Todo list in the cloud

As I have said before I have been using “Life Balance” and “My Life Organised” to handle my todo list. Both of these are very good but have the limitation that they are only available on certian platforms. My Todo list must be available both on my PC (for ease of data entry and review) and my PDA (for when I am out and about). I originally used LB on PC and Palm but had to change to MLO when I changed to using my Windows Mobile phone as my PDA as there is not an LB version for WM.

Now I am changing my mobile phone and do not want to be limited in choice by my Todo application. I also use both Windows and Linux on various PCs and finding an application that runs natively on multiple platforms is not that easy. For these reasons I decided to use an on-line Todo service. After looking arround at the various options I decided to go with Toodledo. I have now stopped using MLO and so far Toodledo is doing everything that I need.

I am a little worried that my todo list is now in the cloud and outages could cause me to be unable to see my data. However there are some ways around this. I have brought the Toodledo native application for my iPod Touch, this syncs with the web version and keeps a copy of my data on the iPod. I also export my todo list regularly as XML and back this up on my network. For the future these is discussion of a Gears version of Toodledo, this would be good but we will have to wait and see.

All in all Toodledo should serve my needs until my own GTD application is ready 🙂