Computers are weird. They can do the most amazing things at times, things you barely knew were needed. But rudimentary tasks can fox them. Handling simple to-do lists is the best example I know. Why is it so hard to keep a handy task list on the go across PCs, Macs, phones and tablets? How difficult can that be?

I've tried lots of different solutions in the past, the last being <a class="zem_slink" title="Remember The Milk" rel="homepage" href="http://www.rememberthemilk.com">Remember the Milk</a>. That didn't last because it was just too fiddly after a while.

Here's a new one (to me anyway) -- <a href="http://producteev.com" target="_blank">Producteev</a>.

<a href="http://producteev.com" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-7493" title="Producteev" src="http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Screen-shot-2011-02-20-at-11.15.39-640x388.png" alt="" width="640" height="388" /></a>

I've been messing with it for a day or so. Since I'm an individual user it's free. I like the look of it... a lot.

Some things to admire...
<ul>
	<li>There's a free iPhone app</li>
	<li>The truly excellent Android to do app <a class="zem_slink" title="Astrid" rel="homepage" href="http://weloveastrid.com/">Astrid</a> syncs directly with it, and does so very well</li>
	<li>It's very simple to understand on a rudimentary basis (though I suspect has a lot of power under the bonnet).</li>
	<li>It syncs with my Google calendar, as does iCal on my Mac. So when I put in a to do it appears in my desktop calendar.</li>
	<li>You can add items to it just by forwarding emails. When you do that it comes back and lets you edit them with a simple email reply too if you want, without opening a browser (just reply to the confirmation message with the word 'tomorrow' for example).</li>
</ul>
All very likeable. Less welcome...
<ul>
	<li>There's no actual client for Mac or Windows though one has been promised for quite some time.
You can fudge it a bit with a browser turned into an app -- <a href="http://blog.producteev.com/create-a-mac-desktop-app-using-fluid" target="_blank">details here.</a></li>
	<li>A lot of the instructions come in the form of videos when a simple, textual description of what's needed would be much faster and simpler.</li>
</ul>
Very promising though -- I'll be trying it out for the next few weeks to see how things go.
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