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eTodo

| $0.99 | bitAlpha

Appigo ToDo | The Productive Organizer - The Productive Organizer

Firstly thank you Charles for being kind enough to extend a beta copy of Action Lists for me to do this review. So far i have the chance to investigate 2 Task Management Software: For sure, these are not the only lists around and the fact that the competition is so hot means there is only one winner here, which is you the consumer! Action Lists is brought to you by Daze End Software, you may have come across another of its software which is ListMaker and this one is working on the same formula as List Maker.In fact you can say that action Lists is building on the same formula as List Maker. Action Lists, like most task management applications on iPhone enables you to follow the GTD Workflow by David Allen but for me, it can be much more than that. There is a free version for you to try that is FREE. However, it only enables you to create a limited number of tasks and projects. The paid application cost USD9.99, which is the same cost as Appigo Todo and Things. When you cost that much, you gotta be as competitive as them. Here we will see if it measures up. Action Lists does task management according to the GTD workflow, but you have the flexibility to do it in alot of ways. Typically you start off by doing a sweep to collect any thing that you can think of. Any thoughts that translates to actionable tasks will go into the Inbox. Task entry is similar to Appigo ToDo in that you can use a Quick Add button to add a task without detail specifications. But most would prefer to use the detail entry screen. Here you can enter the whatever a good todo list have, Action Lists Read More

Todo

| $4.99 | Appigo

GTD Series Part 3:Appigo ToDo on iPhone Review | The Productive Organizer - The Productive Organizer

This is part of a series where i talk about my GTD experience and  my setup. In today’s article i will share with  you guys the software to complete the iPod Touch picture which is Appigo ToDo list Before i got my iPod Touch, I have already decide which application to do list i would be using. This is after extensive research and comparison between Omnifocus,Things and other cheaper to do list. Eventually these are the reasons that tilt me towards Appigo ToDo One main difference about to do lists like these compared to outlook is that they are like mini project management applications. Most of our lives consist of small projects like That’s what i normally require. Its either an Area of Responsibility or a Project to meet that area of responsibility. Appigo ToDo allows you to have 2 levels of it. You can have Lists as your big project and Projects in your Lists as your sub projects. Lists showing my Areas of Responsibilities The Lists are very clear. The first one is a list showing All your tasks in all your lists. The red tag shows the overdue ones and the gray tag shows the total. You can color tag each lists so that in your task it becomes easily distinguishable if you are the sort of visual person. Sub-Projects in your Project List In your lists, you can denote one more level down which is your sub project. Very ideal for specifying mini projects. These sub projects are distinguishable by the tree icon. One thing to note is that in these task view, you will only see the name of the sub project and not the tasks in your project. Some people will get annoyed by this and I can understand the technical limitation of it but Read More

MobileNoter

| FREE | Businessware Technologies Inc

Note Taking Software that Syncs with OneNote for iPhone:MobileNoter | The Productive Organizer - The Productive Organizer

Are you looking for a software that enables you to access Microsoft OneNote on your iPhone? If you are then, MobileNoter is probably what you are looking for. I think alot of folks out there really like to use Microsoft OneNote for note taking. For folks that want to keep research materials, or information pertaining to a project or a business object that they are working on, OneNote is the closes software you get to a real note book. I personally think its one of the best products release by Microsoft and it should be bought as a stand alone application. Best thing next to a physical note book If you currently already have much information stored in OneNote and would like to access them from your iPhone or iPod Touch, MobileNoter can do the job. This is a subscription based service. The desktop and iphone application is FREE. But monthly subscription comes up to USD 1.25 per month. 1.0 MobileNoter is bascially a service that, for a small fee per month, allows you to sync selected notes to MobileNoter Server and enables 2 way sync with your iPhone Mobile Noter Software. How to setup and how MobileNoter looks like after the break You will first need to register an account with MobileNoter.com first. This is a subscription based service and it will cost you roughly USD 1.25 per month (which really is less than the cost of one meal per day) Once you have your Username and Password. You can then download the windows sync client. This sync client will sync your one note with the Mobile Noter server. Downloading more stuff The installation of this sync client is quite fast, but do note that you require .Net Framework 3.5 SP1. The Sync Client:Enter Username and PW The client is Read More

CalenGoo (sync with Google Calendar™)

| $6.99 | Dominique Andr Gunia

The best calender software for iPhone:CalenGoo (sync with Google Calendar™) Review | The Productive Organizer - The Productive Organizer

I gotta give a shout out to Dominique from CalenGoo for facilitating this review. I would say out of all the intriguing software on the app store CalenGoo interest me the most. I am big on planning and scheduling in a Getting Things Done kind of way and i make use of Google Calendar as my main calendar so it is natural that i would make it a criteria in choosing my GTD device. In this review i would break down why this would rock more than the native Google Calendar sync and where it will not be that good in. A good reason other than Appigo ToDo that sways me to the iPod Touch 2G was due to its ability to sync google calendars and contacts via exchange protocol from Google  to my iPod Touch.This means that you can assess to your events and schedule offline, you don’t need  a constant internet connection. What this means also is that you make your google calendar your base where you house your events and schedule. If you are using an iPhone your calendar synchronize with it. If you are using an Android phone your Android phone calendar gets synchronize with it. When you get home or in the office and want a better view of your calendar, you can view the same events and schedule from your desktop internet browser. Remember those windows mobile days where you need to put your windows mobile phone into a cradle and sync your contacts and calendars to your desktop through ActiveSync? Well in web 2.0 you don’t have to rely on that any more. Offline mode for iPhone,Android and Adobe Air for desktop allows you to assess your calendars when you do not have an internet connection and automatically or manually synchronize your events and Read More