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A To Do list software should have the following features.
1- A To Do list software should not be complicated.
2- Must be Easy to learn
3- Should have a user friendly interface.
4- Should not have isolated features but all features work/fit together.
5- Should not store my tasks in proprietory format, I should be able to store my tasks in an open store such as an XML file. So that I could retrieve them when I switch my To Do list software.
To Do List Softwares
Jul 22
How often you forget to do things? Do you miss deadlines due to your busy schedule or you completely overlook the important tasks? If the answer is yes to any of these questions then you need to have a “To Do List Software” in your life. The best way to organize and manage your tasks is with to do list software also known as task software.
To do list software gives many advantages over to-do list on papers. With a to-do list software on your computer, you can easily create new tasks and sub tasks, edit them, organize them, sort them filter them, group them with tags and tabs, repeat them with regular intervals, set a reminder on them, prioritize them and much more.
When you will use to do list software on your computer you will: -
- Never forget important tasks.
- Won’t rely on those bundles of papers.
- Would be easily able to prioritize your tasks.
- Reduce your tensions.
- Always be on time.
- Considered more trustworthy.
- Focus on what exactly needs to be done.
I get around 150 emails a day. Of those 15 are actionable – 20 of them are informative, and 100 are approximately not useful.
Here’s my daily routine that I try to adhere to! I am only 50% successful in following this though.
Come into work – and go through all emails that are unread. I read from most recent to oldest – the reason being that I want to catch the most recent item on the thread rather than replying prematurely.
For every actionable item – I create an Outlook task and set a due date if the task is not immediately completable. If it is a short term task, I do it right then.
Once all my emails are read – I look at my outlook tasks and review them. I don’t go from the top to bottom, I usually take ones based on priority. Sometimes I will fall into a trap and avoid an action I know I need to complete.
I try to avoid checking emails except once an hour – I need to be somewhat response though since urgent situations do come into my email which require response time in minutes.
I try and work task one by one – it keeps me much calmer and focussed.
07/16/2009
I wrote a few weeks ago about my aim to totally revamp my home office and make it a truly productive home office . Well, I just thought I would provide an update as to where I am with this. After deciding to proceed, I removed everything out of my home office and I was amazed with how much clutter I had accumulated over the years. There was no way that I was going to move all of this back into my new office. I removed my wall units and filled the walls to make it a clear canvas! I then had the walls painted and bought a new carpet.
07/16/2009
I’ve been a fan of Google’s Calendar feature for a few years, as well as a user of Gmail for all of my email needs since before it came out of beta testing. Google recently answered one of my personal productivity “wish list” items with its launch of a new “Tasks” management system. The Tasks, available from Google Labs, enables you to add items to a virtual “to do” list, assign due dates, and document details in notes. The feature even gives “type A” personalities like me the satisfaction of checking a box when you’ve completed a task and seeing it crossed off your list.
07/16/2009
Do it, defer it, and delegate it; the two minute rule; and organizing your practice Today’s guest post is by Larry Port, Founding Partner and Chief Software Architect for Rocket Matter, LLC . This post is part of series of posts on the Getting Things Done (”GTD”) productivity system that Larry is writing for top legal blogs this week. In our GTD for lawyers series so far we’ve discussed the basics of GTD, and introduced important concepts. We looked at writing your to-dos as “Next Action” items, and aggressively capturing all “open loops” (incomplete items). Now it’s time to start looking at organizing and prioritizing.
07/16/2009
Successful people make things happen by engaging their world in a way that it will supply them with the experiences and results they seek. David Allen’s book Getting Things Done offers the most coherent and comprehensive strategy available today for personal and professional effectiveness.
07/16/2009
I recently treated myself to a netbook. Partly to save my back, mainly so I could get work done on the go. The netbook runs on XP (which I intend on keeping at the moment so shht) Having been a Mac person for far too long, and having not used windows in a very long time (Uni computers don’t count – they have limited access anyway, which is fair enough) I’ve forgotten that IT services in institutions have the facility to block stuff on your own (Windows) machine when using their wifi.
07/16/2009
WTF? is a daily web show for small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to naturally attract customers and get the FAME and FORTUNE they deserve. I’m sure you’ve heard about the law of attraction. Many people think just because we talk about “The Science Of Attracting Customers” that we mean through the Law Of Attraction… that’s not really what we mean.
