the world is your acorn

Maybe these are already out there somewhere, but here are two web applications that would greatly reduce stress and chaos in my life:

1. A todo list that has all the great features of voo2do and Remember the Milk and other todo lists already existing, including tagging, reminders, priority, deadlines and postponing, time estimates, status, sharing, etc. But I’d like the todo list to also include a calendar to help you plan out how you’d get this stuff done. Maybe a drag and drop type of thing where you can drag your todo item to a spot on the calendar, and an “appointment” would be created there to do that item. You could resize it so that, for example, if you estimated the task would take an hour, but you only want to work on it for half and hour, your list would be updated to reflect the fact that you plan to work on the task for 30 minutes tomorrow, but the rest of the time is still unscheduled. or something like that. Also it’d be nice to have subtasks, so that you could have a larger project on your todo list but also break it down into smaller bits.

2. A del.icio.us type place for cataloguing just about anything. Books, journal articles, sets of notes, ideas, whatever. I need something like this to organize my school life. I want to be able to know where to find both the electronic and hard copies of journal articles that I’ve read. I want to be able to search according to keywords or tags, according to author or the class I read it for. The important thing is for it to be fast. I know I could probably use other existing sites like del.icio.us or software like Endnote to do this, but when I’m cataloguing a bunch of stuff every day, I want a quick and easy interface. Is it asking too much?

3. I know I said two, and this doesn’t even necessarily have to be a web app, but I’d like something like Microsoft’s OneNote for the Mac or the web. A note-taking application that lets you easily organize your pages and write wherever you please rather than in that left-to-right line by line word processor way.