WITH MODERN LIFE refusing to slow down, it’s now almost impossible to manage your life on paper, never mind in your own head. Juggling personal and professional projects, all with competing deadlines demanding you give them priority, requires third-party help, and there are a raft of cloud-based services offering to help everyone from individuals to corporations manage themselves better.
We’ve focused on two services that offer usable free tiers for individuals, and our remit was to see how they fared managing a single person’s work and home lives. In one corner is Todoist, a tool with a narrow focus on helping you manage projects through simple to-do lists and deadline-based tasks,