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Best Online To-Do Lists

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Re: Best Online To-Do Lists

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I've plugged this here before: I am a big fan of Tracks (http://getontracks.org/). I think I fall much more on the featureful side of the spectrum than people who like the text file approach or something spartan like Gmail tasks.

I'll have to check out Todoist - it sounds like they offer nice grouping features, which is something the vast majority of apps are badly lacking.

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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.

Not only is seeing your completed tasks fun, it's a psychological motivator to keep checking things off. I'd consider it a crucial feature of any task list!

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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.

I would think it would be a feature matrix - you know features down the left column and the different apps across the top. It would be really useful to have a review of each app that explains how they might improve a particular feature, or how it is lack support for a feature in the list but how you can do it another way or something.

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

how do you keep it synced with yourself wherever you're currently working from? Does cookie associated with each visitor have a unique id or something? Or is it a joke?

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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. no…

If you can skip the idea of using a subdomain for each user(They don't work with wildcard subdmains yet.), you can check AppEngine. You can get something working in a matter of hours, you you have any experience with programming.

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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.

I use org-mode and symlink ~/org/ to my dropbox folder. I love this setup, though I really wish Dropbox had an iPhone app and a public API. Both have been promised for quite some time.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I would think it would be a feature matrix - you know features down the left column and the different apps across the top. It would be really useful to have a review of each app that explains how they might improve a particular feature, or how it is lack support for a feature in the list but how you can do it another way or something.

This leads to product design where the goal is to have as many features as possible and not give a shit about user experience. It's not objective because you've subjectively assumed that feature count is the most important factor.
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