I love sharing helpful tips with anyone.  Yes, I am that friend that says, “Oooh – why don’t you try _______!”  Today I really wanted to share my new favorite thing in the world.  First, I should tell you that I have been researching project management tools for wedding planning for a while now.  I signed up for a monthly membership to more than one tool over a month ago, and I’m still hoping to find the time to set them up and research everything they can do and how they work together, etc.  It’s turned out to be more time consuming than I had hoped.

However, I think I may just use my favorite new thing, Toodle Do to help me with project management.  Toodle Do has far surpassed my expectations.  I wanted an alternative to the written calendar and to-do list that my old fashioned self had become so accustomed to.  I wanted all my to-do’s in one place rather than one for business, one for personal, etc.  I also wanted urgent items and items for “someday” all in one place.  I also wanted a way to updates notes for items that needed a bit of a step by step breakdown, or a way to track how many times I tried to contact a vendor and what method I used to contact them.

I wanted a way to tag items as personal or business, and manage them all by day of the week.  I’m telling you, Toodle Do has it all!

Here’s a snap shot of my Toodle Do for today:

One of the beautiful things about Toodle Do is that you can view a task by due-date or priority.  Even better, you can assign items to a folder, then view them by that folder.  Of course, I set a folder up for each of my clients, and I add tasks to the folder as needed.  When I am ready to get down to business, I can look at my tasks for the day, or look at tasks for each client.  Toodle Do automatically lists tasks by order of importance (once you’ve flagged them as Top, High, Medium, Low, etc.)  so, the tasks I need to tackle first are at the top of the list, no matter how I choose to view the list.

$1.99 will buy you the iPhone or iPad app.  Another thing to note that made the app so appealing for me is that there is also a desktop version (shown above).  I prefer to do mass typing on an actual computer rather than iPhone or iPad, so this was a big perk to me.  Now, I can access my to-do list (that syncs automatically, by the way) on my iphone, iPad, or desktop.

If some of you are like me and still love using a paper and pen, you can print your task list too, in several formats.  Each day, I print the task list for that day and add to it with a pen as the day goes on.  At the end of the day, I enter the new task items, or updates to existing tasks/projects on my desktop.

I love this app so much that I may not pursue the project management tools that I subscribed to.  This app cost way less (and is only a one time fee) than I will pay for the two tools that I signed up for.  Apart from being able to send invoices through Toodle Do, I’m not sure I will really miss any of the features the other tools offer.

If I needed to send my clients a list of what I was working on for them, I could simply email them the tasks in their folder.  And don’t you know my husband loves that I can email him his honeydo list!

What to do list apps have you tried and love?  Please share here!