil/2007/11/06/taskpaper-an...
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#17You pretty much described http://culturedcode.com/things/iphone.
These were the best $10 I spent on an iPhone app by a very wide margin. It is simple, but not simplistic, and it is really well designed and executed.
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#18https://www.rememberthemilk.com/
Quite simple interface. Write your list, easy to manage times with the shortcuts (just go: ^ then type your due-by date, ie: tomorrow or friday and it'll set the date), and you can print it off if you still enjoy the nostalgia of pen and paper
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#19Not in any one single way :-)
I think you might want to look at http://www.toodledo.com/ - it is actually quite powerful (aka "complicated") but the amount of complexity is user configurable. So if you don't care for a certain category, you can just tell the system to ignore it.
The main advantage of something "online" is that it is easy to attach supplementary information to a to-do item - a file, a message-ID...
I use a hybrid of post-it notes, online calendar, paper notebook, toodledo, and e-mail. GTD it isn't - but it works.
[Edit - toodledo also allows you to assign tasks to other users. It is not quite implemented in the way I would like, but their deveoper is very user-friendly and they are always working on it, so I am optimistic.]
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#20The Hit List