Try gubb.net. You can drag-and-drop your lists around, and also color-code them. I find it very intuitive and easy.

Thanks for the post. I looked at both sites – I found myself partial to RemembertheMilk. My only wish is that there was a better way to mark events, but I am getting it to do what I need.

http://lifehacker.com/5057885/desktask-puts-outlook-events-and-tasks-on-your-desktop

Lifehacker has also reviewed tools like samurize which embeds text files on your desktop. I haven’t heard of anything that ties into tadalist, though I’d hope someone’s worked out how to do active desktop better.

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I used to use tadalist but I just couldn’t keep it organized. I tried multiple lists, but it just seemed like I had 100 items I was stalling on and it was hard to find the “actionable” items.

Currently I’m trying to get gcal going. I love that it can remind me of things (and on my cell), except when my life doesn’t coincide with my schedule. So I try to resched or snooze the reminder, until I’m annoyed. Then I don’t get the task done. For instance, I was at Home Depot when my “do laundry” reminder went off, I snoozed it a few times, eventually dismissed it, got home, and didn’t do the laundry.

So far post-its and notebooks have been best for me, but they’re not so good at interrupting my blog reading to get that time sensitive task done.

I frankly despise the whole “task sharing” virtual features. In my organization I’ve found that it cuts communication to a minimum, and never replaces a conversation with your collegue or employee… Which is why I’ll never leave an online task to my spouse.

I supplement this with Jott (www.jott.com) – Trent, you should really take a look at this. You could theoretically do everything you do in TaDaList in Jott instead, with the added bonus that you could add to it with a phone call from anywhere. So if I think of something but I’m not near my computer, I call Jott and leave myself a message. The next time I’m at my computer, I transfer my Jott-ed tasks to GCal.

Works for me. YMMV.

I’d love if there was one that I could add to the google toolbar or an add-on to the web browser so it’s always available with one click.

It’s like anytime I have been given any sort of planner, planning software, list makers, I start it, but then I lose interest rather quickly.

How do you maintain the interest if you are not a list type?

Quite often I have more that 20 and then it is little uncomfortable because I can’t group them in any way or even sort them. Changing order after adding new item to list is also a little annoying. How do you handle these?

It’s a great add-on for Gmail and has many more features than tadalist.

Another valuable software is evernote. If I have a random idea I just jot it down on evernote and sync it. I can access my list from my home and work compters and via my phone. It’s a pretty great way to keep track.

http://www.goingCarless.com

I don’t know of any tools that do things like that. I just use a checklist – the more crossed-off items, the closer I am.

The one feature I notice is lacking in both apps is a way to tie smaller tasks into larger goals, or in this artilce what you call “initiatives”. I’d like a way to set a larger goal, and then break the goal up into tasks. As each task is completed, it accounts for it counts that toward the larger goal and at any given time I can see how close I am to acheiving that goal…all in one app. Does anyone know of anything that can do that?