JC - Technology and Stuff

No that’s not some kind of English saying, it’s the name of a piece of software. Task Management software to be exact. At toodledo.com you can find a competent piece of online software that will manage all your tasks and reminders GTD fashion (that’s Getting Things Done for all you newbies). It’s simple to set up and easy to use and before you know it you’ll have everything up and running and checking off tasks. Now if that was the end of the story I guess it wouldn’t be too exciting but the reason why I wanted to use toodledo was because of two other things:

• Firefox add-on
• Twitter add-on

I wanted the Firefox add-on so that I didn’t have to go to their website every time I wanted to create a new task. After all, that defeats the object a little. The Firefox add-on will let you input a new task via a drop down menu of the Tools bar. But that’s not all. You can also open toodledo in the Firefox sidebar (like History or Bookmarks) via the View menu. This is by far the most useful feature. This means that whenever you have a browser open - which let’s face it is all the time nowadays - you are in a position to input a new task (or edit or complete an existing one) with some simple mouse actions.

But, and here’s the killer part of the application, you can also access your toodledo task list via twitter. Remember twitter from last time? That piece of software that I am using to send myself notes? Well it turns out that toodledo has an account with twitter and so I can send a message to toodledo via twitter and toodledo will process that message for me and create a task (or give me a list of tasks and lots of other features). Now that means I don’t even have to be in front of my PC to create a task or get a list. I can do things directly from my phone! How neat is that? So, when I’m sitting in the bar solving the world’s problems and I suddenly get a great idea, I can send that idea via SMS to twitter and it will appear on my task list so I can process it when I’m next on my PC (or in another bar!).

I knew there was something inherently clever in modern technology! That’s it for today. Go and try it. You never know, you might even like it.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 9:32 pm and is filed under PC Tool, Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.