07/16/2009
In America, we have two extremes. We have the liberals and the conservatives. We have Democrats and Republicans. We have people who are for same sex marriage, and we have people who are against same sex marriage. So it’s only natural in this extremist society that a new type of Bridezilla emerges out of the woodwork that is to the left of the original. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the DIYzilla.
07/16/2009
I like to be efficient so that i can make time for the most important things – like reading, writing, and thinking. I have compiled a list of links with overviews so that you might be able to make use of some of these resources too. This list isn’t exhaustive and doesn’t even represent all of the sites that I have found helpful but it is a start. The stand-out one stop shop is Jamie Littlefield’s “Self-made Scholar” with her Self-education Resource List which contains a helpful list of links to full-text resources, tools, online learning and education communities, applications, and libraries.
07/16/2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009 It’s hard to believe that this month of July is halfway over! And I’m halfway done with work before three days off (I had to work two days and one of them is done!) Actually, speaking of work, it was a fairly GOOD night. I was all caught up fairly early. No major issues. I was a little nervous because as I was walking into work, a black cat crossed my path . It was the strangest thing! I was walking towards the hospital from the parking lot and I saw a black
07/16/2009
There are lots of excuses people make for not progressing in a language; I’m not smart enough , it’s too hard, I can’t remember any words , etc. But the one I’ll almost always hear is I don’t have any time . Time is a funny thing. It can fly, run out, and be up. It can be spent, killed, and passed. It will tell and it is money. With all of these amazing things time does, people never seem to actually have any of it!! People seem to think that if you get more done in a day, you simply have more “free” time than they do.
07/15/2009
there are moments very recently when the way i feel can only be described as the world hitting me from all sides. (i know that i have been way angsty of late here, mainly because i don’t have time to blog all of the awesome that happens every day (although after friday, i will most definitely be recapping you on my THREE bridal showers…all of which were VERY different, i can assure you). ) people told me that things were going to be crazy.
07/15/2009
Filed under: Business , World wide web , Windows , Macintosh , Linux , Productivity , Web services , Adobe , Commercial , Beta While it seems that task managers are everywhere these days, there’s a good reason for it. Task management is all about working out a process for getting your tasks done, and there are a million different work flows. If you’re not one for a regimented methodology like Getting Things Done, but need to implement a tool that grants a team to collaborate, check out Colabolo .
07/15/2009
there are big things going on these days. people are gettin’ hitched, having babies, and more. my news may not be as life-changing or impressive but it’s still a big deal for me and therefore worthy of sharing.sunday night, embracing a new joy-free life, i had a first.yup, yup, yup–i mowed my lawn!this was HUGE!though there are many things i have loved about my 6 years of living with joy, the fact that mowing the lawn wasn’t a “man job” in her mind was a nice perk.
07/15/2009
Are you one of the people who make TO DO Lists in order to get your things done? If you answered YES, then it is a fair bet that your to do list is getting longer by the day and it seems that there are some things that never get done. I am here to change that by introducing a new concept – A Not To Do List! Make a Not To Do List This is the true secret of getting things done! Instead of making a list of things that you want to get done, sit down every evening and make a list of the things you want to avoid doing the next day.
07/15/2009
OrganiseFollow The “Rule Of Three” When EntertainingBy Azadeh Ensha on July 16, 2009 at 3:30 AM Whether you’re planning an informal get-together or fancy sit-down meal, striking the right balance between too many and too little guests can make or break a party. Here’s a quick rule of thumb to follow.Photo by nickstone333.When it comes to dinner guests, home weblog Apartment Therapy writes that three is the magic number. One guest doesn’t disrupt our routine that much.
07/15/2009
As many of you know, I use RocketMatter as my case management program for my legal practice. Being a solo practitioner who is often moving from place to place, a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution such as RocketMatter greatly enhances my ability to have access to my client data from any location via my iPhone or laptop. With the addition of Tasks into RocketMatter, I am now able to utilize RocketMatter in a more GTD ( Getting Things Done) approach at organization. If you haven’t heard of
07/15/2009
A late arrival to the crowded space of web-based to-do lists, Gmail Tasks has graduated from experimental status and is now available to all users by default. Should you start moving your to-do’s into Gmail Tasks ? Short answer: Not yet. What Gmail Tasks Doesn’t Have You’re all hot and heavy to jump onto the Gmail Tasks wagon because there’s that Tasks link, beckoning all sexy-like from your Gmail sidebar below Contacts. Cool yourself off with this bucket of cold water.
