Wunderlist is one I've tried several times, and just doesn't work for me.
Todoist is great for me, because (with a paid thing) I can save Gmail messages or websites (I think the website is now a free feature) as a todo with a couple of clicks, and find them again quickly later.
(The Gmail part was huge at the previous job, less so at the current one where Outlook is the thing, but still handy for personal stuff. I have a fair number of tasks that are 'do something with/about this email in two months' sorts of things.)
Re: tabs - I use Instapaper to save stuff I want to read later. My problem comes in when I have multiple things in progress at once (for example, I have several things I want to read in close succession, but I don't want to remember which I wanted to open when I'm done with the earlier ones)
Like, for example, I'm looking at different archives and their policies this afternoon, and it's nice to have several different ones up at once, and something to take notes in. Or I might have our archives website and then a couple of the Internet Archive hosted digitized collections, with searches. Things. Tabs! We are no longer in the internet of the early 2000s!
(Um. I might have unresolved feelings about tabs. Apparently.)
When I am doing Alternity indexing, I am prone to having a window or two of 20+ tabs, mind you, but that's rather a special case. (On my home machine, it is occasionally a little cranky, but nothing like work, which tops out at about 10-12)
Anyway. For other documentation, the more I poke at it, the more I think I need something (some kind of text document) that has current projects and a few reminders to myself about where I am with that, and then day by day stuff that isn't calendar items or explicit todos, but 'made more progress on Y, emailed Z about it, waiting to hear back'.
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Date: 2015-05-29 04:54 pm (UTC)Todoist is great for me, because (with a paid thing) I can save Gmail messages or websites (I think the website is now a free feature) as a todo with a couple of clicks, and find them again quickly later.
(The Gmail part was huge at the previous job, less so at the current one where Outlook is the thing, but still handy for personal stuff. I have a fair number of tasks that are 'do something with/about this email in two months' sorts of things.)
Re: tabs - I use Instapaper to save stuff I want to read later. My problem comes in when I have multiple things in progress at once (for example, I have several things I want to read in close succession, but I don't want to remember which I wanted to open when I'm done with the earlier ones)
Like, for example, I'm looking at different archives and their policies this afternoon, and it's nice to have several different ones up at once, and something to take notes in. Or I might have our archives website and then a couple of the Internet Archive hosted digitized collections, with searches. Things. Tabs! We are no longer in the internet of the early 2000s!
(Um. I might have unresolved feelings about tabs. Apparently.)
When I am doing Alternity indexing, I am prone to having a window or two of 20+ tabs, mind you, but that's rather a special case. (On my home machine, it is occasionally a little cranky, but nothing like work, which tops out at about 10-12)
Anyway. For other documentation, the more I poke at it, the more I think I need something (some kind of text document) that has current projects and a few reminders to myself about where I am with that, and then day by day stuff that isn't calendar items or explicit todos, but 'made more progress on Y, emailed Z about it, waiting to hear back'.