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Two new Gootodo features: recurrence and alpha sort
I just launched two new features in my todo list app, Gootodo: recurring todos and alpha sort. Thanks to everyone who sent in feedback - these features are a direct result of your requests!
Recurring Todos
This was the number one most-requested Gootodo feature. Within "Your Account", users can click "Create Recurring Todo" to create a todo that occurs once a day, once a weekday, once a week, or once a month - up to 50 todos at once. The page is pretty self-explanatory:
Alphabetical Sorting
Users can now view todos alphabetically by name. In "Your Account", click "Change Sorting Options", and you'll see this high-tech interface:
Whenever you want, you can switch back to priority sorting, using the up-and-down arrows.
Alphabetical sorting allows you to organize your todo list by category or context - something a LOT of people asked for. Just name the todo with the category at the beginning of the name, and the alpha sort takes care of the rest.
For example, if you want to see all your "home" todos displayed together, name them as such:
home - do laundry
home - make dentist appt
home - prepare shopping list
If you want a category to appear at the bottom of the list, just start the name with "z", as in "z home - do laundry".
You can also start todo names with numbers, and they'll go to the top of the list. "0 walk the dog" would be at the top, followed by "1 cook breakfast", followed by todos with names - "address book update" - and so on.
Of course, if you prefer to sort your todos with the arrows, that's fine, too - whatever makes you most productive!
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Finally, a note on the philosophy: As I write in my book Bit Literacy, it's essential to have all your todos on one list, not divided among several lists, thereby forcing you to wonder which list you should be looking at. On your one list - today's list in Gootodo - I think it's a fine idea to organize todos by context.
If you're not using it already, try it out: Gootodo.com.
