A lot of these have been covered in other blogs and magazine articles. Here’s my take on a few.
- http://www.tadalist.com/: One of the biggest missing items from the iPhone is a task list. I use OmniGroup’s OmniFocus interface quite a bit, but I don’t like leaving my power-hungry G5 on all the time at home just for this. Tadalist.com is a great alternative for quick task lists (or any list). It is accessible with any web browser and has a great iPhone interface. You can share the lists as well to enable people to edit, add, and complete items. It’s a great way to share, say, a shopping list with your spouse. It’s light and simple, and I have been using this.
- http://backpackit.com/: Another site by 37signals, this one covers notes, calendaring ($5/month subscription required), “writeboards”, reminders, and, yes, lists. Backpack is obviously a little more robust than Tada List. One especially nice feature is the ability to email and SMS reminders and calendar events to your phone. (In case this sounds familiar, it’s because 37 Signals also does the commercial-grade Basecamp). While the feature set is great, I just have not gotten around to using this. Part of it might just be my personal resistance to
- http://calendar.google.com/: Yes, you can track notes and tasks in Google Calendar. Google updated gCal last month to direct iPhone users to a site designed using the standard iPhone Web app UI. Mix that with Spanning Sync, and you’re set. I would use this a lot more, but - grumble, grumble - our Exchange server here at work is…. subpar.
- OmniFocus: As mentioned above, OmniFocus has a great UI for Web access. This is where I track most of my projects. I’d like to see the ability to sync the projects using .Mac or similar service, rather than me having to rsync the files. The other issue is that with the power consumption of a G5. Maybe this is where a hacked TV would come in handy.
