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37 Signals, To Do Lists — Printable To Do Lists To Get Organized
February 27th, 2007 | Posted in Web 2.0, Web Design |
37 Signals’ to-do lists, which offer printable to-do lists online to help you get organized, or to simply make lists, is one of the most useful tools I’ve used lately. Although I didn’t write favorably about 37 Signal’s Campfire chat product, I really recommend their to-do lists. Mainly, all their products are cool, but the to-do lists have a special place in my heart because they are totally free.
I use these to-do lists when I’m online (75% of my day) and I think of something I need to do. For example, if I think, oh, that’d be a cool blog post, or heck, I need to do X for the Suncoast chapter, or shoot, I need to run this errand, I click a quicklink to my to-do list (which for some dumb reason is named ta-da list), and within about 3 seconds I can jot down my thought. It’s really a functional list system.
Here’s an example of a list I started today:
You can make the lists private or public. You can also share your lists with specific people. Your list can also have an RSS feed.
I even made a bunch of lists for the Suncoast chapter, which I hoped members would maintain, but it didn’t really take off. Having two distinct logins doesn’t quite work.
One of the strengths of 37 Signals is their philosophy about simplicity. I was listening to a podcast by a 37 Signals developer Jason Freid, and he said they maintain the idea that simple applications are actually more flexible. They serve a wider range of purposes and appeal to a broader audience. Plus what’s easy to use, gets used.
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March 1st, 2007 at 3:20 am
You might say this is the grocery list electrified. Why have slips of paper floating around your desk, backpack, house, pockets, and so on when you can have them all in one place? The concept is brilliant. I have gone with ta-da’s slighter bigger sibling, however: http://www.backpackit.com/
There is a free backpackit, and it just seems a wee bit more advanced.
I think I commented on this on a previous post, but am too lazy to double-check just now.
I think the name ta-da comes from the triumphant cry when you complete your tasks.
March 1st, 2007 at 8:29 am
The triumphant cry? I can see how that might fit. Thanks for clearing it up.
I remember your previous comment about backpackit. I explored it a little, but I didn’t really need any other feature but the lists. I may revisit it, though.
March 12th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I think 37 Signals stuff is so overrated. They aren’t even consistent between apps, despite being every UI designer’s darling. I do like Backpackit and Ta-da to a degree though, and use them with some regularity. Sadly, there isn’t much competition and even if there was, bloggers and the like are so stuck on odd-numbered Web 2.0 apps that there’s no hope in finding them.
What irks me is that Ta-Da doesn’t have inline editing like their other apps do. It makes no sense.
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