Life Balance
p. At the beginning of this month, “I linked”:http://www.rousette.org.uk/mt-static/blog/archives/000451.html to an article probing what [“people have in their Docks”:http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/09/30/dock.html]. The comments revealed a plethora of popular applications, but also another user (Nathan Ladd) of one of my new favourite applications: [“Life Balance”:http://www.llamagraphics.com/]. At the time, I was just trying it out, but I’ve since taken the plunge and registered.
p. I first heard about Life Balance via the “Mailsmith”:http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/index.shtml mailing list, and—like a pig after truffles—I had to check it out. On the surface, Life Balance looks like a common or garden to-do list/project manager, and I have other applications for that. “iCal”:http://www.apple.com/ical/ has a very basic implementation of to-do items (recently improved with version 1.5.1), but I have also really enjoyed using “tasks”:http://alexking.org/index.php?content=software/tasks/content.php which is extremely well-produced, and has the advantage of being web-based, so that you can depress yourself with the length of your to-do list wherever you might be. In fact, I still use tasks, but Life Balance has a slightly different focus.
