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Re: Best Online To-Do Lists

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Post by xayide » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 3:51 PM UTC

jeffesp wrote: post #6

This is more of a subjective 'this is what works for me' review than an objective analysis of the various offerings. Not that worthwhile in my opinion. Try them each and see what works best for you - this article isn't going to help you much.

Yeah, I stopped reading when I realized that his Minimalism criteria (nothing he didn't want) was so completely confounded by his Completeness criteria (everything he did want). Although it was nice to see a list of web based task managers all in one place.

Re: Best Online To-Do Lists

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Post by anovaskulk » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 4:01 PM UTC

I want Sandy back. :)

No really, anything like it out there, or will I have to make my own?

Re: Best Online To-Do Lists

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Post by Elepsis » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 4:46 PM UTC

huherto wrote: post #5

I have tried different approaches over the years. The best seems to be to have a todo.txt file and use my favorite text editor. It is very flexible, I indent to show subtasks, I can make notes anywhere. Use - as a bullet for uncompleted tasks and + for completed tasks.

I have tried RTM on and off, but I usually end up back at this method as well (though I use x for completed tasks). Add sync with something like Windows Live Sync, SugarSync or Dropbox and it's portable enough, too.

Re: Best Online To-Do Lists

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Post by surki » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 5:06 PM UTC

huherto wrote: post #5

I have tried different approaches over the years. The best seems to be to have a todo.txt file and use my favorite text editor. It is very flexible, I indent to show subtasks, I can make notes anywhere. Use - as a bullet for uncompleted tasks and + for completed tasks.

If you are using emacs, give org-mode a try. I also keep this todo lists in git repo to sync among various machines that I work with.

Re: Best Online To-Do Lists

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Post by bendtheblock » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 5:27 PM UTC

I built my own: http://www.reallygoodtodolist.com

It's based around how I use a todo list: I have categories for work, home, projects etc. and I add the tasks to each. I use 'Summary as Prose' as a starting point for my journal. The sign-up is low friction - a random key is generated that you can use to log in from anywhere. Features aren't brilliant but it does what I need.

Re: Best Online To-Do Lists

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Post by jshen » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 5:52 PM UTC

jeffesp wrote: post #6

This is more of a subjective 'this is what works for me' review than an objective analysis of the various offerings. Not that worthwhile in my opinion. Try them each and see what works best for you - this article isn't going to help you much.

I have no idea what an objective analysis of todo lists would look like. A simple list of features? That wouldn't be very useful.

Re: Best Online To-Do Lists

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Post by mannicken » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:01 PM UTC

huherto wrote: post #5

I have tried different approaches over the years. The best seems to be to have a todo.txt file and use my favorite text editor. It is very flexible, I indent to show subtasks, I can make notes anywhere. Use - as a bullet for uncompleted tasks and + for completed tasks.

I've written a web-thingy for this. I enter a bunch of tasks in the text area and then I can either continue editing them from text field or use GUI. Bonus: it understands (with some restrictions) natural language ("due two days from now", "project blablabla.blehblehbleh", "high priority"), unlimited nested projects and is available from anywhere :)

Re: Best Online To-Do Lists

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Post by middayc » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:16 PM UTC

uh, time for shameless plugging again

http://www.qwikitodo.com - no sign up, collaborative, wiki-ish editing, past revisions

Re: Best Online To-Do Lists

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Post by lukifer » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 7:26 PM UTC

fogus wrote: post #2

My favorite online todo list is Now Do This. Simple and brilliant. http://www.nowdothis.com/ -m

Love it. The only thing I wish is that completed tasks would be shown somewhere in strike-through. Half the fun of using a to-do list is basking in the feeling of accomplishment when tasks are complete.

Re: Best Online To-Do Lists

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Post by crux » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 8:06 PM UTC

I've had this idea for a while for an app called ghostbin. It basically a note-taking (or todo) webapp that you didn't have to log in to—the blurb I wrote to remember it was,

'[username].ghostbin.com has a single input box with a submit button. at any time any user can enter a note which will be submitted to that account.

if they want to review or edit their notes, they can enter a password and see the admin page. notes can be viewed, maybe blog style'.

The idea was that when you're on the go, or you simply don't already have a cookie in your browser, you can dump some notes from a meeting, or something to followup later, just by going to an easily memorable URL, and then deal with actually managing the things later on, when you've got the time.

I have no idea how I'd build the thing, though.