Resources for “Taming the TODO”
August 24th, 2005 by Sacha Chua in
Cory Doctorow's notes on Danny O'Brien's talk “Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks”: www.craphound.com/lifehacksetcon04.txt
RT (request tracker): www.bestpractical.com/rt
Using RT to Keep Track of Bugs, Ideas, Users and Your Life in General: www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002/papers/html/rt
Ta-da (Web-based task manager): www.tadalist.com
Backpackit: www.backpackit.com
Introducing the Hipster PDA: www.hipsterpda.com
Planner, a personal information manager: www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerMode
Planner quick start: www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerModeQuckStart
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Another way of handling todos
On September 1st, 2005 Jason Philbrook (not verified) says:
Excellent article and topic. I'm always looking for new ways to experiment with keeping atop my tasks.
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page works well for me. Cross platform was important so I can let windows users update the lists. I use it as a hierarchiel todo manager. Tasks organized by town primarily. someone else might use it tasks sorted by class or customer or however they want.
I put a little crop of mine without any useful information here:
http://www.f64.nu/todo.png
Freemind and mindmapping
On October 29th, 2005 Sacha Chua - (not verified) says:
Yeah, Freemind is cool! I sometimes use it to capture longer notes. =) By the way, someone's gotten Freemind to work with Emacs Planner...
Bad QuickStart URL
On August 29th, 2005 Anonymous (not verified) says:
The URL for QuickStart is misspelled, it should be Quick instead of Quck, like this:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerModeQuickStart
You get a page with a header but no content if you use the bad link.
emacswiki.org connection refused
On September 9th, 2005 andy (not verified) says:
I hope this is a temporary thing, like they took the site down for maintenance. Or perhaps they got lj'd (too popular).
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