Ta-da List - Online To-Do List
To-Do lists are incredibly useful. I have a few notepads full of them and have started to go online with my tasks and little jobs for the day, or the points of a task itself.
Ta-da List
Ta-da List is from 37 Signals - the creators of popular online tools Basecamp, Highrise and Backpack. Sign up is simple - you need to supply a username, real name, email and password. I’m not sure why these tools require a real name - perhaps it’s in case someone steals their neighbours milk, and a check can be made to see who had that as a to-do item. The privacy policy is thankfully quite short and very clear. Once you’ve signed up you get an URL to use to login to the list.
The welcome email is short and to the point. There’s a simple Frequently Asked Questions page and I can now login. The whole process feels very clean and tidy. On the field to confirm my email address I purposefully misspelt it and the resulting error was very clear.
Creating a list just requires a title, and then you can input items. Once an item is typed, hitting enter saves the item and gives a new box. Sometimes I find there is a little lag on this and you can’t bash out the items very quickly, although it’s not a real issue. Editing and deleting items is done on the same page - clicking the X deletes and you can save the list when you’re done. Reordering is very easy - just drag the items around. Ticking the box to the left of the item will move it off the list, to a smaller one of completed items. There’s no submit or save buttons when setting up your lists.
I really like Ta-da List and use it almost every day. The interface is very simple and easy to use and it’s perfect for those simple lists. There’s an RSS feed for updates to your lists and a nice touch is the dot next to each list - the larger it is the more items there are which need to be completed.
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