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Tech Review quote
Gootodo featured in this Tech Review story about emerging Web 2.0 tools. From Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact:
"The current suite of office tools, Word and Outlook chief among them, are simply too hard to use," says Mark Hurst, author of Gootodo...
Hurst argues that mainstream software and Internet companies are still obsessed with finding ways to send consumers more information -- for example, in the form of RSS feeds and shared calendar entries. "Most tools allow people more ways of consuming more bits. But that doesn't make people more productive," Hurst says.
What's needed instead, Hurst argues, is a way to receive fewer bits. A central feature of Gootodo, for example, is the ability to transfer non-urgent tasks to the Gootodo task list at a future date by e-mail, thereby keeping the current day's to-do list as short as possible. "If people use Google Calendar without also using a to-do list manager like Gootodo, they are at risk of being overwhelmed," Hurst says. "Everyone's got different needs. But there is a psychic cost to keeping bits around."
