Freeware Applications

Projects

[Version described: 1.8.3c]

Projects is most easily described as “named To Do Lists.” Each project is a list much like the standard To Do List: list items include due dates, categories, priorities, a checked/unchecked status, and an optional note.

In addition to the items, each project also has a note, priority, category, and state (status)—all associated with the list as a whole, rather than with any one item. Project’s concept of state is essentially a second set of categories that can be associated with projects.

Project can filter the list of projects by category, state, or both. The list of items displayed when viewing a project can be filtered by category or unchecked, or both, and sorted by category, priority, or due date—just as with To Do List.

Items in any list can be exported (copied) to any other list, including the To Do List.

Each list has its own set of categories, so your grocery shopping list might have categories such as Produce, Bakery, and Dairy, while your work assignments might have client or manager names as categories.

The directory of lists has its own set of categories, so your projects might be categorized as Work, Family, Household, and Personal. The directory of lists also has a set of states (statuses), which might be process categories such as Active, Blocked, Pending, and so forth; each project also can be assigned a state. You do not need to use all this categorization if you do not want to, of course.

Projects is useful for stand-alone lists (grocery shopping list, trip packing checklist), for lists of tasks for specific projects, and for lists of repeating tasks (daily, weekly on Monday, etc.) that you export to your To Do List when appropriate. As discussed in the Writing section, it can even be used to organize sections of a large document.

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