I have one large (and several small) personal projects to accomplish during the next year or two of my life (including building a new house) and one professional programming project to start planning. I think an online to-do list or task manager would be a help in terms of planning, scheduling and reminding me. I do not need a mobile app, instead I'm interested in a solution with great desktop interface. What do you use? Do you recommend it? If so, why?
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#2I use wunderlist on my iOS devices and my windows PC at work.
I like it because it offers automatic synching over multiple devices as well as making it easy to separate out each of the projects I'm working on.
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#3It's so far from finished, but I'd be interested to see people think about where it's going:
https://github.com/richo/groundstation
You should be able to get something working by installing the dependencies, pulling in some github issues with ./slurp_github and then running airshipd
EDIT: Which is the logical successor to https://github.com/richo/TODO
I've tried most of the other platforms and none really delivered for me. At the very least I could find my old TODO anywhere since it was all online.
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#4Todoist. Why? Because it supports sub tasks and sub projects (this is pretty rare), freeform tagging so I control how I structure things, a wonderful UI and works offline by way of HTML5 storage.
I don't like that I can't hide tasks until they're nearing their due date however.
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#6Trello. Powerful for managing team tasks and simple for managing personal to-do(s).
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#7We 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.
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#8notepad.
* this is something I would like to achieve
-this is a sub step on the way to achieving it
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#9Workflowy.com
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#10As a student, I use Schooltraq (http://schooltraq.com).
It has both a web interface, Android app and an API so it's fairly ubiquitous for me. I find it simple and efficient.
Disclosure - I am a developer at Schooltraq.