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Best To-Do List Software?

Posted by michael on from the small-spiral-notebook-works-well dept.

JojoLinkyBob writes "Greetings, Council of Slashdot. I am curious what everyone here recommends as their favorite organizational software. Specifically, I am trying to find a simple freeware/open-source todo list manager. In the past, I've dabbled with TreePad, Shadow Plan, Mantis, and various virtual sticky- note apps ..all with mixed success. Currently, I'm back to my old-school ways of scribbling my todo's on the back of each Daily Dilbert Calendar page, which sadly means today is June 23 :)"

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  1. data managers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    there really is only one contender for me, and that's Richard Curnow's tdl, awesome for programmers and just day to day todo lists.

    If you're looking for a structured way to store your random bits of data, there'
    s treeline, a really simple but rea
    lly effective little app.

    I'm not really a bells & whistles type of guy, i like my apps streamlined and effective :)

  2. Mozilla Sunbird by Aliencow · · Score: 5, Informative

    Still a bit buggy, but with calendar, shared calendar support, publishing through webdav, it has the potential of being as good as iCal !

  3. Ecco URL by buckminster · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ecco is still the best. You are correct that it hasn't been updated since 1997, but it's definitely a Win32 application. I've heard rumours that it runs under WINE as well.

    Netmanage essentially abandoned this product although you can still download for free from their ftp site:
    ftp://ftp.netmanage.com/support/pub/utilities/EC40 1/

    Users manual should be included as well.

    This is way more than just a simple outline program. Think unlimited relational outlines connected by user definable columns. All fully integrated with the calendar and address book.

    As I contemplate switching to various other platforms this is still the one application I cannot live without. No other outliner/pim comes close to ECCO.