What on earth are we to do now?

Published by Samantha Sunne on 09/01/2015

A lifelong dream of mine, nurtured since I was but just a wee j-student, is to find a to-do list app that really works. My most recent fling was TeuxDeux, which worked amazingly smoothly, but still didn’t convince me to sign on for a few dollars a month.

TeuxDeux, with each list according to a day of the week. (Image courtesy of swissmiss)

Now I’m trying Trello, which I like because it organizes tasks in a nice vertical/horizontal way. Here’s my board, with each freelance project as a list (the first one’s blurred so y’all can’t scoop me):

Trello, with each list according to a project.

I like this design because this is how I visualize my tasks in my head – so many projects, so many to-do’s. And Trello does far more than what I’m using it for: you can add dates, images, labels and even other people to your items.

In an earlier email, Dan recommended Wunderlist and Now Do This, so I’ll give those a try.

But do chime in, on email or Twitter: what to-do app do you use?

Correction: In last week’s email, I said the free plan on Pop Up Archive lets you transcribe an hour of audio a month. That was wrong: it’s actually a trial service that only offers one free hour, period. TFR regrets the error and hopes you haven’t used up your hour already.