07/15/2009
Are you saving more or less money than you were 10 years ago? According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis the 1st quarter of 2009 indicates that Americans are saving more now than they have in over 10 years. The chart below shows the savings rate (as a percent of disposable income) and the fluctuations we have seen in the last decade. What is interesting to note is that back in the 80s people were saving more than 10%.
07/15/2009
While it seems that task managers are everywhere these days, there’s a good reason for it. Task management is all about working out a process for getting your tasks done, and there are a million different work flows. If you’re not one for a regimented methodology like Getting Things Done, but need to implement a tool that allows a team to collaborate, check out Colabolo. (more…)
07/15/2009
by Jason Kamen Relaxation is an important and strived for state for most humans. After a long day of working, it is necessary for people to unwind with some kind of relaxing activity. Each individual has their own idea of a relaxing set of activities, but most people agree on what is relaxing and what is not. There are many complex ways to relax, but an easy method of relaxation involves just thinking. If you are in a comfortable position and setting, taking a long time to think about your situation and life in general can be quietly stimulating.
07/14/2009
Ever wished that you had better services that allows people and businesses easily buy or sell their goods and services via eBay? The web 2.0 has made things easier by providing easy to use services for the most popular web 2.0 online shopping and auctioning website – eBay. Here are ten such services that lets buyers and sellers to connect with eBay auctions and make their shopping and selling experience easy. 1.
07/14/2009
For the past year, I have been implementing the GTD system using Google Calendar and Toodledo (for tasks), while using Appigo’s Todo on my Touch/iPhone. I liked these tools because of their simplicity and compatibility with GTD methods, and because the web-based apps did not require a particular operating system. The only thing required to use them is a browser, whether that is IE7 on my Windows Vista laptop, Firefox/Safari on my iMac, or Firefox on my Ubuntu laptop.
07/14/2009
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07/14/2009
It’s been six days since I last wrote and that’s just not good. I use this journal as a means of tracking what has gone on in my life. I often don’t remember what happened yesterday, never mind what happened a week or a month ago. As always, however, it has been busy. Let’s see if I can recall enough to recap.
07/14/2009
Not too much going on my end. I’ll be heading out to Harrison Hot Springs next week for a 1-2 day breakation. I’ll be booking a room today at the Harrison Resort And Spa . At first I didn’t want to go because we just got back from a one week vacation in WestBank/Kelowna. Then I remember a few guys like James Martell (Internet marketer) saying that if you have a vacation coming up and you need to get work done before you leave it forces you to work fast and efficiently.
07/14/2009
If You Don’t Believe There Is A God…I Have The ProofPosted by The Glamorous WAHM on July 14, 2009A couple of months ago, life was really presenting me with some challenges. I didn’t have any answers or quick fixes. I did what I always do, turned to the Lord. When I am upset or need some time, I get in my van and drive the country roads. You just can’t imagine the beauty of the trees, open land, and open sky.One day as as I was leaving to go on one of these drives, I was talking to Jesus,
07/14/2009
Yesterday, serendipity brought me from my research on artificial intelligence to the expression “intellectual technologies”, quoted by Nicholas Carr in a recent article . Nicholas Carr explains that this expression was used by sociologist Daniel Bell to describe the tools we humans have developed to increase our mental abilities: reading, writing, calculation, to name only a few. Behaviorist approaches such as organization methods, communication and group interaction practices are other examples, I think.
07/14/2009
River in Colorado by Jeffrey W. Cox (The next couple of posts are going to be a little out of order as I wrote a couple on my Palm, but won’t be able to get them posted till later. Thanks in advance for your understanding.) I’m sitting by the Fall River in Estes Park, Colorado. I love sitting by the river; I love to watch it flow, smell the fresh air, clear my mind and just relax. Sitting here made me think about the direction I want to take this blog and my thinking in general –
07/14/2009
Can hunters and anglers make a difference for climate change? After all, sportsmen and sportswomen have a long history of solving conservation challenges. Hunters — and I am one — take justifiable pride in their role in purchasing national wildlife refuges, restoring wildlife populations and conserving wetlands and other habitat . And they have a history of getting things done. For instance, when the nationwide wild turkey population dropped to 30,000, hunters got involved and reintroduced them across their historic range.
