Great post! Teuxdeux is my homepage at work and has been pretty much since it was released. Not only is it beautifully simple to use, it also looks great and i can vouch for its productivity-boosting powers.

Anyone else list things they’ve already done, just for the satisfaction of ceissing them off?

Been going nuts waiting for the iphone app, which will increase my productivity by another 800%, making me almost unstoppable!

Can I edit list items? Seems not…

That should have read ‘crossing them off’. Big fingers, don’t ask.

To edit items you can drag them into the text box, then change text and re-list.

Never really missed the option to edit items, i just focus on crossing them off!

or you can use a piece of paper :)

Thanks Ross, so that’s how to edit items!

@Dean… Haha yeah but since when did paper ever look this good?

I’va always used a complex system of A4 / A5 notebooks for to-do lists, most often augmented with a variety of post-it notes, scraps of paper with pens left strategically pointed at them (which means ‘priority’).

Needless to say, it was NOT a good system. Now my desk retains a nice minimalist aesthetic (mouse, ipod, phone, keyboard, cigarettes), while teuxdeux keeps my workflow rolling.

Also, I find it quite handy as a way of tracking the volume of different tasks I’ve done over the past weeks, months, whatever. Nothing better than flicking back a week and seeing a whole load of greyed-out completed tasks.

I’m really not this much of a geek. Well…

Almost off-topic, but here goes: It took me five minutes and the oft overlooked browser title bar (“What deux yeux have teux deux teuxday?”) to figure out to pronounce that service.

A fake French accent in American English is not the first phonetic pattern that comes to the mind of this German native… Tsk-tsk… :-)

Hey Alex,

This is a really nice post. Thanks for all the kind words about TeuxDeux.
Keep an eye out for an iphone app in the next couple of weeks.

We’re also going to beef up the webapp just a bit not too long after that. Bug testing now.

ahhh, thank god for your comment, Ross! It makes 2 features I missed concrete… like:

- clickable links (if you save links)
- edit

Still missing
- fast horizontal scrolling between weeks or days (mouse wheel would be great), since I use lots of dates in 4 weeks time.
- repeated events

i’m just repeating what everyone else has said. GREAT app that i use EVERYDAY at work keeps this clutterbug(?) clutterfree. boing boing!

very cool. Android has a similar app called Evernote that pretty much does the same thing. been out for a while now.

brilliant! I hope they dont add a lot of features and clutter it all up.

I personally find this quite pointless. That said it’s perhaps because my workflow already includes three to-do actions:

1. For to-do items I wish to do in the rather uncertain future I use Tasks inside Gmail. It’s good because I can always access them on my phone or wherever I am and they still remain there as a reminder as I (quite frequently) check my email.

2. For general to-do items I use my phone. I’ve got a Nokia 5230 and Symbian handles all of the things I’d need for a to-do list. It’s great because they are all in one place and it’s great because every time I unlock my phone there they are for quick review and reminding.

3. For specific dates I just add the to-do as an appointment because that allows me to set an alarm and so on and it’s really easy to see my tasks for the coming days and so on.

I really have a hard time understanding the need for a web service of this sort and I hope you’ll find my system useful.

Looks great. I’lll give it a try but chances are, I’ll probably end up not using it because I prefer writing things down. For some reason, the act of writing a list helps me remember better things I need to accomplish for the week. Plus I get to doodle on said piece of paper. I like to keep it this way because it doesn’t involve being on a computer and going to a website. That right there is one too many steps for me to create a list. I’m lazy like that. So, pen and paper will prevail. I want this to work out so who knows, it might!

Agree with you there Tom, faster scrolling would be handy.

I can totally relate to the whole writing-things-down-makes-them-memorable thing, but who needs to remember when you have teux deux? The iphone app will complete me.

I doodle on post-its. Is there a flickr group for post-it note art? If not there should be…

Works well for me. I work in a firm, and do side work with my wife. She is home with our children and we can both update/edit the schedule and both then see the changes quickly.

And now my life is more simple.
Thank you, Alex.

yeah TeuxDeux is amazing for sure. I’ve been using it since the day it came out as well. I can’t wait to get ahold of the iPhone app.

Thanks Alex, I always keep everything in my mind and I must admit it does not work out very well. I’ll start using it today.

Ah! This is going to be my new best friend! Thanks for sharing :)

I use Google Tasks as well. It fits neatly into my workflow, as I already use gmail and the google calendar frequently, and I love the two-way flow between the gcalendar and tasks. There is a plug-in for Chrome that displays Tasks nicely in the full browser window.

That being said, as a writer I totally believe in the power of the written word and have semi-superstitious beliefs about writing things down and the power of that physical act calling things into existence ;-) I LOVE writing myself To Do lists and checking off completed tasks.

This sounds like an interesting solution for those who do not use a google account and/or are looking for a new task list system.

Borring and off topic post.. I suspect it to be a commercial…

i used to use this but then decided its easier to just keep a “to do” text file in my dropbox folder.

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The iphone app is done, in the appstore and on my iphone.

Yippee kai ai!

I like TeuxDeux, but I like Things (for Mac and iPhone) a lot more. TeuxDeux just doesn’t have enough functionality at the moment. The space devoted to to-do items is way too small and doesn’t work for me. I can’t look at what I need to do at a glance; there is little reason why my to-do list should look like this:

Design new concept f …
Take Rocko to dog tr …
Go to the movies wit …

It’s cool that it’s free, though.

And now my life is more simple.
Thank you, Alex.

fucking love it!

For those still thinking about it:

Today it got a new update – and they implemented a small overlay-calendar and a fast week jump! I was missing this for months”

Still no repeated events though but that isn’t that important.