Remember the Milk, and other things
I spent the last I-don't-know-how-many years of my life in a seemingly constant rainfall of post-it notes and napkins, each with some number of my own reminders scrawled on them. If I had no paper, well, my own left hand would do for taking down a reminder (which could be anything from, "Buy milk" to "Find that post-it you lost, or try to remember what was on it.") [Aside: I'm going to skip making a joke about the left hand knowing what the right hand is up to, because that would just be bad.]
Anyway, I tried all sorts of non-paper-and-pencil task-organization systems, but they were all platform-dependent and just really didn't suit my needs: multiple inputs, multiple outputs, always in my face, easy, convenient, simple, sharable.
Enter Remember the Milk. This is basically To-Do in the age of Web 2.0.
Then take that, and put it on your Active Desktop (if you're a Windows user) with this nifty tip from Third Error.
Then, go throw away all those stupid lists. Or set them on fire. It's really up to you. You can get your task list texted to you each morning via Twitter, check it out on your Desktop and update it via email/Twitter/text/etc.
For someone with a brain chock full of both useful and useless information, this is Big, and not in the Tom Hanks sort of way.
