One Idea A Day

WARNING: This one-idea-a-day series are typically 10-minute writeouts of my 40-min whim while I'm running on treadmill. They serve the purpose of givign me the joy of day dreaming and writing something every day. The ideas here will have very high probability of being total crap. Read at your own peril.

As an attempt to force myself to think, write and work out everyday, I decided to try this one-idea-a-day thing, in short, to brainstorm ideas while running on treadmill and then pour my thoughts on a blog post. This is also inspired by 365Beebee (http://beebeeye.blog.sohu.com/).

It goes like:

Think & Work out -- 30 minutes on treadmill, 10 minutes in shower,

Write -- 10 minutes to write a blog post

Maybe all the ideas come up with this way are crap, but as Seth Godin nicely put, "Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them". I gotta come up with enough number of bad ideas first.

This think-on-treadmill thing used to work pretty well for me -- I ended up writing something each day for two months. Let's see how long I could keep this up.

So here goes the very first one:

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Google Tasks Review Tool Mobile

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I've finally read several pages of David Allen's Get Things Done, and came to realize the importance of regularly reviewing and processing to-do lists. So I think I need a mobile version of Google Tasks (my todo list of choice) that I could process my to-do list whenever I got a few spare minutes. Basic features include sync, display and edit tasks.

Unique Features:

- dead simple to re-order tasks (use order as priority)

- dead simple to process tasks (triage, mark done)

- dead simple to see next actions

- undo (since we make things so easy, it would be easy to make mistakes, too)

Other Features:

- Sync with Google Tasks

- voice recognition to enter new tasks