It does a lot, if not all, of the functions available on Outlook's task manager. It would be nice if it interfaced with Outlook so I could carry my task list with me on my phone.

aeronaut

I still say Remember The Milk is better..

chareverie

@chareverie: The problem I have with RTM, this, and pretty much every other task list tool is the ability to nest sub-tasks. For me, splitting tasks into sub-tasks (and sub-tasks into sub-sub-tasks, ect) is an integral part of understanding a project and tackling it.

Does anyone know of a tool that lets you create an unlimited hierarchy of sub-tasks?

SamburgerHandwich

@SamburgerHandwich: I do wish RTM had that functionality, too. Just, what makes it useful for me is that it's a web-based application. I use different computers everyday (my personal desktop and laptop, the computers at work and school, etc.) that it helps.

What I do to kind of make subtasks is just on my naming convention. For important ones "[task] subtask" and normal ones as "task: subtask". :)

Oh, and I don't actually use the RTM website... I just have it as an add-on on my iGoogle home.

chareverie

@SamburgerHamdwich take a look at vitalist [www.vitalist.com] It is more complex than RTM in that it handles subtasks and supports GTD methodology.

redace

@redace: This looked really powerful, but I was only able to add 2 levels of subtasks. Better, but still not there.

@chareverie: That's a novel approach, and I do something similar with the basic to-do widget on google desktop, but I shuffle things around so much that this simply isn't practical.

Is there really nothing out there with infinite levels of sub-tasks? Help me lifehackers, you're my only hope!

SamburgerHandwich

@chareverie: FruitfulTime TaskManager can be installed on a USB pen drive, so you can always have your tasks with you. No need for synchronization or internet access. You only need a handy USB pen drive.

This functionality is available in both the free version and version 2 of FruitfulTime TaskManager.

In FruitfulTime TaskManager 2 you can choose to password protect your to-do list which is then encrypted.

As co-founder of FruitfulTime I always love to hear what you think about our products. Send us your comments and feature requests on our support email. Now is the right time to consider enhancements for the next version :)

Minimalist Geek

@Minimalist Geek: The best improvement would be to make it work in Ubuntu or on the iPhone. No Windows for me anymore.

lwdallas

@Jim@SirSmiley: you're my heros! This is seriously impressive. I'm disappointed that there is no web interface, but since this uses XML, it might not be difficult to create a web service.

SamburgerHandwich

Oops! I need to refresh before posting.
I'm with Jim on ToDoList plus Judge (SysStats) has some transforms for converting ToDoList's to Freemind maps.

SirSmiley

@SamburgerHandwich: Check Out ToDoList by AbstractSpoon. [www.abstractspoon.com]

SirSmiley

I'm hooked on ToDoList ([www.codeproject.com]) Very customizable, free and actively developed. Windows only but reported to work under Wine on Linux.

Jim

Enleiten FTW!

William Mize

@SamburgerHandwich: I use TKOutline for that, and I keep going back to it because of that. I suppose you can do that in Onenote or evernote, but I've tried and it felt clumsy. The problem with tkoutline is that it's simply an outline tool. You can export, but you can't tag items, it has no understanding of the concept of contexts, there's no due date, start date, priority, etc.
It is open source so maybe I'll jump into the code and see if I can make the best of both worlds. I'd love to see a tudumo/tkoutline/fusion desktop hybrid.
An outliner with good GTD metadata for the leaf nodes like fusion desktop and instant filtering views like tudumo.
But I'm with you, the way I think, I need an outliner. I'll have something like "send email about hiking trip" and that's a single task, right? But then to do that I need to get a list of all the people going. Now it's a project. In an outliner I just add a node. In a GTD app I have to back it out. create a project, then create a task for getting the list. But now when I'm done I can't mark that project done, because tasks have done/inprogess/ data, projects don't. But I'm not selling a house. It's a simple thing. I want it on a to do list scale, I just want lots of detailed steps that I can easily see what the very next action is.

azpat

@lwdallas: I Totally agree...I tried installing this in ubuntu via wine, but this application needs the .net framework 2.0, which doesn't install well in 8.04...yet. If only you could make a linux version or at least something that is wine-compatable...this program actually looks really good and I want to look into it...

saicrazyfire

SamburgerHandwich, klok which is an AdobeAir program will solve your problem.klok.mcgraphix.com

fransfa

OMG! I was reading the notes over at tkoutline and saw that some people were talking about some app called ECCO. I found it on wikipedia and there's a link to a forum with a link to a download. This thing is incredible! Wow! Way ahead of it's time. The money feature is a tree-view with columns. This way you can outline stuff, and give those items meta-data such as status, due date, etc. check it out. [en.wikipedia.org]

azpat

@azpat: sorry for the double post. I had refreshed several times, but it didn't show until I reposted. I'll check out ToDoList. It looks promising.

azpat

@SamburgerHandwich: I use tkOutline for unlimited hierarchies.

[tkoutline.sourceforge.net]

azpat

Another hearty vote for ToDoList by Dan over at [www.abstractspoon.com] He's an extremely responsive developer and while I use RTM for my personal lists, I always use TDL for breaking down my projects into manageable tasks.

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