Comments on: Toodledo: My quest for a web-based and iPhone friendly GTD organizer is over

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:11:24 +0000

Thanks Wesley

I´ll wait until this happen… tooodledo app to work offline will be a great improvement… at least i´m not alone in this!!!!!

By: Citizento

Citizento — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:35:20 +0000

@CanyonR Thanks for the good news!

By: CanyonR

CanyonR — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:18:08 +0000

Toodledo says that they are working on support for Google Gears. That would allow offline access to your tasks.

http://www.toodledo.com/forums/6/974/0/offline-access-via-google-gears-.html

By: Citizento

Citizento — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:03:35 +0000

@Wesley Fryer
With a SSB you don’t have your data stored locally, Toodledo is still missing a desktop app to keep in sync with..

By: Wesley Fryer

Wesley Fryer — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:31:24 +0000

Alejandro:

I don’t think ToodleDo has an actual desktop app, but you can create a desktop webapp for it using Prism or Fluid. I posted on this Jan 1st in “Webapps as desktop apps with Prism and Fluid (site specific browsers – SSBs).”

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:34:41 +0000

Excellent post.

I´m moving from iGTD (thats is a powerful and free desktop app) to toodledo because i work all day outside and need my tasks in the iphone. But toodledo is a web based apliccation and on the go is quite dificult find a internet connection for work with my laptop. ¿do you know is toodledo has a desktop application or if a third part soft can be sync with toodledo?

Thanks in advance…
Muchas gracias..

Sorry about my english…

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:45:24 +0000

Excellent post. Thank you so much for the detail. I’ve been trying to decide which app to pick up for organizing my life. Your insight gives me a little clarity.

Kudos.

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By: Wesley Fryer

Wesley Fryer — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:11:44 +0000

Charlene: When you simultaneously press the iPhone's home button at the bottom of the screen and the power button on the top, it takes a screenshot of whatever is on the screen at the time and saves that into your iPhone photo gallery. Then you can share that photo like any other from the iPhone. With these I downloaded them to iPhoto on my laptop and then uploaded them to Flickr. It's a handy trick and works for anything you have showing on your iPhone. I am still looking for a good way to show my iPhone screen "live" during presentations and workshops, however. Haven't found that solution yet.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:33:15 +0000

Hi Wes, I don’t have any recommendations, but I do have a question… how do you get your iPhone screen shots? I know you have Skitch for the annotating, but how are you emulating “your” iPhone? Thanks for sharing. Good luck in your quest for organizing in 2009.

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By: CanyonR

CanyonR — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:11:37 +0000

I have been using Toodledo for several months and love it. I was mostly using it at a base level for a task list. I had fallen off the GTD wagon and was barely getting by. I have decided to “Reboot” my GTD process for the new year and have been investigating some of the advanced features of Toodledo, in addition to rereading the GTD book. I have been amazed at the level of thought they have put into these features, spending a lot of time around how someone might actually use them.

For example, the iCal export for Google calendar lets the tasks with a “due date” show up integrated into the other calendar items instead of a dropdown menu. If you then start using the due date modifiers it changes how they show up on the calendar (ie = makes a “all day” item) http://www.toodledo.com/info/help.php?sel=42

I use Mozilla prism Firefox extension (or fluid.app on the Mac) to make a Toodledo desktop application that works great. That way I can do my task management without opening a “browser” for those time when that would be a distraction. http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/prism/

I’m sure you will enjoy using Toodledo and I hope to see you on the forums. http://www.toodledo.com/forums/index.php

By: Robert Talbert

Robert Talbert — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:36:33 +0000

I use OmniFocus (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/). I’ve had it on my laptop since it was in its alpha testing phase and it’s really the only task management system that works for the amount of tasks and projects I have to work with. I’m a college professor, and during the school year I will typically have 3-4 dozen projects and over 100 next actions at any given point in time. I tried out RTM, Things, Yojimbo, and other productivity apps, and they are all nice in their own way and would be good choices for people with a fairly limited amount of tasks and projects to manage. But none of them worked as intuitively as OmniFocus for the large amounts of stuff that I have on my plate.

I use the OmniFocus app for the iPhone (actually iPod touch) as well and it’s nice — not as quick as the main app on my laptop but otherwise very workable, nice interface, and easy to use.

The big knock on OmniFocus, it seems, is people find it somewhat restrictive, and you can’t apply tags to things as you can with Things and other task managers. It’s much more of an “orthodox” GTD system and you pretty much have to follow the pure doctrine of David Allen when using it. But I find this more of a plus than a minus; I have so much stuff to manage that tagging is just an unnecessary complication rather than a convenience.

Both the main app and the iPhone app are a little pricey, but they are well worth the money, and the main app has some nice hidden discounts if you do a little searching around Omni Group’s website. (There’s an educational discount as well as a discount for OmniOutliner users.)

By: James Deaton

James Deaton — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:49:31 +0000

Hope it continues to work for you! I pulled the trigger at full price for the iPhone app and have no regrets. Before Jott changed their structure, I used it often to feed items into Toodledo. Now, you might give Dial2Do (www.dial2do.com) a shot. In my tests, it’s a great way to verbally add items as well as have the list read to you (although my lists are way too long to want to hear it). Beats typing when you’re driving down the road and an idea comes to you. Must follow GTD, get it out of your head.

Oh, there is also a great Ruby command line app for Toodledo. http://rubyforge.org/projects/toodledo

I’m often in a terminal window and it’s very nice to be able to add tasks without changing my context (of course you can set the GTD-esque “context” through the ruby client). You can also utilize the command within applescripts and Quicksilver to really facilitate task management. It’s too easy to get caught up in the process of managing the tasks and not the completion of tasks.