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TUAW’S Daily iPad App: Pocket Informant HD

WebIS Pocket Informant is an advanced PIM that has been around for years, transitioning from the Windows Mobile platform to iOS quite nicely. The iPad version of this calendaring and task management app is particularly notable for its wonderful la...

TaskRabbit iPhone app lets you crowdsource your tasks

TaskRabbit is a unique service that lets busy people offload their tasks to those willing to do them. It costs a small fee, but you can have your groceries delivered, laundry done and dogs walked before you return home from a busy day at work. W...

TUAW Giveaway: Bugger puts repeated reminders in your pocket

Given the number of things you have to keep track of in a day, sometimes a simple task manager -- the kind that reminds you once and then waits until the next day to tickle you again -- doesn't seem adequate. If you wish you had a snooze button for you...

Separating Lists from Tasks: Pocket Docket for iPhone

I love list apps. I buy far too many of them, and half of the time I wind up just leaving them in my iTunes app library, not even on my phone. I see the difference between task managers and list makers. Things and Omnifocus are task managers. There are due dates and tags. There’s...

iOS 4 Task Switching Bug — Apps and Hard Resets

I’ve been using my new iPhone 4 for over a week and now that I’ve had some time to explore it I’m learning a lot about the hardware and software that it came with. The iPhone 4 isn’t perfect since I’ve found a few problem...

Better mental performance may only be a nap away

Naps are a popular afternoon hobby, and a new study is only going to make them more appealing. A paper published in Current Biology this week describes a study where participants who were able to take naps long enough for dreams to occur were able to perform a previously learned task...

In multitasking, more than two tasks do not compute

Humans are capable of pursuing multiple goals at once—for example, I am pursuing writing an article and eating a bowl of Froot Loops—but how those activities get divided by the brain is still somewhat of a mystery. A new study, published in Science this week, imaged human brains and watched them...

Doing More With Less: Minimalist Software

[Editor’s Note: This article contains offensive language, so please ignore this post if you’re not comfortable with that.] I’m a pack-rat. I don’t want to be. If anything, I yearn for a clutter-free life. It just seems damn near impossible to attain. Think of all the crap we accumulate in the course of a normal work...

OmniFocus for iPhone finally has reminders, but implementation is awful

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OmniFocus for iPhone[Update] Ken Case comments below, addressing some of the concerns listed here. It looks like a future version of OmniFocus on the Mac will be able...