How Toodledo can make you more efficient
By luguima
Main functions of Toodledo
Toodledo permit a better organization of your time (personal, profissional and recreative). The main functions that will help you to save time and be more efficient are: organization of your tasks, improvement of your productivity, mobility, collaboration, customization, using your existing tasks and compliance with Web 2.0.
Tasks to-do
Organize Your Tasks
The tools that are available to organize your tasks are:
- Folders: With folders you can easily organize your tasks by project or type of content. Folders can be removed, hided or turned in private in case of you pretend to share some of your tasks;
- Subtasks: While folders are in a higger level of Tasks, Subtasks are in a lower level. So you can have 3 levels of hierarchy;
- Due-Dates: In only one pop-up calendar you can define due dates for your todo in a quickly way. You can also set recurrent events;
- Priority: For better organize and sort your tasks. A negative priority can be give for unimportant tasks;
- Tags: In a way to increase your perception abou each task you can define tags. Some examples are: nearly done, postponed, waiting for Mary, etc;
- Contexts: This is very useful to separate different types os tasks. For example if you are working you'll not see tasks about your Poker Club. This help you to keep focus in what are doing in the moment;
- Goals: This is a interessant form to keep you auto-motivated to achieve your life goals. There are 3 kind of goals: life-term, long-term and short-term. You can assign these goals to individual tasks allowing you to keep track of which actions contribute to your goals, and which actions may not be a fruitful use of your time;
- Notes: You can add notes to each task;
- Time Tracking: For me, this is one of most powerful tools of Toodledo. With this tool you can easily track the time spent in the realization of tasks and also estimate future tasks;
Auto-scheduler
Improve your Productivity
Hotlist of Toodledo has the high priority tasks and can remind you through email or sms.
When you feel down and without energy to decide what to do, the Scheduler can sugest you some tasks based in your free time and your favorite folder to work.
Mobility
You can access you Toodledo everywhere through mobile phone (Iphone is a great example), email, in your calendar (Google Calendar for instance), RSS reader, Instant Messenger or any browser. You can even print up a special foldable booklet that will fit in your pocket.
With this you don't have any reason to "forget" your todo's.
Collaborators Permissions
Sharing and Collaboration
If you are one of those who work in team and/or like/have to share your todo's Toodledo has solution for this too. In fact you can have multiple collaborators who assgin tasks to you or just have permission to read the folders you want.
You can manage and control your work and the work of your team.
Import Your Existing Tasks
If you just can't live without a electronic assistant wich have all of your todo's, and you want to change everything for Toodledo, you just have to import from your actual system/ device ( Palm OS PDA, Microsoft Outlook, Apple's iCal or others) to Toodledo.
Conclusions
In conclusion with Toodledo you have a powerful tool that allows you to organize your tasks in a efficient form and permits that all of your to be more productive. This management can be made everywhere and with anybody you want to.
Curious about Toodledo? Try it and give me some feedback here.
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