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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 combination...Submitted by Yanik (not verified) on January 2, 2007 - 9:31am.
I've been using a combination of both a good old paper agenda (hey, it works for me!) to get assignments down, and del.icio.us + Backpack to do research. I post interesting links/sources of information to del.icio.us with a tag relevant to my project (say: christmasessay-dec2306), and I basically outline my entire project using Backpack. Once that's done, all I need to do is sit down and write my draft, read it over + correct, print it and hand it in. Note that this doesn't work for anything that isn't an essay or research project, but we don't have other kinds of assignments so it isn't much of an issue for me. » POSTED IN:
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