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Doit.im Mini: Group Time-Defined Tasks By Projects & Sync Them [Mac]

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Doit.im Mini is a free Mac app for managing your tasks. It allows you to group tasks by projects and runs unobtrusively in the Menu Bar. The app’s interface is just one of the main reasons to give it a try, so elegant and simple it is. To use the app, you have to sign up for a free account. Doit.im Mini can be accessed easily via the built-in keyboard shortcuts that you can modify to suit your usage. Additionally, the app allows you to quickly add tasks via the ‘Smart Add’ feature, which has shortcuts and syntax support for quickly recording the time and deadline for a project or a task. The syntax is simple and allows you to append time and date to a task in addition to adding a new project. Read More

Exiland Backup: Schedule Separate Tasks For Creating Encrypted Copies Of Your Files

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With the ever increasing evolution in technology, we have almost come to the point where we have completely started relying on our computers to store all our information. However, nothing can be worse than losing this information by accident. It can cause severe adverse effects, leading to the likes of even losing your job. So, to avoid any headaches, its better to backup your files from time to time. Exiland Backup is a free utility that lets you create backup tasks to store your important files to a safe location, such as local storage, network drives, FTP servers or other removable media. You can create as many tasks as you want, and schedule them to run automatically at selected times. You can also password protect your files to keep them safe from others. Read on for more details. Read More

ToDoPlus: Manage Project Tasks By Organizing Them In A Task-Tree

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The best way to complete any given task effectively, is to do it the right way and in a well organized manner. Unorganized tasks simply take more time than they really should, as you don't have the things properly planned right from the beginning. To help you ease this job, we have an application for you called ToDoPlus. It is a task management application that can help you out during working on different projects by allowing you to use its task-tree feature, for organizing small tasks under one hood. The utility offers a smart way of organizing your projects to save yourself from wasting precious time. Although it has a very simple interface, you will rather be more attractive to its usefulness. The application lets you create sub-tasks to achieve small objectives first before you can focus on dealing with bigger goals. You can also filter out unimportant task, so that you can focus on tasks that hold higher priority. Moreover, it has an option to password protect tasks to restrict unauthorized users from accessing them. Other features include universal task search, auto-resuming of tasks on your next login, and import/export of project files. Read More

Phone Schedule: Schedule Sound Profiles, WiFi, BT & More On Android

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Phone Schedule is a simple, yet extremely effective Android app that lets you create scheduled tasks regarding various actions that you wish could be performed on your device automatically. For instance, using the app’s predefined list of actions, you can opt to create scheduled tasks pertaining to, well, almost anything, such as sound and alert profiles, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplane mode, device volumes (ringtone, alarm, notification, media) and plenty more. Can’t stick with the same ringtone for an eternity? No worries! With this app, you can also create a scheduled task for changing your device’s default ringtone to a selected one after a specific time duration. The same applies to your device’s default notification tone, too. All you need to do is create a new task with personalized scheduled settings, and forget about tinkering with the relevant actions manually. Instead, the app will serve the favor for you by continuously running in the background, and taking care of all the scheduled tasks. Want to temporarily pause a scheduled task without removing it from the list permanently? There is option within the app for that as well. You can select any task that you wish to put on hold for a brief period of time. Once the specified time period expires, the task is restored with the default settings. Read More

Desktop-Reminder: Reminder & Alert Scheduling With Custom Snooze Time

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There are a whole host of task managers and reminder services and software available to help you remember important events and simple everyday tasks like picking up milk. Desktop-Reminder is an application that allows you to add tasks as far advance as you want and set up a reminder for each task as late or as early as you like. The application, gives you audio alerts and can run unobtrusively in the system tray. You can categorize the tasks and filter them based on the category or description. It automatically highlights tasks with the closest due date. Read More

Create To-Do Lists & Set Task Priorities With Forget Me Not For Android

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Looking for an easy-to-use and effective task management app for your Android? Maybe XDA-Developer’s member, Roshnal's Forget Me Not is what you need. Forget Me Not is a task management/ prioritization app for Android that lets you easily create quick to-do lists for multiple tasks, prioritize your tasks accordingly and easily mark them as ‘complete’ when they actually are. Read More

Goalstacker – List Tasks You Can Complete In Available Spare Time

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Typical to-do list managers help you plan important tasks over a span of days, weeks or months; they help you remember what needs to be done and to prioritize tasks. One slight pitfall of prioritizing is that there will always be certain tasks that might never get done because there were always other more important ones. Goalstacker is a to-do list manager and time management tool for those tasks that never get their turn. The web service allows you to add as many tasks as you want; each task is created with a time estimate of how long it will take to complete. When you find you have some spare time on your hands, you tell the service how much time you have to kill and it will list all tasks that you can get done in that time. Read More

Hi Task Is A Task, Project & Event Manager That Generates Reports

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There is no one size fits all solution to project and task management which is why new methods and techniques continue to evolve, and why you will always find a new task and project management service to help get your work on track. Hi Task is a web service that is a task manager at the core but has features that make it a viable project management tool. It lets you create projects, add tasks and generate reports based on time or productivity. Read More

Grafire – Project Management, Time Tracking & Invoicing With 1GB Space

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If you’ve ever fallen in love with a project management tool only to find that the free version doesn’t exactly fulfill all your wild dreams or that upgrading to the paid version just to get that one feature wasn’t as great an idea as you thought then Grafire might interest you. This free web service is…free. Other than just being free, it manages time spent on tasks, multiple projects, clients and lets you create and send out invoices. The interface is extremely easy to use and the service itself is rich in features that could easily satisfy small scale project, client and time management needs. Read More

