Life Balance uses a structured outline with relative weighting to generate a dynamic ToDo list on the fly, with remarkable accuracy and helpfulness. It is available for PalmOS, MacOS and Windows.
Weighting is based on (roughly) how much you've already accomplished in the top-level category, how important the task is relative to its project, and where you are at the moment.
Each item is assigned an importance level, which is relative only the task above it. This means a task that is critical to the success of a minor project does not show up on the top of your to do list. That part is a big seller for me, as Life Balance does away with needing to rank all your tasks on a simple 1-5 (for example) scale.
The top levels of your outline are assigned relative priorities to one another, which means that when a category hasn't had tasks in its section finished, the importance of all its tasks rise slightly, as the days go by. This is a manifestation of the idea of Balance.
Life Balance has its own sort of organizational philosophy, but works extremely well with Allen's Getting Things Done approach, as well as Covey's First Things First. In fact, it allows you to meld the two quite well.
I am both horribly disorganized and very cheap, and have tried many different ToDo lists and organizers. The combination of Life Balance on my Palm Pilot and desktop was so clearly worth it to me that I only hesitated briefly before deciding to shell out the money for it.
Others have said--and I agree--that Life Balance should be evaluated for at least a few weeks in order for you to really see its value, since it uses your accomplishments as part of its prioritizing algorithm.
No, I don't work for the company, but after using this program for the past few months I definitely have a better grasp on my ToDos. Actually getting them done is another story--Life Balance doesn't force you to finish the things at the top of your list... But I do agree that what appears at the top indeed belongs there!
As an interesting footnote, Life Balance was originally developed for the Apple Newton, so its been around for a while.
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Life Balance uses a structured outline with relative weighting to generate a dynamic ToDo list on the fly, with remarkable accuracy and helpfulness. It is available for PalmOS, MacOS and Windows.
Weighting is based on (roughly) how much you've already accomplished in the top-level category, how important the task is relative to its project, and where you are at the moment.
Each item is assigned an importance level, which is relative only the task above it. This means a task that is critical to the success of a minor project does not show up on the top of your to do list. That part is a big seller for me, as Life Balance does away with needing to rank all your tasks on a simple 1-5 (for example) scale.
The top levels of your outline are assigned relative priorities to one another, which means that when a category hasn't had tasks in its section finished, the importance of all its tasks rise slightly, as the days go by. This is a manifestation of the idea of Balance.
Life Balance has its own sort of organizational philosophy, but works extremely well with Allen's Getting Things Done approach, as well as Covey's First Things First. In fact, it allows you to meld the two quite well.
I am both horribly disorganized and very cheap, and have tried many different ToDo lists and organizers. The combination of Life Balance on my Palm Pilot and desktop was so clearly worth it to me that I only hesitated briefly before deciding to shell out the money for it.
Others have said--and I agree--that Life Balance should be evaluated for at least a few weeks in order for you to really see its value, since it uses your accomplishments as part of its prioritizing algorithm.
No, I don't work for the company, but after using this program for the past few months I definitely have a better grasp on my ToDos. Actually getting them done is another story--Life Balance doesn't force you to finish the things at the top of your list... But I do agree that what appears at the top indeed belongs there!
As an interesting footnote, Life Balance was originally developed for the Apple Newton, so its been around for a while.