For historic reasons, and because between the two of them I have a unique set of features I can't find elsewhere, I use Toodledo online and Appigo's Todo.app on my iPhone (they sync). The combination is a bit of a kludge, but by now they are burned into my brain. It would take real improvements for me to switch, and I haven't seen them [1]. For example, Appigo's online task app is missing Toodledo's essential mailto feature.
Despite years of use however, I've not done much with Contexts in either Toodledo or Todo [2]. I understand the theory, but in practice it's been too much bother -- until today.
Today I realized what I needed was an easy way to tag small tasks that I can easily knock off when I have a free minute or less -- and I realized a single letter context was a convenient way to do that. So I deleted all the unused Contexts I'd created, and added a new one called 'q' (for quick!). Now, when I'm bored, I filter on q and knock off a bunch of little tasks.
[1] I could build such a great task app if I had another life or two ...
[2] Todo syncs contexts with toodledo.
2 comments:
Couldn't you have completed such quick tasks in the time you need to add them to your to-do app?
The 2-minute rule works pretty good for me …
Yeah, I'm a big 2 min guy. These are future tasks, so I can't do them at time of data entry -- typically recurring tasks...
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