On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 06:43:16PM +0000, Steve Fosdick wrote:
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 15:57 +0000, Chris G wrote:
It could be built simply as HTML but it would be nice to have some facilities for raising alarms etc.
Adding to my previous message on the subject Remember The Milk has the facility for periodic reminder e-mails and the mobile phone clients have the option of notifications with sound etc.
Also, on the ToodleDo website is a comparison table that lists various other similar services which could be a good start.
Thanks for this and other pointers. During my searches I too have come across "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. I think he highlights my reasons for not finding a calendar/diary to my liking but his alternatives don't really do it for me either.
Looking at the (fairly simple) task lists in Evolution, Sunbird, etc. they do quite a bit of what I want *but* they really don't link well with web pages. Links in Evolution tasks are just broken (for me anyway, and others report the same issue), links in Sunbird work OK but pop up in Firefox running on a different screen (if that's where it's running) which isn't integrated enough for me I'm afraid.
I have installed a caldav server (davical) and that provides multi-user web based tasks etc. but, as far as I can tell, there are few good caldav clients, especially not web based ones.
I'll keep looking, I may just end up using web pages I build myself (using reStructuredText to make it easy) and a task list of some sort in the background.