Time Management

I've been looking for a way to track of projects at work and home. Traditional paper todo lists get too long and then it gets easy to miss things or the long list itself just appears overwhelming. Additionally, when I become stressed its tough to figure out the best thing for me to be working on "right now" when so many tasks need done and I end up switching back and forth between multiple tasks without accomplishing much.

I started reading this book:

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Its an interesting book about lists and organization but I've put off finishing it for about 3-4 months now. It is as expected very slow and dull and requires a fair amount of concentration to figure out how it applies to me and what I have going on.

I'm going to try out a software program called life balance. It sounds what I've been looking for. It has a windows and palm OS version which sync up. Additionally, it syncs with the PalmOS calendar so it should indirectly sync with MS outlook. It's description suggests it should give me what I was asking for a todo list which shows what I should be doing "right now". You create projects and their associated tasks. If tasks must be done in order then it only shows you the tasks which you need to work on first. Additionally, it has the concept of places. Meaning you can have todo lists which only apply to Home, work, work trips, grocery store, vacations, shopping, church etc. Then you change the view of the todo list to match where you are. I'm going to play with the free trial and then write a review of it here.