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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.
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.
ReplyDeleteAn 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.
ReplyDeleteI'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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