Suggestions on task organization, and other thoughts

[dracodoc]

I found your software in a search for GTD software, it is promising to
me. But I think there are some limitations with folder methods to
organize the tasks.
There are almost as many ways as user for task management, but I think
this view is most versatile and flexible:
Tasks have all kinds of properties/tags/labels. Priority,
time,location,categories are most used. Time property is special and
need special support, priority can be sorted, but others are just
different labels under different views. I think this organization
method could support almost any needs of user:
Tasks should be organized in logical hierarchy, such as work,
home, projects. This is the first order view user would see and use.
Tasks can have subtasks, to divide big tasks into smaller
actionable tasks. Listo only support one level of task, and folder is
not suitable for this purpose.
User should be able to pick any property or property combination
to filter tasks, like "Next Action, task for work", "scheduled in next
week, home and work". I wish there could be drop down list for every
kind of property(user can add new category of property and new
instance of property too, such as Location: home, company, onRoad;
EnergyNeeded: heavy, light;) , then user can easily chose any
combination of property to filter tasks, and save some combination to
preset for future use. -- listo support multiple folders for single
task, but that is very limited and unnatural for tasks with multiple
aspect of properties.

Besides, I found listo need some startup time in my laptop, although
the user interface response is pretty good for java applications. And
it used a lot of memory -- 66M in my case, it's huge compare to the
file size of listo. I think this can be improved if you use SWT
library from IBM/Eclipse, but maybe iPhone is not supported by SWT
right now.

In summary, listo looks pretty good to me, although the folder
management is rather limited from GTD software standards.

Regards
draco doc

[yaakov]

Just one thing: in GTD, task doesn't have subtask, else it is a
project.

As to lis.to, for managing projects, I use a folder Project with
subfolder for the different projects that need breakdown. "Keep it
simple" is I think one principle enforced by lis.to with success - as
opposed to other heavy overcrapped gtd-ish software out there.

Regarding other task information - you can always put it in the task
description - and use the search to fetch them according to that
pattern.