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Track Your Daily Tasks with Zero Complexity

I simply can't function without some sort of daily to do list. As I've mentioned before, I frequently carry a big yellow pad around with me which has a list of all my active tasks, and I re-copy it from one page to the next each and every day. Why don't I use an online task manager? Most of them, like the venerable Remember the Milk, are just too complicated. I need something so simple that it's like a pad of paper.

And now I've found it. Daily Todo is the simplest online task manager ever -- in fact, it's almost indistinguishable from pen and paper. in its simplicity There's no registration or log-in. Just go to the site, enter each of your to dos, and click Save. No due dates, no repeat intervals, no priorities.

You'll get a simple page with a list of tasks that you can check off as you complete, with a trailing status showing which tasks you've also checked off on previous days.

Daily Todo sounds too simple to be useful, but that's far from the case. I've starting keeping the page open, snapped to one side of my screen, where it helps keep me focused and productive. And there's no messy paper or complicated process for setting up the virtual page.

And if Daily Todo doesn't quite float your boat, check out our recent task manager roundup of the 5 best ways to track your tasks. [via One Thing Well]

Photo courtesy Flickr user Marshall Astor

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