Online Task Management

February 22, 2008

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I’ve spent a good deal of time this week looking at organization tools for my day job. It requires keeping track of little tasks that need to be done in a timely manner — this task every Monday, that task Tuesday and Thursday, and so on.

Well, my brain is already filled to the brim so this sort of information is better tracked with an external resource. I’ve using a task management/group productivity site called Basecamp, but its task management feature, while far from unusable, wasn’t quite full-featured enough for this level of detail.

I’m also testing Google Calendar so I was looking at task management that integrates with that, and I ran into Remember the Milk. It’s a very full-featured task management system with some nice tie-in with both Google Calendar and Gmail. But the user interface isn’t quite intuitive enough — features like postponing and assigning location (using Google map, no less) are very nice and fancy, but they don’t do much for me.

Then I ran into Todoist.com — and this one really hit me in the spot. Extensive keyboard shortcuts took about 30 minutes to read through and get used to, but beyond that, I think this thing is amazing. It has some nice tie-ins with Mac OS also.

Organizing information using my computer is one of my strengths — thanks to all these readily available tools, I do that much more than organizing my physical surroundings. With a task management tool in place, I feel ready to rise to a new level of productivity.

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