Comments on: Beginning to settle on a task manager..

By: Erin Pearce-Zuazua

Erin Pearce-Zuazua — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:34:14 +0000

i started the gtd quest about a month ago… and i came to your site looking for your grease pencil tool, but now that i see you are gtd-ing i must comment now, i haven’t read your previous posts to see if you’ve checked it out, but i am really lovin Pocket Informant! the author is super responsive and it syncs with my google calendars (all of them) i am really new to gtd, but it fits my needs really well. anyhoo, stoked to find out you are a gtd resource now as well as an awsome animation resource

By: Larry Vasquez

Larry Vasquez — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:44:36 +0000

lol, that’s awesome. I came across toodle not to long ago. It’s a great, inexpensive app. that I use on my iPhone. Nice find.

By: Mike Jutan

Mike Jutan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:55:53 +0000

Hey Jason!!
I think we met a while back, maybe at Siggraph or the Maya API Conference or somethin’?!

Anyhoo, came across your site and it’s super awesome how I am going through the exact same thoughts as you at the moment about GTD and how to use it. I really liked your post on using GTD for Animators… very cool. I’m an R&D Engineer for Computer Graphics here in San Francisco, and I find that I’m super organized at work because we have task management solutions and so on… I find that my absurd disorganization only happens at home, because I am “too busy” to care about day-to-day stuff like buying fluoride rinse, calling the dentist, or fixing the broken towel rod in the bathroom.

I’ve been working at it for a couple months now and I’m REALLY benefiting from the GTD goodness for my home life. I ended up settling on the Appigo “ToDo” app for my iPhone, and they have a free connection to ToodleDo. I agree – the ToodleDo web interface is pretty hard to work with, but I mainly use it as a backup so I know if I ever lost my iPod I’d still have my tasks. I also use if if I need to dump a huge amount of info into some tasks, so I can copy/paste from my email into a new task in ToodleDo, and then sync back to my phone. It’s pretty awesome and I am really benefiting from it a bunch… good times!

Good luck with it!! It’s definitely great, and working wonders for me already.

Cheers!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:20:13 +0000

I don't know if this is any help. But, I thought of you when I saw the article. Turn Gmail Into Your Ultimate GTD Inbox

By: jason

jason — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:42:36 +0000

woah presdo is AWESOME!

By: pete

pete — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:22:11 +0000

I love this quest of yours!
I find it so funny that with all the amazing open software available there still isn’t a fully functioned task/to do list.
In case you hadn’t heard google just split their task list off into it’s own project. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/tasks/

But still, I want:
Single user and group based tasks. (task delegation might be nice too)
sub-tasks
Third task state would be would be lovely too: pending active and complete

one really nice thing would be a natural language api like http://www.presdo.com has where you could add a task and it’s due date by just typing ‘finish making task manager next week’ and it would assume friday 17:00 as the due date.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:52:27 +0000

I’ve really been surprised how much I’ve enjoyed Toodledo since switching from RTM. One huge thing I miss in Toodledo, though, is full offline support. RTM did a great job in that area with their Google Gears support.

Right now I’m using Outlook for task management so it isn’t as huge of a deal since that supports my offline needs but I’d really like to be able to go back to Thunderbird.