![]() ![]() Long live the paper to-do list with dates written in chronological order and little boxes drawn next to each for the satisfying check when you’re finished!Ī version of this first ran on Schechter’s blog. Gini’s suggestion: $14.99 for a pack of 12 in any color you desire. I’m pretty sure he was channeling me when he wrote, “For some, that will be as simple as a sheet of plain paper.” Costs for Each of your meetings and work events, Outlook Calendar is perfect for the job. My Suggested Tools: OmniFocus for iOS and OS X, Due App for iOS, Fantastical for OS X, Listary for iOS, and David Seah’s Emergent Task Planner. The app integrates the class schedule easily, allowing you to quickly manage. With integration for three major email clients, you have the ability to have your task manager at the ready while processing your email inbox. No matter what device you’re using, you can access Todoist (as long as you are able to connect with the Internet upon launch). For some, that will be as simple as a sheet of plain paper for others, robust task management systems like OmniFocus will do the trick. Todoist even integrates with Gmail, Outlook, and Postbox. No matter how good you are, it’s improbable that you can keep this all together without a system. Without a way to store the things you need to do, you will find yourself overwhelmed and you will notice things slipping through the cracks. It helps users to organize projects, focus on the right tasks at the right time, and get stuff done. In that he included ways to manage your to-do list. OmniFocus is a personal task manager made for busy people. A few weeks ago, he wrote a great blog post about keeping yourself more organized. In fact, it’s an ongoing conversation with the two of us. Michael Schechter and I have this conversation, as well. I don’t know if it’s because I spend most of my nights on planes, without access to the web, or if it’s because, like Allen, I get great satisfaction from physically checking something off my list, but I just can’t give up the paper method. So why can’t I give up my paper task list? Instapaper and a good old fashioned copy of a link into a draft blog post in WordPress work really well for me. This way, no matter where I am, I can always press Ctrl-Cmd-Option-t to file the current message to OF. I blog (a lot) and I read (a lot) and I use technology to help me do both of those things. The SendToOmniFocusspoon (spoon is Hammerspoon’s name for a package) provides support for filing items from several different applications to OF, including Mail.app and Outlook, the two mail applications I use. ![]() There is something visceral about physically crossing off something when you’ve finished it.” The Paper Task List I asked Allen what she uses and she lamented, “I still use my legal pad. I’m always the first one to jump on a new social network to check it out and determine if there is something there we can pass along to clients to make their lives more efficient.īut I keep going back to the tried and true method of a paper task list. I love Evernote and Instapaper and Dropbox and Google Reader and alerts in my calendar that tell me when it’s time to do something. Not from the aspect of how busy we are, but in how we track everything so balls don’t get lost. ![]() Yesterday afternoon, Allen Mireles and I were talking about our to-do lists. ![]()
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