Personal Productivity Tips II – Update

Writing this blog can be very helpful. In writing recently about my personal productivity tips, it occurred to me that I was really using too many “to do” processes.

Moving stuff from my GTD Master List to a daily list was a pain and inevitably got out of date. What I needed, of course, was a personal task management system that incorporates all of my needs.

Being involved in several startups, I’ve got a lot riding on my productivity and execution. My to-do list is a critical tool in my productivity toolbox. I needed an upgrade.

Surely there was a relatively inexpensive, complete solution out there for managing daily tasks?

I know how I work and what I need:

• Good hierarchical project organization
• The ability to easily find and display a “daily task list” even though the individual tasks live inside a project hierarchy
• The ability to set deadlines, where relevant
• The ability to create sequential ordering of tasks (rather than just tossing them into folders)
• The ability to export and/or print all projects, sub-projects, tasks by priority, tasks by due date.

Wow. Sounds like a lot, but really, it is just an object or folder tree with a few to-do list functions thrown in. No problem, right? (more…)