Lazy Meter Is To-Do List Manager & Productivity Tracker To Stay Focused

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Do you consider yourself profoundly lazy? Or do you often ask yourself at the end of the day ‘What did I do with my time?’ If you’re the former, get your act together, if the later, there is hope for you yet. Lazy Meter is a to-do list manager that helps you realize your productivity. As opposed to a long list of things to do, it organizes tasks as active, paused or not started and does not restrict you to deadlines. It gives you the flexibility to reorder your tasks and change their priority at any time and at the end of the day gives you a productivity graph of which tasks you’ve accomplished. Read More

Track Time You Spend On Active Tasks With AlgTime

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AlgTime is one of the most unique time tracking application which takes a novel approach to track time you spend on different tasks. Unlike previously featured time management and tracking applications, such as, myPomodoro, PAM, StayFocused, Ticks, True Time Tracker, and Timesheet Recorder, it doesn’t require users to first create the task list which they want to perform on given day. According to developer, it is designed to be simple with an absolutely unobtrusive UI to let users focus on tasks and not on compiling complete task list prior to track time. Read More

DelegateLite – Handle Multiple Project Tasks & Assign Them To The Team

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Managing tasks can become a bit difficult when it’s required to not only list them on paper but to assign them to different team members as well. Generally, task managers focus on only individuals rather than teams, and thus, do not provide options to add team members to share tasks and collaborate on different projects. Newly developed DelegateLite is for advance task management. It is a small task manager with simple UI, providing a long list of features to create and assign tasks to different team members. Read More

Organize To-Do Lists With Nirvana, Service For Getting Things Done

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Organizing work and home tasks and actually getting them done on time is not easy; people who manage to do both end up writing self-help books for less organized people who can’t seem to remember where they put the grocery list. There are of course lots of ways that people try and get their day to day tasks on track; setting reminders on their phones, reminders in their emails, sticky notes on the desktop…the list goes on. Nirvana is a GTD (getting things done) web service that could make all this much simpler, it not only lets you set your to-do list but will also forward it to your email, is accessible from your phone and updates you when a task is due. Read More

ididwork – Share Work Logs And Manage Employee Reviews

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For small companies or teams working remotely, tracking tasks and feedback can be a real challenge. For people remotely managing multiple teams, reviewing tasks and performance can pile up over time and the bigger or more complex the team, the harder it is to manage the tasks. ididwork is a web service that simplifies work logging for employees and makes it easier for managers and peers to provide feedback on tasks. Read More

Toggl Turns Your Time Into Money By Tracking Total Time Spent On Tasks

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Tracking time that you are spending manually can become as hard as the project work itself. Therefore, many users tend to pick up an un-obtrusive time management application which offers minimal controls for tracking time spent on project tasks, but what if you’re working in a team to achieve the required tasks allocated by your project supervisor or client? How would you track down total time that has been spent by all the team members? Problem can get bigger if your team members are working remotely and using different OS platforms. To tackle problem of tracking time in heterogeneous environment, you need one ubiquitous tool which caters to all OS platforms and portable devices, such as, Toggl. In a nutshell, it is a web based timesheet killer which works on all three major OS platforms - Windows, Mac, and Linux, while offering timer apps for both iPhone and Android phones. You can keep a check on all project tasks which are completed, on schedule, in progress, and about to finish, by tracking the time that is being spent on them using Toggl's web interface. Read More

Remember Is Distraction Free Todo List Manager For Mac

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One thing you must consider before choosing a task management software is that organizing tasks or creating a list of to dos through chosen tool should never become a task itself. Remember is one such tool which was developed keeping simplicity in mind. It is a small distraction-free to do list manager which requires nothing more than listing down the tasks to manage them. It comes utterly useful in situations when you’re working on a project in which tasks are to be performed in a some defined order. Being a non-obtrusive tool, you can keep it at your fingertips over menubar to quickly enter new tasks or mark existing ones as completed. Read More

taskpaper+ Brings “TaskPaper For Mac” To Windows With Portable Webserver

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taskpaper+ is an intuitive browser-based task and to-do list manager which is primarily inspired from widely used HogBay’s TaskPaper – to-do manager for Mac/iPhone. The application developer puts all the features which users like in TaskPaper in addition with a long list of tasks management related options to let users streamline tasks and schedules in best possible way. In comparison with TaskPaper, the most noticeable difference is that it comes with portable local webserver letting user manage to-do list in famous browsers - Google Chrome and Firefox. The application is developed keeping GTD principle in mind, enabling users to search, categorize, and filter tasks in a simple way. As far as the webserver is concerned, no manual setup is required, settings are bundled in a batch file which you need to run prior to listing down your tasks and schedules. Read More

Task List Guru Is Complete Desktop To-Do List Software

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In the past, we have covered a great number of task management applications, such as, TaskCoach, App For The Milk (a desktop application for famous Remember The Milk), PhiTodo, and Doit.im. Since almost every application claims to be distinctive and more productive than other, it seems that there is no limit on number of features which can be incorporated into a task management software. As we have seen a staggering number of task/to-do list managers, picking out one that perfectly matches with user needs is rather difficult. Today we have stumbled across another to-do list manager called Task List Guru. Beyond the obvious features of a to-do list manager, it encompasses one complete mechanism for project management, catering to priority customizations, independent note taking, task reminder with a buzz, and hierarchical task list with a huge list of different icons to visually differentiate all the listed tasks. Read More

Student DOG Organizer Is A Perfect Organizer For Students [Back To School]

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Student DOG Organizer is an application to help students heading back to schools and is developed by David Capka, a recently graduated student to help other students. According to the developer, the idea is to help students keep different school-related activates in order. Since the ‘Back To School’ session has already started, most students will find this all-in-one organizer immensely helpful since it helps in organizing school-specific tasks, such as, marking calendars for specific activities, keeping track of lessons and classes, adding contacts, writing notes, and much more. Read More