You Need Things to do Things

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:19:59 +0000

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No matter what it is you need to do, you need to keep track of what you’re doing. Everyone has a different system. My Inbox is usually my task list. I know what I have to do, because it’s right there in my Inbox. It may not be a perfect system, but it works for me. I go through my Inbox several times a day, whittling down my list until I end up with only a small number of items left. I may go to bed at night with ten or so things left in there, but I’m usually waiting to give them a proper answer to a question.

Tracking your tasks can be as time consuming as completing them is. What do you use to keep track of yourself? I’ve tried many different programs, but I think I may have finally found the perfect answer – outside of my Inbox. Things is available right now for OS X. I haven’t found a Windows equivalent yet, so if you have – let me know about it!

A magical tag bar automatically appears when needed and adapts to the currently displayed list. It lets you drill down through even the longest list of to-dos. Whether it’s multiple tags, dates, or notes, to-do items display their information on an as needed basis. No more space wasted by empty or irrelevant column cells.

This is being heralded as “THE” task-management system. You can use iCal, but it’s just not as efficient. If you’re looking for desktop task-tracking on your Mac, you definitely have to use Things. It’s just the ultimate program. If there’s enough interest, I may be able to get them to give us a coupon! Be sure to leave a comment on this post letting me know of your interest.

There’s no end to the things you can do with Things: Things helps you organize life and work according to your responsibilities. You can track progress of your coworkers and teammates. Avoid project overload by setting less pressing ones to inactive. Every list can easily be filtered and sorted by due date. Include notes and links to files, web sites or email messages.

You can see how much this can help you get things done. It helps you stay more organized without having to think about where to put things!

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