Task Management Interfaces: Outlines, "Contexts", Tags, and Areas

Posted by Randall Shinn
Jan 24, 2009 at 02:22 PM

Ike Washington wrote:
>Steve
> >I think you give a good description of some of Natara Bonsai’s features.

When I was using a Palm I thought Bonsai was one of the best designed task management programs I had ever seen. I especially liked the option of mixing check boxes and progress bars within the same outline.

Sorry my original post was filled with question marks. I transferred my note from Journler, and it uses smart quotes. Lesson learned.

And one correction to my original post. It seems the area folders in Things are not smart folders. They assign any task you drag to them a tag, but they won’t search for tags and place all those tasks with them in the folder, which I think makes them much less useful.

Zoot was the first software I used with “smart” folders, and the Admiral understood how helpful having the software search for words and placing those items in folders could be. I suppose that one sign of progress in info management software is that this feature is becoming more common.

Randall