How I Get Things Done

“How do you keep track of all the things you need to do? Whilst developing DataCocoon I found that there were so many things to keep track of - finishing the software itself, building the website, getting the artwork done, setting up the Ltd…

On the bigger scale (“bug X needs to be fixed”, “there needs to be a help file”) I just tracked everything in my bug database, as I have for years with any software project. But that doesn’t work very well for the day-to-day, finer-grained list of actions that need to be done in order to achieve the bigger goals.

After reading the excellent Getting Things Done and being overrun with to-do lists jotted down on scraps of paper, I decided it was time I got things computerized.”</i>

Over on the MCQN Ltd. blog I’ve posted an article about how I keep track of my daily to-do items.

The main reason for the post is to announce that everyone else now has the opportunity to use the same tool to keep on top of everything they need to do and so become more productive. I’ve polished up the web app that I’ve been using for the past few months now and tedium is now up and running on the Internet.