Workflowy

If you are in the market for a new way of organizing your tasks look no more. Below are three videos for three very different ways of organizing your tasks or next actions.

Orchestra

Pros

Web and iPhone app
Speak-to-text feature for entering new tasks
Ability to set reminders and recurring tasks (daily, weekly, monthly and yearly)
Ability to add tasks by email
Ability to assign people tasks and chat within the app

Teux Deux

Pros

Web and iPhone app
Great design
Simplicity
Weekly layout for easy daily and weekly planning
Ability to save tasks in a “Someday” category

Pros

Web and mobile web app
Ability to share lists with others
Easy exporting to plain text
Unique design for bullet-point lovers
Lot’s of keyboard shortcuts
Ability to manage lots of lists
Great search feature
Ability to create tags to organize lists

The Verdict

The app I would suggest depends on your personal quirks and goals for task management. For personal tasks I use Orchestra because it has a great iPhone app (which is the main way I manage, I rarely use laptop) and I think the voice-to-text feature is super slick. The only thing that is missing is tweaking it to manage projects better (for project management at work I’m currently using Asana)

Are you using one of these apps, or something else to manage all the stuff on your plate

Workflowy is a super cool organization app that I found through this Convo Group post. The video below will explain what it does better than I can.

If you have an iPhone you will be sad to learn that Workflowy doesn’t have a native app yet. But, the web version does work really well on my phone. The following will show you how to create a Workflowy icon that you can click on instead of bookmarking it in Safari.

If you are unfamiliar with native vs. web mobile applications check out this article. It explains the pros and cons of developing both kinds of applications. I personally learned a lot from it.