Teux Deux is a super-simple, sleek and stylish to-do list manager. If you like great design with a tiny pinch of minimalism then this might be for you.
Built entirely for the web you just sign up for a free account and start typing in your to-dos. To add a task you just type and hit return. That’s it.
It’s One Week to a View and there are columns for every day of the week. You can easily scroll into the future to look at what’s coming up, or back into the past to see how well you’ve done your dones.
For GTD fans there is also a SOMEDAY slot at the bottom for all those pesky tasks that need doing but not on a specific date.
To mark a task done you just click it and it gets crossed out, you can also hit an ‘x’ by the side of the task to kill it off. If you can’t get round to a task or your day is looking too busy you can just drag tasks to a later day. You can also drag not so important task down to the ‘Someday’ section or vice-versa.
While I can think of lots of missing features here I really do love the simplicity of TeuxDeux. Personally I need syncing of tasks to various computers and my iPhone (so I’m using many different Google Calendars and Omnifocus to keep all that together) but as an Editor I’m now using TeuxDeux to schedule content releases and I can share the log in details with my team so we’re all looking at the same, clutter-free, diary.
This week I’ve also realised I can use TeuxDeux to schedule my Pomodoro‘s for the day, I just bash out the 16 things I’d like to get done in my 18 hour day and tick them off as I complete each successful Pomodoro.
I think TeuxDeux will be too simple for most people’s to-do list needs (Omnifocus and Taskpaper are the real heros for me) but if you’ve got a specific set of tasks that needs scheduling, it could just be who makes tea this week!, then it’s perfectly adequate, very stylish and a lot of fun to use.
Minimalist styling + simple drag, drop & tick-off = 8/10
