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Subject:Re: Your To-Do List From:Uwe Tallmeister <uwe -at- raintreeinc -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:22:15 +0200
I'm using Rainlendar for that - http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php
It's available for both Windows and Linux. Also, you can keep it on a
USB memory stick, so you can take the events and tasks wherever you go.
As for your requirements:
> 1. Relates the list to a daily calendar. Ideally, I'd like to have
this calendar start up automatically, so as soon as I log in, it opens
and displays the current day's list.
It is a calendar application, with support for events and a to-do list.
Automatic startup is the default (I think).
> 2. Carries forward all tasks from the previous day that I haven't
marked as complete.
Yes, it even has separate statuses available for task progress.
> 3. Keeps a historic record of each day's tasks, so I can see what I
was doing a year and a day ago if I want.
Event and task histories are available.
> 4. Enables me to print out the to-do lists for a range of days (or
months).
The homepage claims it is able to print the tasks as a separate list or
as a month view. I haven't tried that myself.
> 5. In the best of all possible worlds, enables me to link to my
address book, the emails I've received and sent for a particular day,
and notes (for a day, a task, whatever).
That it can't do (the Pro version supposedly supports Outlook in some
ways, but as I have never used Outlook in my life, I can't comment on that).
I've been using it mostly for two reasons - a) it's free, b) it
originated in Finland, the land of Linux :)
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