Tuesday, August 30, 2011
FolderBoy Is a Simple, Folder-Based To-Do Manager
LifeHacker: To-do apps are notorious for being difficult to navigate and more time-consuming to use and manage than the tasks you may be trying to track. FolderBoy takes a different approach to helping you organize your projects, using folders to organize categories or projects and tasks that can live in multiple categories.
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The idea is really neat, but the video premise does not exactly match what I though the app would do. It talks about wanting to be able to work but also save new ideas so I thought it would be some kind of supplemental app so you could track ideas when it really only tracks ideas and allows you to expand them in an ever-growing tree. While I like this, I wonder how often people really just sit down and map out ideas? I mean, who is this geared towards? Whose job it it to sit and think of ideas then flesh them out using this type of platform? I can see the use in inventing new things/developing multiple concepts for a new design or the like, but I do not see a lot of everyday use potential. Also, I do not think this is really that much easier than other apps on the marketplace, it might just be more familiar since it, as it notes, has a gmail influence in style and a large number of people have transitioned to gmail.
An interesting approach to todo lists in a world already saturated with todo list apps. I have been on a quest for the best to do list app and I feel like I still am not even close to it and sadly folderboy isn't any closer but it does have some features that could be worthwhile.
I'm a big fan of Remember the Milk right now primarily for its iOS support, I like to be able to access the same todo list from my iPhone and my computer without having to update either one which is what I like about RTM. RTM still has some downfalls so I am always on the lookout for some new todo list apps.
While I commend web developers for attempting means to help us organize our lives, this program falls short of being any more useful than things you probably use already on a daily basis. This seems to be a great way to distract yourself from accomplishing tasks by sorting things into neat folders, assigning them colors, etc. What it does seem to be more hinting towards is a critical path examination of tasks. It allows you to break bigger projects down into discreet tasks, that the typical handwritten to-do list doesn't typically allow. While I wouldn't use it for my day-to-day life, using it to track a large project, say a thesis, might be more applicable.
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