Topic: I have 3 to-do lists

I believe you need more then ONE application to get your to-do’s EASY DONE.
I believe it is simple how I do it now:

I use Highrise to-do’s for PEOPLE related stuff (NOT PROJECTS).

Such as:

-Get the oven repaired (linked to the company that repairs it – notes of previous phone calls)
-Arranging and claiming my money of a water damage (linked to my insurance company)
-Scheduling a staff meeting for a raise (all previous talks and salaries are in notes)
-Buying a present for a friend

To know more about how I use Highrise and the to-do’s read here

I use Basecamp for PROJECT related things:

-Develop Overview of department mobile phones
-Make sketch of floorplan
-Make monthly invoices (bookkeeper logs in to the project)

If 37s or any other company would combine the functionality of both applications it would become way to complicated.
As Jason stated in Businessweek: Craftspeople who really know their trade, like carpenters or metalworkers, have very specific tools for each job. In fact, they may have five different types of hammers and 15 types of nails. If you really want to do a good job, you need to use very specific tools for the job.

People who try to get everything done in one app is like trying to get a folding bicycle that is easy on public transport but still is great to go mountain biking….... You really believe in this?

If you give up to hunt for one solution and go for two, your live will be already double easy :-)

Just my experience….

Topic: I have 3 to-do lists

i love things on mac… i fully disagree with isaac it’s good to have everything in one place and filter by area of concern

Topic: I have 3 to-do lists

I’ve wrestled with this too, and I think seeking a single solution is a fool’s errand.

There is almost NO time that seeing everything we have to do in one place actually helps us, other than by making us anxious. Theoretically, it sounds nice, but I don’t think there’s a practical application.

Instead, I think keeping tasks somewhat separate allow you to focus on what is important right now.

I’m using Basecamp to-dos for detailed lists of followup tasks with my team, on a complex project, or tracking bug fixes. When you’re working on that project, it’s the only place to be. But Basecamp todos don’t remind you or carry due dates, so they’re really just good for punch lists.

• receive tasks by email (sent from my phone or desktop)
• remind me when they’re due
• tag according to context

I use a variation of Chemnitz’s strategy above, to create a Highrise task like “TODAY: clear Basecamp todos on ABC project” if it really has to be done for a client expectation.

Hope that helps.

Topic: I have 3 to-do lists

Remember the Milk

This pulls everything together – Mac, Blackberry, iPhone (very nice implementation), Google, email to-dos…. so you can enter and marshal task via any of these methods and they’ll all sync together. Fantastic.

Topic: I have 3 to-do lists

This is exactly why I’ve had a love/hate relationship with 37signals products for some time. I love them, but I tend to accumulate to-do lists in Basecamp, Highrise, and Backpack. It’s way too much to properly prioritize what to do when you’ve got three to-do lists. My dream for a long time has been some integrated page where you have all tasks across 37signals products (not unlike the consolidated to-do page in Basecamp).

Because my tasks had become way too scattered, I’ve just about phased out Basecamp, and am doing the same with Backpack. Now that OmniFocus is out for the iPhone, I think that will be a better solution for me; Highrise is the one app that has become indispensable for me. What I have been doing is making repeating tasks in OF that say, “Clear Highrise ‘Today’,” “Clear Highrise ‘This Week’,” etc.

Topic: I have 3 to-do lists

I have more problem and nobody is willing to solve it.
- Basecamp To-Dos
- Highrise To-Dos
- Outlook Tasks etc.
- Bakcpack stuff

I am not sure whois going to offer an integrated solution ?
I think an Integrated CRM would have millions of HAPPY members right away.
Lewis

Topic: Studio Contacts, Personal Contacts, and iPhones

I’ve been watching the forums for several months looking for clues as to how people sync highrise with Apple Address Book and iPhones. I know about the greatascent attempt which appears to have died on the vine.

It seems that with all the people using iPhones on these forums I must be missing something really fundamental.

Here is the challenge of our studio:

Currently, we have a shared apple address book synced via .mac. This address book jumbles together our studio contacts and our personal contacts. Not a big deal when there were only a couple of us but now that we are growing this is not ideal and we have to deal with it. The attractive feature of highrise is the use of permissions to set who can view which contacts.

How do other people handle sharing important contacts with co-workers while not sharing their entire address book?

Can the permissions be used for this? Or is this the wrong approach?

Are people maintaining two systems? I have only one lap-top that I use for both work and personal. Do people set up multiple users (on macs) so that the worlds don’t collide? My work user could then sync with work and my home user would be separate. But then they would both be trying to sync with my iPhone.

I feel certain that with this many smart people using Highrise, this issue has already been solved by someone :)

Topic: Add multiple groups to access

We would like to be able to assign multiple groups access to a certain contact or case. Right now it seems one can only give permission to one group. So we need to add all individuals separately if they encompass more than one group, but not everybody.