Toodledo.com a great way to manage your to do lists
I lead a busy life and have a lot of interests. With that I always have a number of tasks or to do’s and more than I can get accomplished in one day. So I needed a way to prioritize/rank and manage my tasks! I’m also a big fan of cloud computing and I don’t want to use locally installed applications and try to sync them everywhere!
So a few months ago I found ToodleDo.com where you can create and manage your to do list and it’s free! (There is a paid advanced version for sharing with a group and creating sub-tasks under tasks! Whew)
My first reason for choosing Toodledo was the fact my to do list was in the “cloud” which meant I could access it from anywhere, anytime. I can login from my laptop, PC or Mac. I can access/edit my to do list with my iTouch or Blackberry and no software installed locally!
So my first requirement was met and I dove in and started using the service. I was amazed at the complexity and details available for each individual task. I think I’m a pretty extensive user of the service and I don’t even use all the features they offer!
First I just did a brain dump and typed in all the items I had to get done, dug out my journal and found more.
Now I had around 100 tasks so I naturally started ranking my to do’s by priority and/or due date to get the most important tasks done first every day.
Even that was a daunting list to look at each day so next I put each task into folders. I asked myself, is this task for work, home, family, volunteer work and the list goes on and on. I wear a number of different hats in life so I schedule so much time every day to “wear each hat” and get what I can accomplished each day. I created a number of folders BUT I was careful not to go too crazy. I created a folder for each hat I wear and I generally have 4-7 folders with tasks in each folder.
This is all the further I’ve gone but I’ve found myself to be much more efficient and getting more done every day! During each day I think about which hat I’m wearing: If I’m working I look at the “Work” folder and those tasks are sorted by importance and due date. As my day goes on my hat may change to “Family” and then I go to that folder. I also have folders for “Technology”, “Photography” etc..
Now if that’s not enough for you to manage your tasks you can assign a “context” to each task, tags/keywords, start dates and more!
As I said I think I use the service pretty extensively and I don’t use tags or context!
If you find yourself forgetting to do things, have to many to do’s, want to find a better way to manage tasks give http://Toodledo.com a try it’s free!
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