07/14/2009
TechnoEsq’s co-Founder Finis Price recently wrote a review for Legal Tech Newsletter of RocketMatter , an online Case Management Service for lawyers, entitled “SaaS Case Management for the Small Firm”. Since the time of the writing of the review, RocketMatter has announced the integration of Tasks in a “Getting Things Done” style system into RocketMatter . SaaS Case Management for the Small Firm Case Management software is to lawyers as a point of sale system is to a retailer: it is the most integral part of their business.
07/13/2009
DAH, the surprisingly effective friendship and professional application is now available in BETA version 4.0. There have been several upgrades to DAH in this new version, although everything associated with the DAH application remains, as always, backwards compatible. Check out these exciting new features and improvements!- 75 percent increased capacity for jolliness, with even louder laughter! – 50 percent more eagerness to make new friends!
07/13/2009
Returning families will be able to register by mail this year! The “summer packet” materials and forms will be on the web site by August 3 and will be mailed to you along with your student record on August 14. You will need to stop in at school or mail in your forms before Labor Day. We will mail out your child’s teacher and classroom assignments just prior to the start of school (Sept 9). All new families are requested to register in person and attend New Family Orientation.
07/13/2009
Welcome to Monday darlings! Time to set your sites on getting things done and making life happen until next weekend. What’s on your tray for this week? Tuning up your bike? Writing that big story for your agency? Planning a marvelous dinner party for 8? Me? I’m going to figure out how to keep a fiance with a broken leg entertained for 5 weeks. I will be coming up with 5 weekends worth of broken bone friendly dates, all involving a lot of sitting still, flat land, taxi cabs, and of course at least a moderate amount of good times.
07/13/2009
Today’s collection of our (my and my family’s) links from around the Web: hanna shared A cat project (plus bonus) – desiretoinspire.net hania shared 4 links. Turn Your Blog Into a Newsletter With RSS to PDF Schmidt: Chrome OS Netbooks As Early As this Year Penguin Pete’s Blog – Point-For-Point With Keir Thomas About Google Chrome OS (via feedly) Netstat: Quick and useful Linux network information hanna shared How flowers
07/13/2009
You may remember reading some months back about the Autofocus task management system created by Mark Forster. Since February I’ve been using this system exclusively, and have found it exceptionally good at managing both business and personal tasks. Mark has made some slight updates to the system based on feedback received on the Autofocus community forum. This new system, Autofocus2 or AF2, is even better than the original Autofocus and is highly recommended.
07/13/2009
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07/13/2009
You can now enter games for the 2010 Independent Games Festival competition . The main competition (i.e., non-student) deadline is November 1st , just as last year. One of the best tactics I found for getting things done with Macguffin Games was to sign up for hard deadlines and then tell everyone about them. “Ruinous Bets” is the term my friend Patrick and I use for them. In essence, you can’t let yourself fail because it would be too amazingly embarassing. In words that Mr.
07/13/2009
Here at The Constant Complainer, in addition to my posts, readers can submit Guest Posts on topics they’d like to complain about. Jen, from “ When Pigs Fly ” submitted the below-Guest Post. This is a great topic. I hate going to the gym to exercise for many of the reasons she mentions. So, if you like to work out, but sometimes wonder about your local meat-market-gym, you’ll enjoy this post. Without further adieu, here’s Jen… I finally made it back to the gym after a week’s hiatus. Life got in the way; that would be my eternal excuse I like to use for not getting things done.
07/13/2009
The manager interview centers around 5 main areas of competence. These are the qualities or competencies that a successful manager displays, regardless of age, gender, industry or organization. Prepare for management interview questions that explore these competencies. Provides Clear Direction A good manager establishes and defines specific objectives and desired results. These are clearly communicated to staff and responsibility and resources appropriately delegated to achieve these outcomes.
