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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.
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To me it seems like...Submitted by Jack B. (not verified) on January 3, 2007 - 6:02am.
To me it seems like all of these apps (Task List, Assignment Planner, and Schoolhouse) are really just glorified to-do list programs. That can be nice, but I need an app that gives me some context to my priorities and due dates. I've set up a basic spreadsheet in Excel that has days of the week as the top row and my classes as the leftmost column. That gives me a weekly table where I can write down each of my assignments on the day they're due. It's much more powerful than a to-do list. Additionally, almost all of my tasks are recurring. I need to make sure that (for instance) I read 20 pages of a textbook this week. But I also need to read 20 pages next week... and the next. Hence, I keep a "Template" spreadsheet within my Excel file that contains on it only all the recurring tasks I have to do. When each new week arrives, I copy the "Template" spreadsheet and it becomes my working assignment list for that week. I can add one-time-only tasks to it as they come along, but the recurring tasks are already written down from last time. » POSTED IN:
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