Comments on: 40 Best Personal Organization Tools To Boost Your Productivity

By: Family Data Productivity

Family Data Productivity — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:31:08 +0000

ooops sorry I am new to this and forgot to add the site –

http://www.AboutOne.com

Take a look.

By: Family Data Management

Family Data Management — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:27:10 +0000

There is a new personal/family data management solution coming in march 2010 called AboutOne.

Its secure, easy to use and designed for Moms to get organized with their own and their family data, from birth, health, education to family calendars and alerts. FYI I was surprised when I saved $46 last week using their intelligent coupons and right now the system is free for the early customer program.

You can take the survey on the homepage and win an iPod Touch, and you can also volunteer to be an early customer, use the system for free and give your feedback on how it can be improved.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:28:13 +0000

The best todo list I have ever had was one from back in the Commodore 64 days. You could list todos and the program then presented them in pairs. As I recall you used the up and down arrow keys to indicate which of the two was higher priority. When it had cycled through all of the todos (including any left over from a prior day,) it produced a prioritized list. Sure I had to apply the important, urgent matrix myself, but I found that most often reacting to the pairs without agonizing gave me the most usable prioritized to do list and it only took seconds. The only change I would have liked would be to be able to use a project with a sub-list of next steps and have the project and next step appear rather than just a discrete to do item. I have looked ever since for a program like this but haven’t been able to find one. I’ve even suggested it as an enhancement to the law specific practice management software I use. If anyone knows of such a program, please let me know.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:30:21 +0000

http://www.gtdagenda.com

You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version and iCal are available too.

Hope you like it.

By: Andrew Benton

Andrew Benton — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:04:18 +0000

Very good article. I’ve found the one bad thing about the desktop sticky note type applications is that I am usually to lazy to get rid of them after they build up. I prefer online apps, much easier since I’m not always in front of the same PC.

By: Argey

Argey — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:41:32 +0000

I looked at David’s GoalEnforcer and was disappointed that the only 3D seemed to be shaded icons. There is a 3D task and information organizer called 3D Topicscape and with that you can see a 3D landscape of your ideas and info, and you can zoom in, fly around and re-center the view around any topic.
There’s even a free student edition ( http://www.topicscape.com/student-edition.php )

Argey

By: David

David — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:38:18 +0000

I love this one for task setting and tracking:
GoalEnforcer (Mac OSX and Windows)
very graphical and pleasant to use (kind of a 3D outliner)

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Create a Blogging Plan by Breaking Down Objectives into Task List — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:44:22 +0000

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By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:17:47 +0000

Michael, the reason why I listed desktop based tools at the top is that my internet connection usually conks out and I have to rely on offline utilities, but that’s just me.

Kate, you are welcome. Jott is lightweight and does exactly what it promises

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:50:48 +0000

It seems I have little use for desktop software anymore and prefer web-based applications, so this is a great list! Here are a couple I'd like to add: Remember the Milk is a great to-do list web app. Wridea is a wonderful brainstorming notes app.