Is your to-do list a bloated scary monster? Mine is. Before I had children, I used to pride myself on how very efficient I was. Now, with two small children I feel like I am constantly crazy busy, yet never get anything done! How is this possible?! Small children require a lot of hands-on, interactive parenting, and while it’s a short-lived job, it leaves little time to accomplish all your tasks. The cherry on top is that you are utterly exhausted come bedtime and yet there is still a mountain of things undone on that annoying to-do list. Parents are multitasking fiends and are indeed a special species all of their own. Homo Parenteous Insaneous Multitaskus.
Enter OneThingToday. It’s an awesome to-do app for the iPhone and the Mac. It helps you to focus on one single goal each day, avoiding the distraction of all your other pending tasks or ongoing projects. You simply assign a single task or project to each day and Git ‘er Done! OneThingToday is designed for people who only have time to tackle one major task each day, and who find themselves overwhelmed by all their pending tasks in their limited time. It helps you prioritize the one thing that is most important for you to complete each day. It is genius in it’s simplicity. As one user puts it, “…you will be amazed at how good you feel as you start to whittle away at what was previously an overwhelming to-do list.”
It is just what I needed! Today, for instance, while wading neck-deep in all of my regular daily tasks, I was finally able to get rid of the bags of clothing I’ve been meaning to take to Goodwill (for the past 2 months) because it was my OneThingToday task. Hooray!
OneThingToday is not only good for Insaneous Multitaskeous, it’s also good for iPhoneus Irritateus, the executive mom or dad. The iPhone app is available at the iPhone app store and the Mac version is available from Line Thirteen.
Full disclosure: OneThingToday is brought to you from your friendly neighborhood biophysicist. My brilliant husband, Dr. McCutiePants, actually developed this software. He’s got a passion for programming. I’d like to think he did it all for me because he loves me so much, but I’m guessing he did it to finally get me to remove all those bags of Goodwill donations from our garage!
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To Enter: Simply leave a comment here telling me what your OneThingToday task would be for the day. Also please specify which app you would like to win – the iPhone app or the Mac version. Winner will be selected at random.
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Closes July 21, 2010 at 5pm PST
OK my one task for today is to go return some onesies that I overpaid for at Babies-r-us. Of course this has to be done after bedtimes because of the stupid Elmo car at the entry way that causes a toddler meltdown EVERY TRIP. iphone version please although my iphone is a month away. PS Pretty impressed you have such a talented husband–if I have an app ideas I’m sending them your way!
I just bought the app… and crossed one thing off my todo list.
My one task for today is to take my camera outside and take pictures of some of the beautiful flowers that are in bloom now. I would like to have the Mac version of this. Just got a new one, and I am loving it.
My one thing today is actually a lot of little things for a bigger picture~~ does that count? I am cooking for tomorrow {the 4th o July} picnic. I guess for my phone because it is almost always with me
thankie