Free Mac OS X to-do apps
Sure there are plenty of ways to organize your work. There’s sticky notes, there’s trying to memorize everything. There’s writing on the sides in notebooks. And there are dashboard sticky notes that can be quite useful. But all of those ways are confusing and not so organized. Sure we do creative work so we’re all a bit artistic and we don’t follow the organized routines. But at some point you’ll notice, especially when you’re doing web designs or any kind of paid designs that keeping tracks of what you have to do is important. So here’s a quick list of applications that are free, work on a Mac and are a good way to organize your things.
iGTD
My favorite out of the bunch is iGDT, unfortunately it has been discontinued since the author works on a similar but paid app for another company now. But it still is available for download if you search the web for it. The best thing about is is how advanced it is. First of all it syncs with iCal and with ToDo lists in your mail app. So you have the info in a couple of places. Second of all you can use a context view of your to-do, or view them by projects. The icon in your dock has a badge with how many things you have left to do (green) and another, red badge for things you have to do for today. Try it out, it’s really worth it, even if there’s not gonna be a new version. You can download it here
Do It!
This is a simple, IM style to-do list app. The simplicity is fine if you’re not doing a lot of things. But if you are it might get a bit confusing. Even though it’s simple it can by synced with iCal and Address book. Also a nice feature – a file can be assigned to each entry, for example an entry called “finish the website layout” would be linked to the PSD file. Simple but it can get the job done in many cases. You can find it here
Checkoff
A simple app running in the background. It places itself on your top bar with all the other icons on the right. This one looks as the name suggests like a checkbox. When you click on it a menu shows up with categories from which submenus can be accessed. You can of course add categories, entries and check the ones already done. Pretty standard and pretty transparent. You can get it here