Managing To-Do Lists

From ml2sig

• dave carter, User:superman, superman@
• britton woodman
• mike creech, grad library
• nicole
• edward vielmetti
• molly kleinman, library admin
• south asia collectin
• pfa@ emerging technologies
• kate saylor, outreach
• drew burton, ams
• julie weatherbee, tech support
• ken varnum,
• sevi
• meillssa copyright
• language resource cnete
• sue whatmon, social work
• kat hagedorn, dig lib
• aaron, scholarly pub
• suzanne, evernote
• scholarly publishing. copresenter

what do people use

wins and fails, getting things done, task management.

• google notebook; not currently supported
• evernote
• google docs
• "things", mac only and iphone; $$$.

URLs mentioned

• http://profhacker.com - productivity in higher education
• http://culturedcode.com/things/ - Things software
• http://www.profhacker.com/2010/01/14/putting-the-things-in-gtd-managing-an-academic-life-with-cultured-codes-things/

using Things

Things can be used to do the Getting Things Done style of personal task management, which is based on managing lists, creating contexts, tasks, categories.

• Things: difference between projects and areas; focus area, "some day"
• keyboard shortcut command-spacebar from anywhere to create new tasks.
• projects: all kinds of activity for a specific date, that is checked off and done when it's done
• areas: long lived categories where there are things to do inside a set of focus, undated
• logbook: things that are done but you keep track of them, vs. trash for things done and gone

Sync: between Things and Things for iPhone; only works on wifi or plugged in, or sync with DropBox. Profhacker post