Homeschool Tech Mom: To Do Lists

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

To Do Lists - Nice & Easy

One of the key ingredients to homeschooling successfully is finding a way to stay organized. Homeschool parents and their kids have lots on their plate, so it's great when we discover tools to help us manage our time more effectively.

For my family, we have found that the best way to get more done is to create "to do" lists. Recently I discovered a website that allows us to create these lists online. Introducing Wunderlist... which in my opinion is absolutely "wunderful".

Wunderlist is a free and easy to use task manager. This web-based tool allows you to create a to do list for anything you need to get done. Science Fair projects. Field trips. Library books to check out. College applications. Saturday morning cleaning. Whatever list you need to create, Wunderlist can handle it.

When you create your to do lists with Wunderlist, you can choose a date for when each task item needs to be completed, or no due date at all. Plus you can add a note with additional details to any task on your list. If you are the kind of person that has multiple to do lists (and who isn't) you will appreciate that Wunderlist has a a feature that allows you to see EVERYTHING you have do Today, Tomorrow, Next 7 Days, Later, and No Date. It's a great way of having a birds-eye view of everything on your plate.

What I especially like is that because it's web-based you can access it anywhere. So if you get to the library and don't remember the books you wanted to check out, you could use the library's computer to access your list, or if you have mobile device (iPhone, Android, iPad, etc.) you can quickly look them up.

Wunderlist also gives you the ability to share your to do lists with other people. So whether you wish to collaborate with family members or friends, you can share specific tasks or an entire list by email. Wunderlist even helps you to stay on task by sending you a friendly reminder when you've got tasks that are overdue.

I really like Wunderlist. It's clean, simple, and easy to use. Best of all ... it's free.