Snoozing TODOs

[ciphergoth]

I manage my personal TODO list with Zendone, while at work I use Google Inbox. For the most part, Zendone is the more sophisticated and capable tool, but there's one thing Inbox has that I dearly miss from Zendone: a snooze button. In Inbox I send an email, then I snooze the conversation for a few days. If I don't get a reply, I can decide what to

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[vvalkyri]

I red ember finding an extension very shiny because of a snooze functionality, and I don't think it was inbox. I'll see if I emailed a link to myself when im not on th iPad and sleep deprived.

[elsmi]

org-mode has a lovely sophisticated system for managing dates on todo items, including the distinction you mention: http://orgmode.org/manual/Deadlines-and-scheduling.html

My favorite is that it also understands the difference between "this needs to be done every Monday (even if I'm a day late this week)" and "this needs to be done every 7 days (and if I'm a day late doing it then the rest should be shifted back)", which is incredibly useful (think: vacuuming) but was very rare last time I looked around at competitors.

Of course this falls into one of the canonical unhelpful answer categories, because if you're looking for a shiny web 2.0 mobile etc. then it isn't that (though it does have some kind of phone sync options that I haven't tried). OTOH if you already have an investment in emacs or are fond of emacs-style systems -- heavy emphasis on plain text, muscle-memory friendliness, infinite fiddlingcustomizability, etc. -- then org-mode is the

[ciphergoth]

Yeah, I'm afraid I am committed to shiny Web 2.0-ness here - I need it to seamlessly sync to everything!

[drdoug]

I have no actual answer for your query.

But I want to reply anyway because the title made me smile. As you know, I call my younger son **TODO in LJ contexts, so 'Snoozing TODOs' made me think of him having a nap. Man, if there'd been a simple button to press to make that happen, my life would've been a whole lot easier when he was an infant.

[ciphergoth]

+1

[thehumanstomach]

I use To do, which has start and completion dates.

[ciphergoth]

I expect there are lots of things of that name, link me to the one you're talking about? Thanks!

[pw201]

I use Remember the Milk, which has an Android app and a website. The website is a bit clunky but there's a new beta which I've got access to as a paying user, which is nicer.

What I do is run a widget on Android which shows me everything on any todo list that needs doing today or later, and then I can postpone stuff without seeing it. It'll still be visible in other views of my todo lists, though.

It does the "when I've done this thing, it needs doing in 2 weeks from when I did it" and well as the "2 week heartbeat" (ie "repeat after" vs "repeat every") which is handy.

[ciphergoth]

I used to use RtM, but I found processing my inbox unbearably clunky; Zendone really shows how to do it right. I now can't think how I lived without Evernote integration too.