Spaced-OoooO-Out ::

Way back in 2008 I blogged about Getting Things Done…. David Allen’s productivity system for busy people. Well, since I wrote that Palm have virtually disappeared off the face of the planet having sunk all their money in to developing the rather excellent Palm Pre running webOS which was subsequently binned, open sourced and licensed to LG!

Anyway, that orphaned my get-go app (NoteStudio) on my dying Palm TX which was subsequently replaced by my Orange San Fran. My eventual solution to this was to run StyleTap on my Moto X but the interface now feels clunky and old - in fact because I had continued to use NoteStudio on my PC, I needed to sync the data to the StyleTap virtual machine. The HotSync connector for Palm Desktop doesn’t allow a “virtual” sync to then manually transfer the files to StyleTap…. so my brother gave me his old (dust gathered) Palm TX, I then synced my data to his device, copied that files off on to the SD card and thence in to StyleTap. This worked great, although I couldn’t then use the desktop NoteStudio.

To cut to the chase, I therefore wanted an Android app that supported the GTD methodology, supported data syncing and ideally had a web interface. Enter the slightly daft named ToodleDo which appears to do all that and more. There is a native Android app which is intuitive to use and main task-based panel which allows you (all importantly) to generate sub-tasks and so track progress to outcomes. You can tag tasks within folders to see their context. In addition it supports the taking of notes and hierachical outlines which are both useful additions.

This supports my task outlining and tracking, however for rapidly writing “To Do” lists ready for creating tasks, nothing beats Google Keep (I know, I try to be Google agnostic!) which very graphically and easily allows you to create lasts, add images, dictate etc, all synced to a web interface as well. A great way to keep track of ideas as you generate them.