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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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I've been using a basic...Submitted by Joel (not verified) on January 2, 2007 - 1:30pm.
I've been using a basic Hipster PDA for the past three semesters and it only gets more useful as time goes on. I used to use on card per class to keep track of what I had to do, but I found that I needed a little more scheduling than that. Now I have a card per class to keep track of assignments with more detail (a list of all the problems in an assigned problem set, for example) and then a card for each day of the week with a list of what I plan to get done each day. Once a week --- Monday, last semester, but probably Tuesday or Sunday this coming semester --- I look at each class's syllabus and plot out the coming week. I used to use various programs --- iCal, Entourage, and Google Calendar have all been tried --- but I found that it was much more useful to just keep it all on paper in my pocket. » POSTED IN:
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