elruso.com Blog » Productivity http://elruso.com/blog Evgueni Pervago writing about Web 2.0 and technology in general Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:54:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Todo lists galore and a short review of Rough Underbelly http://elruso.com/blog/2006/06/23/todo-lists-galore-and-a-short-review-of-rough-underbelly/ http://elruso.com/blog/2006/06/23/todo-lists-galore-and-a-short-review-of-rough-underbelly/#comments Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:33:27 +0000 Evgueni Pervago http://elruso.com/blog/2006/06/23/todo-lists-galore-and-a-short-review-of-rough-underbelly/ SolutionWatch posted a great review of 25 TODO lists. I’ve tried Remember the milk but for some reason it didn’t click with me. The one I find interesting is Rough Underbelly (those Web 2.0 names, sigh…). Unlike other lists, you assign either 1, 2, 5, or 10 points for each task depending on its importance (the following list is from Printable CEO):

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You then maintain the list as any common to-do list but the points done each day are tallied automatically and can be displayed as a chart.

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I think it’s a great idea especially for people whose time is somewhat flexible and some measure of productivity is important: especially when there is a big difference between “Check data on slide X” and “Set-up a structure for a presentation”.

One suggestion for improvement would be custom legends (e.g. 2 points=”My Action X”) because having to maintain mental mapping of actions to points can get bothersome and kind of defeats the original purpose of Printable CEO.

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