I would like to find, and ultimately use, a free software for managing my daily
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Question
I would like to find, and ultimately use, a free software for managing my daily tasks. It could be a Windows or Web based utility, with the constraint that if it's a Windows application I'd like to easily export/import the list from/to different computers.
What I need is not an application that's packed with features I will not use. I just need to be able to add, edit and delete tasks. I would however like to be able to set the following for each task:
name
description
priority
status
deadline
It would be perfect if the tasks could be grouped into task-groups (i.e. projects) and/or if subtasks could also be defined.
Explanation / Answer
A nice web-app for this is trello
For organising your tasks you can
Create tasks (called Cards in trello)
Create card-lists (groups of tasks)
Create boards (groups of card-lists)
Create organisations (groups of boards)
You can link directly to each card so sub-tasks could be implemented either as a link to the parent card or as checklists added directly to the card that needs to be divided into sub-tasks
As for your requirements for each task trello lets you add the following to cards
Add name
Add pictures
Add descriptions
Add labels (could be used for priority or grouping)
Add checklists
Add deadline
Add attachments from Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive or your filesystem to tasks
Other nice things
It has a mobile app for iOS and Android.
You can invite people either to your organisations or to your boards
You can subscribe to tasks and see when they change
You can vote on tasks
You can comment on tasks
You can make boards public in a read-only fashion where only comments and voting is allowed
You can set it up so that you can create new tasks automatically by emailing your trello account
If you want to export your cards you can simply export them as JSON and do nice stuff with them
You don't have to delete cards once you finished the task but instead you can archive them and reuse them later
It is free and web-based