Much to-do

[Gregory Marton <gremio@>]

I write this as I sit in Michael Littman's talk, not because I don't want 
to listen, actually, I really do.  When I was a young and naive undergrad, 
I thought it would be really cool to solve crossword puzzles using google, 
and actually tried it in our equivalent of 6.034, only to find that the 
AAAI outstanding paper award that year had gone to Littman, et al.'s 
system, Proverb.  Disappointing and inspiring all at once.

So I'm writing it here because Noah reminded me that I promised to write 
this week's message, which pointed out that my to-do list didn't.  So on 
the topic of shaving yaks, what do you all use for your to-do lists?  I 
want something that
  * lets me organize items hierarchically,
  * keeps records on my machine locally so I can work off net and syncs so
    I can work off laptop
  * helps me track my time on each task and supertask
  * can remind by email or IM (which often equals phone for me),
  * that can deal with recurring events, and events where I want to do so
    much of them each day.

Right now I'm using emacs.  It does the first two.  I used to use 
voo2do.com, but then it went down for most of a week and I was sad.  I hear 
about google calendar -- is it the answer to all my gripes?  Is it the 
superuser of all evil?

I want a to-do list that somehow helps me keep my promise to write this 
email while still letting me listen to the ... oh yeah.  that.
How about let's take this up again at today's...

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