Friday, February 1, 2008

Milking

While I can see the efficacy of having a task manager online, Remember the Milk isn't doing it for me. It doesn't seem to be a very intuitive, well organized web site. Or is it just me? I rate a web site as useful and excellent if I can get it to work. Not an easy 'award' to give to a web site, since I can be thick when it comes to learning web 2.0, but there are things out there (blogspot for one) that I can figure out.

My complaints:
  • it seems like each time I go into it, it looks different...if I login, it has one list, if I don't there's another.
  • it includes the signature from your email as part of the message (many of us had this happen with our list additions)
  • when I tried to delete my signature, I couldn't figure it out (though a colleague helped me and I cleaned up my and other's mistakes.)
  • I can't figure out how to organize it - some listings have dates on them, some don't.
  • Too big of a learning curve on this one.
I'd like to try Jott, but my cell phone doesn't work at my desk. Makes me wonder what kind of electronic field I'm sitting in every day...?

Any other task managers out there that are easier to learn and more intuitive than Milk?

1 comment:

PandaLibrarian said...

Hi Leereer,

Great evaluation of RTM in terms of how well it works for you - that's what Project Play is all about. As for another task manager, I'm sure there are others out there. Personally, I use Outlook and my PDA to try and keep me organized. Doesn't always work - and I have to have my PDA to access my calendar and lists - but it works for me.

Keep on playing!

Jean