Is Toodledo dead?

Posted by Christoph
Apr 2, 2021 at 12:32 PM

Talking about todo managers, here are three more recommendations.

*MyLifeOrganized* (MLO) is a very flexible and powerful application that is essentially based on an outline (arbitrarily deep tree) of tasks. Tasks can be marked as pure containers (folders) or projects. User-definable filtering views allow to create flat lists from this outline. It has as a desktop app for Windows, and mobile apps for iOS and Android. MLO has many interesting and advanced features, like time- and location-based contexts, start and end date, reminder date, and review date (all separate from each other), and can be used to implement different task management methodologies.

*ToDoList* from AbstractSpoon Software is a bit similar, but completely free and open source. Like MLO, it has a desktop app for Windows. Both can also be used on Linux with Wine. I’m particularly mentioning these two, since on this forum there are often only recommendations for MacOs users, and MacOs seems to generally have more and nicer productivity apps. But there are also some options for Windows users.

I’ve also become fond of *Everdo* which is a very clean implementation of the “Getting Things Done” (GTD) methodology. Everdo provides a platform independent (Electron) desktop app and mobile apps. I know some don’t like Electron, but it works very well for me. If you’re into GTD, you will surely like Everdo (note that despite of the name, it has nothing to do with Evernote). In terms of outlining, it is not as powerful as the first two apps, since it can only nest three levels: projects, actual tasks, and inline tasks in the task comment. So, it is not really an outliner as the first two mentioned apps. However, I noticed that forcing me to keep things simple (instead of creating deeply nested trees) can also be helpful. Also, Everdo has a clever tag system that can compensate for the missing task outline. All tasks can be tagged, you can filter for tags, and the type of tags (work area, context, contact) can be freely changed.