Getting Things Done: Great To-Do List App

Black­ber­ry and Palm devices always did a great job includ­ing a good and easy to use task man­ag­er appli­ca­tion. On the old PALM, you actu­al­ly had a but­ton for ​“To-Do’s” right on the front of your device. Mak­ing list were easy and check­ing them off was even more fun! Now that the tech­nol­o­gy age is so much more advanced since the ear­ly Palm Pilot mod­els of the late 1990s, we think we need bet­ter pro­grams to man­age our crazy sched­ules. Books have been writ­ten about how to man­age your time more effi­cient­ly, includ­ing the pop­u­lar ​“Get­ting Things Done” book by David Allen. The iPhone, being the lat­est and great­est mobile device on the mar­ket does not come with a stan­dard task man­ag­er pro­gram. Apple left that par­tic­u­lar App to the App cre­ators! If you do a search for a good ​“to do” list for you iPhone, it will be hard find­ing one that is easy to use and even reminds you when things are do. I’m still in the test­ing stages of find­ing a qual­i­ty task man­age­ment App for my iPhone, but so far, I like the App called ​“Things.” This App cost $9.99 from the Apps Store on your device. How­ev­er, if you are famil­iar with the Get­ting Things Done method or have your own cre­ative way to orga­nize your list, Things is prob­a­bly a great lit­tle pro­gram for you to try. I know it is $9.99 but if it real­ly does help you orga­nize your busy sched­ule bet­ter, I’m sure it is worth it. Things allows you to quick­ly jot down thoughts and to-dos. It then saves them into a fold­er called ​“Inbox.” The next step, when you have the time, is to go into your Inbox and cat­e­go­rize and pri­or­i­ties your recent to-do items. Things then will orga­nize your items into sep­a­rate fold­ers such as: Today, Next, Sched­uled and Some­day. All items can also be tagged. I use the ​“tag” func­tion as the cat­e­gories for the com­pa­nies I am work­ing for on an ongo­ing basis. Two final ​“cool” fea­tures are the Projects sec­tion and the abil­i­ty to email your items to your­self or some­one else. The projects area gives you the capa­bil­i­ty of nam­ing projects and the items that need to be done to accom­plish the over­all goal. To learn more, vis­it Things and watch their short video on how it can save you time and money!