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SimpleTask Manages and Syncs Your Tasks Between Your Mac and iPhone [Downloads]
Posted on November 18, 2010
Listiki Crowdsources Lists for Easy Creation, Sharing, and Ranking [Lists]
Posted on July 28, 2010
Listiki is a crowdsourced list creation service. You create lists and others participate in adding to and ranking the contents of your lists. Best Windows applications, vampire movies, restaurants in Reno, worst CG movie—anything you can rank is fair game. More »
Best Outlining Tool: Microsoft OneNote [Hive Five Followup]
Posted on December 8, 2009
Last week we asked you to share your favorite outlining tool and then we rounded up the top five nominations for a vote. Now we’re back to share the results.
Leading the pack was Microsoft OneNote with 30% of the vote. Although not a dedicated outlining application, its outlining functionality combined with ease of use and ease of capture made it a strong contender. Following OneNote was FreeMind (22%) a mind-mapping application many readers have repurposed for use as an outlining and organization tool. Rounding out the top three was Microsoft Word with 13%—not the most sophisticated outliner in the world, but it's on millions of computers and it gets the job done.
For more information on the winner and the runners up, check out the full Hive Five. Have a topic you’d love to see covered in the Hive Five? Fire off an email to tips@lifehacker.com with “Hive Five” in the subject line.
GroceryWiz Is a Full-Featured, Grocery-List-Making Webapp [Groceries]
Posted on December 2, 2009
It’s easy to forget things grocery shopping once you’re bumping elbows with the masses. GroceryWiz is an easy to use, fully customizable webapp that keeps your weekly grocery needs in check.
(Click the image above for a closer look.)
GroceryWiz is a quick and easy tool for adding grocery items to a virtual and printable list to make your trips to the grocery store easier and more productive. It keeps track of your weekly purchases and saves your lists from week to week to help identify frequent purchases you may have left off before you hit the print button. You can add notes for each ingredient, in case you need a reminder as to why you need it—or what dish it's destined for. The whole thing prints out in an easy to read list that's divided by category to ensure you don't leave something behind, before leaving a certain section of the store.
Sign up is free, and the site also offers freebie offers and coupons, though those features require a bit more of your time than a few off the cuff edits to stay on top of your daily or weekly shopping list. If this seems a little over the top for your needs, you can always try using a basic template to streamline your own handwritten lists, or try shopping every two weeks to save money and make things a little more routine.
Use Remember the Milk to Plan Groceries and Meals [Groceries]
Posted on August 11, 2009
Web-based task manager Remember the Milk stands out for its ubiquity, and a few of its users have suggested novel ways to use its tags, priorities, and separate lists as a multi-person household…
Wridea Is an Online Organizer for Your Ideas [Ideas]
Posted on May 20, 2009
If you’ve ever wanted a one-stop shop for saving, organizing, and sharing your ideas, web application Wridea might be just what you are looking for.
Once you've signed up and created a free account, you can add new ideas, categorize them, and share them with your friends using the very simple web interface—in fact, that's the drawback of using this tool instead of expanding your brain with Evernote or using OneNote as a powerful note-taking application—it doesn't have enough features for a power user used to tagging and sorting their thoughts.
On the other hand, it does have the ability to share ideas and feedback with your friends, an interesting developer API for third-party add-ons, and a unique "Idea Rain" visualization that drops your ideas into the screen—so it could be worth a look for anybody looking for a completely web-based solution to storing and sharing ideas.
For more ways to manage your great ideas, check out our five best mind mapping tools, or take a look at some of your best ideas from 2008.
Wridea [via Online Tech Tips]
FreelanceSwitch’s “Monster List” of Freelance Job Sites [Jobs]
Posted on April 15, 2009
Starting out as a freelancer can be an exhilarating experience, but that part ends right about when you realize you don’t know where to turn next to find your gig. The FreelanceSwitch blog updates its Monster List of freelance job site to more than 150 sites of work offers and contract bidding, including a few non-English options. The best work you’ll get as a freelancer usually comes from folks and firms you already know or can network with, but for filling in the monetary gaps, this list isn’t a bad place to start. Need advice on how to approach your pricing? Try Anil Dash’s two-step guide.