App of the week: Wunderlist

22 June 2012

Getting back to my weekly gushing about my iPhone, here’s another app that I use regularly.

Wunderlist is a website app with a free iPhone app that sync together nicely. It allows me to keep simple lists (there’s not much in the way of bells and whistles). It’s easy to add items to lists. It’s easy to add new lists.

You can click press the star next to any item to send it to the top of the list (which is particularly helpful for Final Version, Mark Forster’s latest task-management system, which I’m trying out…more on that in another post).

I love Wunderkind because it’s easy to use on my computer and easy to use on my phone. It allows me to capture tasks or ideas as they occur to me.

I keep lists for (among other things):

tasks (in random order, as they occur to me)
blog post ideas
books I want to get at the library
things I might ask my intern to do when she starts in fall
clothes I want to look for

I’d say the majority of the items are entered from my keyboard at my computer. But I’m happy to be able to access them easily on my phone. I no longer have to carry a task notebook, as I did for years.

There are other apps like Wunderlist out there. For me, this one wins points for its simplicity and for its easy prioritization.

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