Business Bricks

Battle of the to-do list software. — Whereas Ta-da List [1] is deliberately minimalist, Remember the Milk [2] is deliberately maximalist. — We just sold our flat and used [1] to tick-off all 67 renovation tasks we faced at the start of November. Most of the time I manage my to-do list(s) using my favourite text editor. But the magic of [1] is that it offers far less features and flexibility than your average text editor or word processor. You can group and share and tick-off tasks, but there’s no sleep function, flags or colour coding to help you procrastinate. — [2] is yang to [1]’s yin: “what started as a simple idea soon became a huge web application with every feature imaginable”. — Both [1] and [2] are hugely popular because they lie at the extremes. People don’t want software with some features. They want software with very few features or very many features.