07/13/2009
How many times have you said, “I should (fill in blank), but I just don’t have the time”? If a lack of time is keeping you from doing things critical to your success, something has to change. So, where can you “find” time you didn’t seem to have? Eliminate unnecessary work. If you are doing stuff that doesn’t need to be done, stop. Maybe it’s something you’ve “always” done. That doesn’t mean you should continue. Get expert help. You could write that sales letter yourself.
07/12/2009
Tasks lists can be super helpful for creative firms or creative departments (e.g. art departments, interactive agencies, internal marketing or communications) to get more done, manage processes better and to get better information on their work (including tracking billable hours). They can also kill well meaning attempts at implementing project management. People usually get tripped up by making task lists overly detailed, trying to map every single step in a process.
07/12/2009
This is a guest post from Bill Provenzano who is a 20?year veteran commodity trader of the CME. He is also the founder of Upside Breakout , a biblically based coaching and mentoring program for Christian stock and commodity traders. Find out more at ChristianTradingCoach.com . Trading Traps I couldn’t help but think today about the devastation that the housing crisis has brought upon our economy. As I gave it more thought, I realized that a Trading Trap that many traders fall into was one of the issues at the core of the housing bubble.
07/12/2009
“Structure is now the big fetish for Tai Chi and other internal training. But that’s taking the finger for the moon because any structure is tension, while the whole point of the training is to shed tension and relax. It’s true that in the early stages, a few straight-forward postural basics are used to prime the pump and set the stage. But those structural basics are a form of (controlled) tension, so even that is playing with fire.
07/12/2009
An excellent example of how to be proactive when you drop the ball is an incident in which an Enterprise Rent-A-Car, located in Massachusetts, didn’t have a customer’s reservation or vehicle available. Their customer service representative could have been skeptical that the reservation was never made by the customer; but instead apologized profusely and called nearby branches until they found the vehicle this customer needed. The service recovery mission didn’t stop there.
07/12/2009
Collectors, yes, collectors. That is what we all are when we start out with Getting Things Done (GTD) or any other productivity method. We collect everything around us and put it on our task, project or someday/maybe list. And this is not a bad thing, but it is just the beginning. Unfortunately many of us just stop at this stage.
07/12/2009
Author : Melanie Benson Strick What do Donald Trump, Oprah, Richard Branson and I have in common? Well I may not quite be at the billionaire level yet but what we do all have in common is we are all entrepreneurs who get things done in record time Consider this: Over 80% of the entrepreneurs I mentor have great ideas with less than stellar results Many struggle to get to the six figure mark simply due to a perceived lack of time, resources or energy to get the right strategies in place to grow their results So what is it that the billionaires know about getting things done fast that you might be missing?
07/12/2009
Tools for Getting Things Done A series of tools that help automate the process of Getting Things Done tags : gtd , productivity , tool Say Hello To Version Three Of My Weekly Planner A template that helps to distribute tasks over the week tags : productivity , planning , timeboxing Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.
07/12/2009
Is a work at home business better than a work at home job? You bet. Hands down. But each option has pros and cons, and it may be that for right now you’re just not ready to start a work at home business. Its a big committment. That’s OK. But if you’re dedicated, smart and willing to work harder than most, settling for a work at home job could be selling yourself short.
2 Best Reasons To Start a Work At Home Business
1) Business owners build equity in their business.
2 Best Reasons To Start a Work At Home Business
1) Business owners build equity in their business.
07/12/2009
(Written by Theresa Tan, Director of WMD and former Senior Editor of Vanilla Magazine) The Molly Lee Appeal was one of those things that was “meant to be”. I’ll be honest — after 5 years of Women Make A Difference (WMD), I was ready to take a break. Not that WMD had been doing a lot but the admin totally felled me. I was sick of counting T-shirts, making deliveries (so much that I owed one poor supporter a pink T-shirt for TWO YEARS), keeping accounts (more like losing them).
07/12/2009
Lying gits.When something says “ceilidh”, which is, y’know, a Gaelic word, it kind of gives the impression to foolish consumers of Saturday evening social entertainment that it’s going to have something to do with Irish music, or at least Scottish.No such luck: the dancing on offer was generic rustic/country/barn dancing, about as Irish as Boutros-Boutros Ghali.[not Irish, yesterday.]That’s not to say I had a bad evening – in fact it was a very good one, with Paula, her friends C, N & T, and