Google's already well down this road with its productivity tools, which by design do not include a dedicated to-do list app. All of these things mean the to-do list is giving way to the task cloud that follows you everywhere, jolting you with a lightning bolt when you need to do something. Wearables have access to vital signs and other data that could optimize your productivity. An app can use the time and your location to remind you of tasks not just at the right time, but in the right place. These reminders will grow more powerful as your devices learn more about you. Other apps use push notifications as the default hey-remember-me gesture for keeping you on task. "Having an awareness of what you need to get done helps motivate people," Ciarlo says. Next." There's just enough guilt involved in hitting snooze that I often just complete the task. The easiest way to move on to the next card is to complete it or "snoozing" it, which is another way of saying, "Yeah, I'm not doing that now. Michael Ciarlo, creator of a new app called Doo, thinks the best way to do this is to make you establish eye contact with the task in front of you. Having made it easy to jot down a thought almost as soon as it enters your head, developers are moving on to making you check things off. It's still not enough to ditch the pen and pad once and for all.
Great job, everybody! There's just one problem. Until someone creates a telepathic smartphone interface, the problem of immediacy is pretty much solved. And Siri and Cortana and Android Widgets are closing the gap even further. It was everywhere you needed it, when you needed it, and faster than writing things down because you could pretty much use whatever box you happened to be typing into. The app integrated into Gmail before doing so was cool and with Siri before Apple deigned to let it. Equally important, you could add tasks from anywhere: tweet them, email them, Skype them, even IM them. The app featured a concept called "Smart Add" that let you, say, type "Pay rent on last day of month" and have it land on the right list, the right date, whatever. Remember the Milk cracked this in part about a decade ago. A to-do list must be fast and flexible enough to keep up with your thoughts. Jotting things down is faster, easier, and better for cognition.
"Input and output is too hard." That's one reason pen and paper remain so popular. Come on!" He sounds exasperated just thinking about it. "If you have to turn on your phone," Allen says, "click here, click that little icon, go to there. But technology isn't especially good at this. This makes it imperative that developers make it really, really easy to create lists and add things to it. If your list is incomplete or, worse, outdated, you simply aren't going to do check it. The first thing a to-do list needs is to-dos.
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