evernote - Steele Lawman

Rememberthemilk.com - love the mulitplatform, ways you can share lists, add priorities/duedates. - Kathryn is Blake in Hindi

Big evernote fan here. - Derrick

Tomboy notes [no comment] - copystar

ActionMethod - Jenica

Evernote users: how do you mark priorities and/or deadlines? That's where the Evernote approach is falling down for me. - RepoRat

I don't. If I did, I guess I'd use tags? - Steele Lawman

I mean, the way I do things isn't very good. So you may not want to follow my advice. :) - Steele Lawman

I use Evernote, but it won't track deadlines and things for you, so if that's what you need it won't be your best bet. The way I use it is I have one folder for task notes, and then I have a note for "home" and one for "work" and a couple for major projects that needed their own space. Then I just keep updating those notes and rearranging the things in those lists. (I tried more robust systems but couldn't make myself stick with them, so this was better than nothing and works well for me when I need it to.) - lris

ActionMethod is pretty slick! But it's also spendy. Decisions, decisions. - RepoRat

I decided my organizational problems were severe enough to warrant paying. :) (the ipad app is pretty slick.) - Jenica

I was just at a conference session about this and the speakers went with Trello. (http://trello.com). but one of them liked Toodledo (http://toodledo.com) better and is still using it for personal stuff. rundown/matrix at http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi... - though it was a lot more fun in person:) - Marianne

(Our man adr swears by todo.txt ) - Marianne

Yeah, Jenica, I can totally see why ActionMethod ($99/yr) is worth paying for! I'm just trying to figure out the delta over RTM ($25/yr) and other possibilities. My org problems are getting into the red zone. I suspect the major difference between me and you is fewer group projects and less delegation; I'm a lone wolf except for RDS. - RepoRat

Wow, Marianne, thanks! That link is AWESOME. - RepoRat

(I did todo.txt for a long time, by itself and in Evernote. Problem I'm having now is that the whole list is overwhelming, so I tend to limit recording in it to TO DO RIGHT THE HELL NOW stuff, which means I lose track of longer-term and backburner stuff, which is bad. Also, todo.txt is not great for repeating tasks, which class planning gives me a lot of.) - RepoRat

I use a mix of things, mostly in Outlook. Email messages with action items are flagged with a due date, either the date I plan to work on it, or the date I need to follow up on it. Things that don't arrive in email format are put into Tasks with the same due date methodology. Where this fails is in ongoing projects with multiple due dates, which could all be put in as separate tasks, but then you lose the structure of seeing which item goes with what project. Right now, I'm using a single task with no due date and in the body of it I'm listing (and then crossing off) each action item. This is okay for now, since most of this stuff is long-term stuff and doesn't need daily attention. I like the organization of ActionMethod, but since most of this is personal project management, I'm not sure I need something that robust yet. - Royce's favorite Anna

I use Outlook similar to Anna, but I also use Gcal for tracking long term stuff, like course work. I put specific assignment details into the due date and I am always in gcal, so I see stuff at least a month out. - ~Courtney F from Android

Toodledo.com. Usually via a gadget on my iGoogle page. Also their mobile site on my phone. - JffKrlsn from Android

someone at work uses rememberthemilk.com - henry

I would like to start hellwiththemilkrememberthebourbon.com - Steele Lawman

I rememeber being fascinated by the "search all notes for checkboxes" function of Evernote, but never quite got the system down. My girlfriend and I have been experimenting with many of the apps listed above and Wunderlist, Workflowy, Google Tasks, and at work I use ACT! (contact management software). I still do not know what is best...I like Workflowy, but haven't been able to export or copy and paste the lists into anything else. You can share parts of list with others, so thats a bonus. - Eric Sizemore

google tasks. Just couldnt get into more complicated systems - aarontay

I have a half-assed half-digital half-analog "system". - Deborah Fitchett

I also have a half-digital half-analog system. Mine is a whiteboard with immediate/near deadlines and notes, plus Outlook calendar and notes on every project in Evernote. It seems to work for me, though. - kaijsa

I'm using NirvanaHQ (https://app.nirvanahq.com/) which I like for the balance of project vs. task, scheduled items, and the ability to rearrange tasks within a group (which is my holy grail of productivity software. I like RTM, but not being able to do that frustrates me there.) - Jennifer Arnott

I don't have one tool/system but use OneNote, Sticky Notes or TomBoyNotes, and a heavily color-coded/categorized and flag system in Outlook. I used to use Outlook tasks for reminders, but, the list got too overwhelming; so, now, I tend to take projects/tasks and break them into "appointments" that I put right on my calendar. In the appointment, I list exactly what I want to get done in that give hour. This helps keep me focus and not get too overwhelmed, plus it helps avoid my days being filled up with meetings scheduled by others. - Galadriel C.

What Galadriel describes is exactly how I used Outlook until I switched to the Mail client instead (no color-coding). Everything else still works, and blocking out time on the calendar is ace for forcing myself to make progress toward deadlines. - kaijsa

This thread may have given me the kick in the pants I need to get my own act together re: to do and reading lists. Here's hoping! - Amandadon't from Android