TODO: Search for tomorrow..

Posted by mkhairul - April 11, 2008 at 06:04:12 pm - No Comments

Categories: Development, blog

From tadalist to todoist to logarithmic time planning….

Stumbled upon a very nice web application called TODOIST in a post at polimath, TODO: Design a better todo. I liked it a lot, it beats tadalist hands down, IMO. One itch that I’d like to scratch is to be able to put in comments on it, optional and the comments are revised using the same concept as a wiki.

A comment which caught my interest is about the design of a TODO List called logarithmic time planning.

I really like what I call logarithmic time planning, in which events that are close at hand are scheduled with finer resolution than events that are far off. For example, things that happen tomorrow should be scheduled down to the minute, things that happen next week should be scheduled down to the hour, and things that happen next year should be scheduled down to the day. Why do all calendar programs force you to pick the exact minute something happens when you are trying to schedule it a year out? I just use a word processor to schedule all my events, tasks, and commitments, with resolution fading away the farther I look into the future. (It would be nice, though, to have a software tool that would gently help you make the schedule higher-resolution as time passes…)

– How to Think

That gives me an idea…

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