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This To-Do List Manager is Top-Notch and Free
If you're the sort of person who buys self-help books aimed at busy people, you've almost certainly heard of David Allen. He's the inventor of a concept called GTD, or Getting Things Done. It's not so much a way of managing your to-do list, but more a way of life.
Wieldy is a free to-do list manager, which its author claims is modelled on the GTD concept. It runs under Windows XP and above, and provides a friendly, intuitive way to manage and prioritise all your tasks and thoughts, and keep track of contacts. It uses a Ribbon-like interface, and I actually think it looks a lot like Microsoft Outlook.
It's a tiny download, at 0.8 MB, and doesn't even need installing. Just unzip, then double-click the Wieldy.Client file. If you don't like it, just delete the folder and you're done. You can get it from www.wieldy.de (the author's German but the software and web site are in English).
Handily, the program stores all its data (ie, all your thoughts, contacts and tasks) in an XML file rather than any proprietary database format. So getting information into, or out of, the program is relatively simple.
Just make sure that you don't end up spending so long managing your tasks and thoughts that you don't actually have time to do any real actions or thinking!
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It is surprising for what you would think is a standard requirement for almost anyone how little there is in such software that is any good.
I have tried many of these, none did what I liked. It is nice to know alternatives but at present I will reluctantly stick to the one in gmail mainly because I can use it over many computers.
Compared to the interface, the icons suck, it's like win98 all over again.
what about Free EPIM? what do you think compared with this one?
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It's a tiny download, at 0.8 MB, and doesn't even need installing.
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I think you should also mention that the portable version also needs bulky ".NET Framework 3.5". Moreover not every computer has .NET Framework so portable version is worthless.
I have been using ClickTray Calender by WASEO for years. It is small and very good tool as a calender and reminder. Only downside is that it may not work Windows Vista or Windows 7.
BTW I had given a link to WASEO site and while in preview I got a message saying;
"Your submission has triggered the spam filter and will not be accepted."
After removing the link I was able to get preview without errors.
Here is the link :
http://www.waseo.de/index.php?cid=4&act=mn&mn=46&pg=0&lg=1
Thanks for suggestion.
Installation of Wieldy requires a modification of the Register to point to the location of .Net Framework... Can anyone provide assistance to accomplish this step..? I've tried to 'edit' the registry using 'regedit', but I'm not sure exactly HOW to do this...
...Jester
Unfortunatly, it is not as simple as "Just unzip, then double-click the Wieldy.Client file" since it requires .NET crapware 2.0. I wish people would go back to programming in grown up languages.
I'm like anonimouse. if something isn't written in a grown-up language like cobol and printable on green-bar paper, it isn't for me. Hey anonimouse, know where I can find a good monitor with green text that doesn't have "Lotus 123" burned in to the upper left? I've been searching for over 20 years.
I suspect it is a false positive, but when downloading today, the Windows version (non-portable) threw up a red flag in Norton Internet Security. Downloading the portable version did not.
I think we can assume it's a false positive. I received no such report here, using Sophos antivirus, and I've seen no other reports.
I downloaded and installed it 2 days ago and have had it running each day, using N.I.S. with no problems. Haven't checked for updates though.
Hello All,
I've spend many hours looking at different choices for managing to-do lists and also using the to-do list software as a resource for implementing Getting Things Done (GTD).
I believe it is important to consider our wired and wireless lives and looked for a solution which would sync with my work computer, home computer, netbook and wireless device. My original solution was using TaskCoach which was supposed to support syncml, but I could not get it to sync properly. I then decided to explore Rememberthemilk.com (RTM). While looking at their website, I discovered that the basic RTM service is free to use. You can buy a professional subscription which would allow you to sync your tasks using apps for android, iphone, windows mobile and blackberry.
I found a blog post with an advanced user's implementation of GTD, which can be found here:
http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2008/05/guest-post-advanced-gtd-with-rem...
Since I'm a Blackberry user I decided to buy a Pro ($25/year) account to sync it with my Blackberry's task manager and to support the project. It wasn't necessary to buy a subscription as I could use their mobile website with my Blackberry's Web browser as part of the free version.
So my two cents is that in today's wired and wireless environment a good Task Manager (ToDo) software should have any syncing/Web component
DrBones
(edited: Fixed capitalization error and added the price for the pro account at RTM)
How about a version or a program for the Mac?
I've read his books. I got my head around the concepts but like anything life changing, a little difficult to get going. Maybe this will help.
Thanks
Ribbon. No thank you.
Your loss.
I think this looks interesting and thank you.
Nice find, thx.
I'll have to give this one a try. I've been using Abstractspoon's version for years. (it's included in the "Best Free Time-keeping Utility list on this site)
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