My Lists Problem

August 23rd, 2009 by Charles Ma Leave a reply »

I like lists. Lists are simple one dimensional structures. They can be ordered, or chaotic. I make lots of them, and you probably do too.

I have a list of things to do, a list of books I want to read, a list of websites in my bookmarks, a list of good ideas, a list of quotes from various famous people, and many more.

The problem is that they’re not all in one place. Some of those lists live only on my mind because it’s too inconvenient to write them down especially when chances are I’m going to lose them anyway.

I want a better way to manage my lists. Google Tasks is great for managing my todo lists, and any lists that where items are frequently added and removed, because it’s convenient to do so. But it’s messy. Each list needs it’s own category, but no sub categories, no tags, no way to order those categories. If you have lots of lists, Google Tasks just doesn’t scale to meet your needs.

I want lists to be available where ever I go, I want to be able to share my lists with other people, I want my lists to be searchable, tag-able, and scalable.

Do other people have list problems? Maybe I should try and solve it.


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4 comments

  1. Varun says:

    Hey Charles,

    You might want to check out RememberTheMilk:
    http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/guide/

    It has tags and a bunch of other features ;)

    • cma says:

      Thanks Varun, I’ve used remember the milk before, back when they first started. It was pretty useful, but didn’t have everything I wanted. Looks like they’ve added quite lot of features since then though. :D

  2. Jess says:

    i know this is a bit belated, but i was looking for something similar… and found http://ordable.com . it’s a bi bulky in some ways, but I rather like it