Here’s my new favorite tool to keep track of tasks, prioritize them, and distribute them to my dream team.
For years I’ve been looking for something to help me keep all the Trillamar balls in the air. Most of all, I needed something that prioritized projects and tasks and presented them in a way that wasn’t daunting. I wanted a dashboard that was clean and cheerful to keep my brain feeling uncluttered.
One of my favorite websites is newsmap and it does exactly that for news stories. It has a fantastic intuitive presentation that allows you to quickly check what’s going on in the world. Newsmap conveys the importance and timeliness of a story by the size and brightness of the box it’s in. I was envisioning something like that for my to do list.
Yes, I looked at Basecamp, but it’s expensive and didn’t visually declutter the way I wanted needed. After doing some research, my short list included these two tools:
cohuman – a google apps-enabled application that gives each task a priority score based on due date and dependency on other tasks, and
dooster – an application that allows you to specify a task’s level of importance and urgency, a la productivity guru Steven Covey.
Well, cohuman won out because I’m a heavy google apps user and it was slightly more cute and friendly looking. I LOVE the way it organizes and cutifies an otherwise hideous To Do list.
Here’s a video tour of my cohuman central control panel. I created it using another of my favorite web tools Jing, which deserves its own blog post lovefest some other time. This is Day Two of cohuman, and I like it more and more. I’m already feeling unburdened!
