I have a fancy notetaking calendar scheduling app thing on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8S (aNote HD), and have tried using it to keep track of stuff, but I don’t use my Note 8S as much as I could, and I don’t carry it with me much either, making it an extra thing to remember to bring with if I want my to-dos and such. So, I chose to play around with Springpad for the fifth Thing, and put it on my phone, so I might have a nice simple to-do list/task manager with me most of the time.
I used it just for a to-do list for a couple of days, making new “notebooks” in checklist format. It was easy to add and rearrange tasks (so that they were in roughly chronological order for the day), and it was simple and satisfying to check off each item as I got it done (breakfast, hour of homework, hour of packing to move, etc.), and the completed tasks automatically go to a “Completed” tab, which was nice.
I have tried using the task part of Google Calendar before, but it’s just one unorganizable list with not enough functionality to be useful to me, so I appreciated Springpad in comparison. There seems to be a lot more fancy functions than I tried out, lurking in the menu for creating new notebooks, like scanning products, making book, movie, and recipe lists, and all sorts of other stuff that might be really useful or might be a little overwhelming. You can also share to and collaborate with and follow other people and their notebooks, which might be super useful or again might be overwhelming.
Personally I think I’d explore a few more options, but certainly not do everything available with any sort of regularity. Professionally, I could have specific notebooks with tasks and such going, wishlists for the school library, could collaborate with coworkers and people in other organizations, keep interested people in the loop of project progression, and more.
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