Choosing Your Smart Phone

Things has great-looking apps for iPhone and iPad, and it supports a good desktop sync (WiFi only). However, no cloud sync is available as of 12 April 2011. Look for it after July 2011. See their cloud sync article and follow-up posts. The new cloud sync will require...

Choosing Your Smart Phone

The iPhone, iPad, and iTouch do not have suitable built-in task lists. Fortunately, there are hundreds of thousands of third-party apps available; some of them are very good. See Priacta’s list of TRO-capable apps at stg.priacta.com/gtd#tro , but be sure to look...

Creating Tasks from Email

Drag and drop the email onto the Tasks icon at the bottom of the navigation bar on the left. A new task opens up with all the information for the email. Tip: Make Email Replies Easier In Outlook, you can’t reply from a task directly, even if you created it from...

Configuring Task Reminders

To enable optional task reminders on your handheld: Open the Toodledo app. Tap the Settings icon at the bottom. Tap Alarms. Select: Task alarms come from this device. Select an appropriate sound. (Beep Beep or Sonar are more professional sounding.) Tap Setting at...

Task Reminders

Never for Scheduling Tasks! Never use task reminders to schedule tasks at specific times. Instead, schedule those tasks in your calendar with all other appointments, so you can plan and manage your schedule in a single view. Optional task alerts are supported on your...