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Windows only: Free desktop task manager FruitfulTime is a lightweight portable to-do list application. Split tasks into sub tasks, assign priority, mark incremental completion of tasks, set reminders...

Productivity blogger Andre Kibbe knows that he gets distracted early and often by hang-ups, inconveniences, and a school of distractions just waiting to take him away from his tasks. He recommends a...

Windows only: Freeware application FusionDesk Starter is a full-featured task management application with an emphasis on author David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology. FusionDesk sports an...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Thunderbird): Harness the to-do-managing power of Remember the Milk from inside your mail reader with an alpha extension for Thunderbird. Once installed and authenticated with your...

Windows only: Killing runaway, memory-gobbling processes from Windows' task manager is easy—if you know the name of every process and thread on your system and which apps they match up with....

Like many Web workers and folks who spend a lot of time online, I often use my Inbox as my master To-Do list. However, I am clear that with over 400 incoming messages a day, this process is not sustainable and I've needed to find a better task management solution.

Over the last few days I've been playing with Cultured Code's Things.app for the Mac OS, and I don't know if I'm just high-in-love with this new application, or if this honeymoon stage will end soon. Still, I thought I'd post my first impressions and share my excitement with Things.app.

Now, I'm not a huge GTD advocate (the framework Things is built around), although it doesn't seem to matter. What I've needed is a way to quickly add new tasks, prioritize them, add tags and notes and sort them by my contexts, such as work, home, wedding, family, etc.

While Things has limited complexity, it still seems to be a powerful approach to task management and a perfect fit for how I organize my day.

If you're an index card junkie but you end up with a bottomless pile of cards before you have a chance to process your tasks, weblog LifeClever suggests ditching traditional index cards in favor of...