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Task List: Handy student app for tracking assignments
Merlin Mann | Jan 2 2007
Task List is a promising looking new app for students who want to track the tasks associated with homework and other assignments. As a former dysfunctional student, I like the way you can filter work by class, gauge progress on assigments, set priorities, and then track the results, such as the grade you received, etc. It also has support for "Classcasts," syncs with .Mac, and seems to work nicely with iCal. As with many tricked-out task apps, there's plenty of room for bogging down in the sort of fiddly meta-work that's more fun than, say, actually reading Bleak House, but this app is far from the worst attractive nuisance I've seen in that regard. Based on my 20 minutes of running through it yesterday, it looks like a useful application for managing the rat's nest of tasks standing between you and your sheepskin.
What are you organized Mac students out there using to keep it all together? 25 Comments
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Without having tried any of...Submitted by Dave Mahan (not verified) on January 8, 2007 - 9:58am.
Without having tried any of the mentioned software, I have to wonder-- is there a reason to keep a list of school projects and tasks separate from the other projects and tasks in one's life? Because that's essentially what this would do for you. So you would have two "super-projects": school on the one hand and everything else on the other. Of course, this is how most full-time workers have their time divided: work stuff and personal stuff. So if you can keep a clear division between school activities and non-school activities, it might be handy. You'd have to say, "I'm doing nothing but school stuff now," (just like you do when you go to work) and pull up the program. However, there are other competing priorities in life that you might need to keep in the same realm of awareness as your school stuff. Two systems could make this hard. » POSTED IN:
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