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SlydooTasks To Do Manager

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Full disclosure: I’m an OmniFocus obsessive (nee user) and I’ve said before that it would take primacord explosive wrapped around my waist to get me to move away from it.

But then, I was pretty addicted to Appigo’s To Do app before finding OmniFocus so I can be moved. More, OmniFocus isn’t cheap. Actually, I think it is ridiculously cheap given how much use I get out of it and how enormously it has helped me but if you buy it and it just doesn’t do it for you, then it’s expensive. There are three OmniFocus versions (iPhone, iPad and Mac) and I spent £80 ($130 US) on all three.

Whereas SlydooTasks is 69p or 99c US. It’s too soon to say that it’s being recommended to me but I am hearing about it and the thing that keeps being said is that it is particularly good at filtering your tasks: letting you see the wood for the trees. 

Before you spend that whole 69p and, more significantly, the time that it will take you to explore a new app and decide if it’s the one for you, take a look at a YouTube video by the developer that walks through it all: http://youtu.be/g7wJJhc5sk0

And if you then fancy it, SlydooTasks is in the iTunes App Store (UK link, US link).

Updated 1Password now available

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A particularly good update for the password-management software is now out on both the makers’ own website and the Mac App Store. This is specifically an update to the Mac version: doubtlessly the Windows one will come soon and the iOS ones have already been updated with these features or the equivalent.

The best of these features being how 1Password handles the times you change your password on a site. I’ve often hit the issue where I’m not sure if I’ve updated the 1Password entry or I’ve created a whole new one. So for my ISP account, for example, I currently have five entries: same username, same website, different password. Every time it’s been that I’ve had the most enormous rush on and couldn’t stop to figure this out, so I’ve ended up saying yes to saving the new password as a new site and given it names like “ISP login FROM JULY 2013”.

Now when you are on a site and you change the password, 1Password says oi, do you want to make a new one or is this an update? One tap, done. 

There are also lots of little nice twiddles in the mini 1Password that lives in your Mac menu bar. I use that more than anything: wherever I am, two key presses and mini 1Password either whacks the username and password in for me on a site or it pops up with a choice of sites or options, whichever I want.

This is release 4.1 of 1Password and it’s free to existing users. We’re special. If you’re not an existing user and you don’t already have anything like 1Password, you need 1Password because there is nothing like it. 

Cost: free to existing users, £34.99 or $49.99 (but check for volume discounts, family packs and special bundles)

More details and download links: http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/12/06/1password-4-1-for-mac-the-little-big-update/