World Builder Bruce Branit Microsoft Office Labs Vision 2019

I have a history of using an organizational system for about six months, then getting frustrated and giving up on it. This is usually compounded by my preference for software organizers over paper; I have to deal with technological obsolescence as well. And in my experience, moving from one piece of organizational software to another is just as much of a pain as manually copying out a physical organizer. Late last year, I told myself that if there were no better options, I would write my own organizer. Failing that I would go back to paper, and just cope.  And it's getting to be about that time. So without further ado, here's a list of the organizational services I have found, and really should take a close look at:

• Remember The Milk
• Sandy's Back (in development)
• Cc:Betty
• Enleiten
• Nozbe
• 30 Boxes
• Smartsheet
• Vitalist
• TSheets
• Toodledo
• 43 Actions
• Mentat
• And everything by 37 Signals.

Pretty much all of these systems are web based.  This doesn't bother me as much as it used to; I almost always have my phone and it's ludicrously oversized data plan with me.  Some of them already have helper programs for my phone.  And many of them are geek friendly, and have exposed APIs as well as calendar and RSS feeds. One thing that gives me pause is each of these services may disappear at any moment.  In fact, that happened to I Want Sandy when its developer was bought by Twitter.