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Sitting in the Austin Airport, waiting for my flight home, I'm trying to gather my thoughts about the tasks and chores at home that need to be addressed. I've been lucky enough to stay home for two weeks (yes, Thanksgiving helped). As much as I was looking forward to two solid weeks with the family, I was also stressed and filled with thoughts of tasks that needed completion. Before the tasks started getting lost in the gray matter of my brain, I quickly began scribbling down my to-do list. Another to-do list amidst the sea of many I've already started!
When I first started in the work force, the age of Franklin-Covey (FC) was upon us. The traditionalists walked around the office with binders of various sizes, custom pages, and often couldn't run to the toilet without first consulting their calendar! The early adopters, geeks and those with expendable cash were flocking to pick up this new tool called the Palm Pilot, about the size of a tri-fold wallet, that could carry your to-do list, calendar and even games (whoah, how cool). As I was scribbling my list of things, I thought back to my own planner, then my Handspring, and began wondering which of the tools today should I use for my list, and my how things have changed in a matter of 12 years.
Like many of us, keeping my to-do list organized and up to date is a chore often forgotten. Throughout all of our planning and good intentions (and we know what good intentions are for), maintaining our task list is often the first thing to fall victim to priorities. So many tools exist today in order to help us with this never ending challenge. What was a day-planner or Palm (PALM) Pilot, now becomes RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry, Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, Microsoft's (MSFT)Outlook, or one of the many online utilities. I often wonder how many more tasks I would have accomplished if I wasn't surfing the net for comparisons of tools like Toodledo, Remember The Milk, and Google Tasks (GOOG).
When it came down to it, the most reliable recording mechanism I could use for my list was quite simple. I needed something that wouldn't get destroyed if it got wet, something I could tuck in my pocket during one of my many trips to the store -- Lowe's (LOW) had missed me! -- and something that wouldn't break if I dropped it from the ladder or roof of the house. Was it my Outlook Calendar? BlackBerry? One of the myriad of online tools? Nope, my needs were satisfied with a simple stick filled with graphite and a piece of recycled tree pulp known as papyrus. Why didn't somebody tell me about these cool utilities earlier?
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