I have 3 to-do lists
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I have 3 To Do lists - 1. Highrise To-do’s There has to be an easy way to streamline these. What’s everyone else doing? Cheers, Peter |
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I have more problem and nobody is willing to solve it. I am not sure whois going to offer an integrated solution ? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. I use the Highrise tasks for things I have to get done today or by a certain date in order to keep a promise to someone. For this, I appreciate Highrise’s ability to
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. |
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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 |
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I believe you need more then ONE application to get your to-do’s EASY DONE. 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) 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 If 37s or any other company would combine the functionality of both applications it would become way to complicated. 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…. |
