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I haven't found anything better than a written list. There's something really tactile and satisfying about crossing items off it. Every few days I rewrite the list onto the next page, drop things that are no longer relevant, expand items that are sticking around. The physical nature of the list, and the ritual of recopying it are really powerful, to me. Plus the fact that I recopy it frequently helps keep it from get…
As a fan of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I have developed WeekPlan. It allows you to keep your whole week and your goals in perspective. (Thanks to http://teuxdeux.com for some of the UI inspiration)
The feature I find most powerful and yet almost invisible is the Overall Quadrant indicator. It tells you in which quadrant (cf. the book) you are spending most of the time this week by showing a different color. Your goal is to have it green, Quadrant II, important tasks but not urgent. Trying to get the green light has been very efficient to help me keep focused on what matters.
(I developed most of it in eight hours using a combination of asp.net MVC and jQuery and was really impressed by the productivity you get out of these two.)
https://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
I use http://orgmode.org/
While on-topic, just want to clear up misconceptions of org-mode. It is different from all the software/website task managers mentioned here. You can think of it as a meta-organization tool. A org software factory if you will. You can customize it to exactly how you want your thoughts, tasks, notes, etc organized.
See http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html for an idea of the sheer breadth of options available to make it work exactly for you.
This may sound like a lot of work, but there are a lot of sensible defaults, which is why most org-mode tutorials that scratch the surface make it seem like a sibling to other task management software. The base case the OP wants would simply be:
S-M-: create new TODO
C-c C-t D: mark TODO as DONE
I like it because it's free, and I can even sync it with my iphone free - just have to pay $1.99 for the app
Nice clean interface, has a nice Google Chrome extensions, and for me it is intuitively how I order things - by date and importance. I just use "Project -> Task" to signify next actions within projects
https://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
I've also used Basecamp, but I like having my To Do list integrated with my email.