by Jay Hathaway on November 16, 2008 at 10:00 AM

MiniTask is a basic cross-platform organization app built on Adobe Air. The learning curve on this app is basically nil, and you'll soon be adding, checking off, and setting alarms for to-do items with ease. There aren't a ton of features, so it's not the greatest for the completely neurotic among us, but if you just need a simple, unfussy to-do list, give it a look. Let's a take a quick look at ...
by Lee Mathews on November 7, 2008 at 11:00 AM

I've been looking for a good, small note taking / gtd application for a while, and hadn't found anything that suited my needs until I came across Notable. To me, it's like a better, digital version of the $1 spiral bound notebooks I've always used. It's design is simple, yet perfectly suited to the way I take notes. The top of the application window contains a list of your notes and the bottom ...
by Nik Fletcher on October 10, 2008 at 10:00 AM

For better or for worse, the Apple AppStore has a bucketload of To-Do apps. If you're looking for a heavy-hitting [and location-aware] application designed specifically for the GTD mavens, you'll want OmniFocus ($19.99), and if you're looking for something a little lighter on the wallet, then Erica Sadun's free To-Do app might just be the answer. But over the last few months, I've used and grown ...
by Brad Linder on July 10, 2008 at 03:00 PM

Smart To Do List is a simple Windows utility for keeping track of your tasks. You can set up multiple projects for things like household chores, work projects, or vacation planning. Then you enter a list of tasks you need to accomplish for each project. Just check them off one at a time as you complete them. The program also includes some nice features like the ability to mark tasks as high, ...
by Joey Celis on July 8, 2008 at 07:00 AM

Having a personal assistant is great. If you need a cup of tea, your dry cleaning done or someone to walk the dog simply send your personal assistant out to do those things. If you lack the finances to retain the services of a personal assistant you can get one for free from macscheduler. Unfortunately, Scheduler for Mac will not get get you a cup of tea or any of the other stuff that a real live ...
by Jay Hathaway on July 2, 2008 at 04:00 PM

One of the longest ongoing debates in the productivity/Getting Things Done crowd is about which app works best for keeping tasks in order. Different factions support everything from power tools like OmniFocus to good old pen and paper. Apparently, though, some people miss classic command-line productivity apps like Lotus Agenda. If you're running a Unix-like OS, and you need a solid GTD system, ...
by Jay Hathaway on June 24, 2008 at 07:00 PM

If you're not one of the 125,000 people who got a chance to try out the cross-platform note capture app Evernote during its private beta, don't despair. Evernote has launched an open beta, so now everyone can give it a try. If you were already in the beta, does this change anything for you? Yes, indeed it does: there are now two types of Evernote accounts, free and premium. Free users keep all ...
by Jay Hathaway on May 16, 2008 at 08:00 AM

Things, the popular personal organization application from Cultured Code, is still in testing, but it already has a large userbase that is thoroughly addicted to its attractive to-do list features. It's no surprise, then, that when the clock turned to midnight in Australia and Things suddenly expired, users were up in arms. Hours later, users in the US experienced the same problem. Several people ...
by Jay Hathaway on April 8, 2008 at 09:00 AM

We've met a lot of users who take their to-do list applications very seriously. It seems every task management system -- from old-fashioned pen and paper to OmniFocus -- has its own fanatical following. Listaculous is a web-based to-do list that keeps it simple, but still offers tabbed organization, and it could be the right to-do list for you.
There's not much to Listaculous, which is what ...
by Grant Robertson on December 17, 2007 at 12:30 PM
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We're back with another episode of The Squadcast. This time, it's all about email. We talk to productivity expert Matthew Cornell about the five D's. Also, we take a look at our five favorite email add-ons for keeping your house in order. Download the show in 480p XviD (58MB) Take the jump for the show notes. ...
by Jason Clarke on November 5, 2007 at 08:00 AM

If there's one thing that users of David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) system suffer from, it's typically the temptation to mess with their system. Nothing feels better than having all of your stuff under control, except maybe having all of your stuff under control in a sexy new system. So if you've been rocking the same GTD application for too long and feel it's time to mix things up a ...
by Chris Gilmer on October 19, 2007 at 12:00 PM

It's Friday, and Download Squad wants to make sure that you have completed all your tasks for the week. And what better way to track and ensure they are completed than with an online app. We have covered a bunch of note taking and GTD apps in the past, but Vitalist is another one you might enjoy using. Vitalist offers a fresh outlook on the space. The interface is quick to grasp, well layed out ...
by Jason Clarke on August 20, 2007 at 07:00 AM

With the vast number of task management applications that are available, particularly for the Mac, you'd think that every possible feature has been done in a to-do list program. But maybe that's part of the problem. These programs are so feature-rich, that they end up getting in the way of actually getting things done, which is their purpose in the first place. Jesse Grosjean thinks so, which is ...
by David Chartier on July 25, 2007 at 12:59 AM

After all that teasing, 37signals has flipped the switch on a major upgrade to Backpack, their incredibly popular web-based PIM service that can store and organize lists, notes, pictures and files. As if features like sharing / collaboration and mobile phone access weren't cool enough, this major release takes Backpack productivity to entirely new heights.
One of the most interesting on the ...
by Jason Clarke on July 14, 2007 at 07:45 PM

We first looked at SimpleGTD back in June, and concluded that although it had a lot going for it, it lacked of the ability to view your action items by the Project they're assigned to. That one missing feature was the only thing that prevented us from recommending it wholeheartedly, since there really is a lot to like about SimpleGTD. Fast-forward a month and a half, and we're in the pleasant ...