How IdeasToDone
Helps You
Improve Your Life

Get Organized. Plan Ahead. Increase Control. Optimize Your Effectiveness.
Save Time. Reduce Stress. Achieve Your Goals.

Get Organized

Move from chaos to order in your personal and business life

You can set up related tasks into Inboxes or Projects by area of your life or things you want to focus on.

Smart Lists show you what you’re looking for with a simple tap or two.

Use task organizers to provide you with what you need when you need it.

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LOCATE WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR FAST

You can easily find things fast, and then start working on them.

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DON'T WASTE TIME

Reduce or eliminate time spent searching, trying to remember, double or triple handling the same thing

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STOP FORGETTING THINGS

Get things off your mind and into IdeasToDone so you won’t forget them.

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IMPROVES YOUR FOCUS & EFFICIENCY

Group similar items and work on them together so you can get things done more efficiently.

Get organized and stay organized with IdeasToDone. Group your tasks into Inboxes and Projects for each area of your life.

Plan Ahead

Get what you want out of life — by design

In IdeasToDone, you can create as many plans and projects as you need.

Start with a big idea. Expand on it again and again until you have a great strategy and the tasks laid out to execute it.

Then get to work on it until it’s done!

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CREATE THE FUTURE YOU WANT

Hopes & dreams are not a strategy. Goals are achieved with planning followed by doing.

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PREPARATION LEADS TO SUCCESS

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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BE MORE PROACTIVE, LESS REACTIVE

Get out of react mode, and get ahead of the game. Planning is key to being proactive.

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PUTS YOU IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT

Decide on your goals, create the plan you need to achieve them, start working on them, and always keep your goals top of mind.

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BUILDS CONTINUED SUCCESS & RESULTS

Great planning breeds success and consistently good results. Especially over the long term.

Increase Control

Be more causative, and less at effect

Use projects to set up your goals and plans.

Prioritize your tasks by importance, urgency, impact, and effort.

Schedule your high-priority tasks that are aligned with your goals.

Start getting things done.

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GET WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE

Take charge of your life! Decide what you want, plan it out, and get it done!

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PRIORITIZE WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU

It’s your life. Get what you want out of it! Decide what your priorities are, and when you want to work on them.

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PRIORITIZE YOUR PRIORITIES

Regularly spend time working on your goals, strategies, plans, and higher priorities. Random things that come up are not necessarily priorities. Put them down in an Inbox to handle later. Learn to say no.

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USE ORGANIZERS FOR TASK BATCHING

Tag & group similar tasks and work on them in a batch. Tags, Task Types, Contexts, and List Groups can be very helpful for task batching. Work on these tasks using a Smart List.

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USE TIME BLOCKING TO REDUCE DISTRACTIONS

Tag & group similar tasks and work on them in a batch. You be more efficient and the all the tasks in the batch done faster and better.

You can set a number of settings for a task such as date & time, priorities, organizers and more. This image shows some of the priority settings as well as several settings for Task Organizers on an iPhone.

Optimize Effectiveness

Do the right things at the right time and right place

Use goals and plans to set your roadmap and compass for what you want to accomplish.

Then decide what tasks are important and urgent, what the impact will be, and how much effort is required.

Schedule your commitments and any tasks that are time critical.

Use Smart Lists and the Task Calendar as you work through your day and week.

Smart Lists are designed to help you efficiently review, manage, and work through your tasks. This image shows a Smart List of tasks with the highest importance and highest urgency.

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FREQUENT REVIEWS DRIVE PRODUCTIVITY

Regularly review your projects and tasks. This will ensure you are following a roadmap to successfully achieving your goals.

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PRIORITIZE YOUR TASKS

Get the most out of the time you’re spending. Use priorities such as impact and effort to get the most out of your time.

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USE TASK MANAGEMENT TO DRIVE EFFICIENCY

Take the time to assign dates, priorities, and organizers to your tasks. Then use Smart Lists to focus on those tasks & complete them.

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GET THINGS DONE

Goals are great, planning is critical, and prioritizing is important. But getting things done is key to effectiveness.

Save Time

Be prepared and effective, and focus on getting things done

Use projects to plan what you’d like to accomplish this week, this month, this year, and during your life.

You’ll be more prepared and it will help you decide how you want to spend your time.

Take advantage of task organizers to group tasks together to improve efficiency.

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MAKE BETTER USE OF YOUR TIME

Work on the tough stuff when you are at peak energy for the day. Work on the easy stuff when you’re chillin’.

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REVIEW IN ADVANCE

Investing in looking ahead and managing your upcoming workload will save you time during the week.

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USE MULTI-EDIT TO MANAGE MULTIPLE TASKS

With Multi-Edit, you can update dates, priorities, and organizers for several selected tasks at the same time – a big time saver!

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WORK ON SIMILAR TASKS IN A BATCH

Use priorities and task organizers to group related tasks together to improve your efficiency with task batching.

Smart Lists are designed to help you efficiently review, manage, and work through your tasks. This image shows a Smart List of tasks with a Context of iMac, so you can batch tasks that require your iMac and work on those together.

Be Calm & Confident

Get up each day knowing what needs to get done

Spend time examining each area of your life. Decide what you want to accomplish next week, next month, next year, and in 5 years. What are your goals?

Review & update the plans you’ve laid out to keep you on track.

Set your priorities and a schedule that works for you.

Put your attention on following your plan, one step at a time.