Never Forget the Dairy

Today I was looking for some way to organize all of the things I have to get done at work. I usually use Google Calendar for organizing my life, but work poses some problems that Google Calendar can't solve. For example, I often have about 90 ongoing projects to work on, none of which have a set due date. Also, some projects are more important than others and gCal has no way of dealing with that. I do not intend to abandon gCal, but I need something to compliment it. I considered downloading some to-do software or potentially using Outlook's built in features. But I have an additional problem. I alternate between three computers at work, sometimes more. So I will only be able to access my list one third of the time. Obviously that won't work.

I did, however find this fantastic web app called Remember The Milk It is a list-making application it it basically does everything I ever wanted in terms of making a list. Here is a screenshot of the list of things I could remember I had to get done in the near future at work:



Basically, you make a list (in my case, the list I am using is "Work"). You add tasks to the list (with the very obvious "add task" button). Then, you can muddle about with the options, setting higher or lower priority, a due date, how long you think it will take, and whatever else you might want. There's an option there for it.

The best part though, is the ability to tag tasks. It should be stated that I love organizing via tags, and so here I am very happy. It works just the way you might expect it to, and is ever so convenient. The only downside I have found is that you can't make "smart lists" that are automatically generated from a given tag.

I intend to use this app, and I would like other people I know to do so as well. This site ALSO has some social networking features (like the ability to share tasks) so it would be great for collaboratively planning something.