When you want more out of your To Do List manager
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For some activities, it is hard to find a tool that will do the job and have all the features you need. This is not the case with To Do List managers. There are many good options for offline and online To Do list management.
My preference is to use one that automatically synchronizes items with my mobile device. This way I can view and organize my list while commuting to work on the train and prepare for my day.
Corporate email systems do a good job of To Do List management and synchronization with mobile devices. For Gmail users, there are label tricks and add-on scripts to use Gmail as a To Do List manager and Gmail can be accessed from your desktop as well as your mobile device.
But what if you need more out of your To Do List manager? What if you need something that is more robust but not as complex as Microsoft Project or other project management software? Fortunately, good options are available and free.
ToDoList is a Windows desktop application that gives you full control over your task management. You have all the basic options associated with a To Do item plus plain or rich text notes, item dependencies, linking items, resource assignment, time tracking, cost tracking, file attachments, custom fields such as Status and Version, multiple import and export options, view filtering, reporting and more….
Sounds complex? It really isn’t thanks to the wonderful user interface that uses multiple panes to display each To Do item’s properties. Everything is right there on the screen without the need to dig into menus and buttons to find the properties you need to set.
People who use Excel or other spreadsheets to maintain project plans are better served using ToDoList. ToDoList is easier to update and manage and it is easy to create reports or export projects to a variety of formats including text, CSV, HTML and more to share with others.
As a bonus, if you miss having a Text Outliner, I remember, quite fondly, years of using Ecco Pro as a Thought Manager / Mind Mapping software, ToDoList can do the trick:
- Create a New Tasklist
- Click View / Select Columns… and uncheck everything. (Make sure to click Affects active tasklist only)
- Click View / Maximize Tasklists
ToDoList is a portable freeware application. You can take it and your lists on a USB drive.
