Organized Productivity Widget

Recently I wrote about tips to increase your productivity by applying some “Getting Things Done” strategies and I suggested To Do for managing your tasks from inside OS X’s Dashboard.
Today I found another tools that might do the trick even better.

Organized from islayer combines a note taking application, a calendar, and a To Do list manager within a single Dashboard widget.

It uses iCal’s database for storage, thus a task entered from Organized is available in iCal an vice versa. It also supports multiple calendars, so you can choose to list only your private or your professional appointments, or appointments from all calendars aggregated together.

It is labeled as version 1.0 — so it’s not a beta — but still lacks some essential features:
For example the calendar can only be viewed but not edited from within the widget (although you can easily do this via an iCal-link to that event).
It’s clearly a benefit over To Do, that you not only see your tasks, but also appointments, or notes. However, I still prefer To Do’s clean and uncluttered interface that can even handle huge task lists. Organized fails at this point, as long entries aren’t wrapped into multiple lines and the window can’t be resized horizontally.

I hope they fix that in an upcoming release. Leopard is required, by the way.

PS: The guys over at islayer also crafted the iStat series for monitoring your system’s load, memory usage, temperature, and other nonformation about your computer. Beautiful tools, but I find them unnecessary, as my MacBook has a unmistakable acoustic system load indicator… :-/

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