Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...

I recently wrote about my search for a task manager in “AppBITS: Sorted Seems Moribund” (25 June 2025), outlining my desire for a task manager that would help me plan my day by combining tasks with ...

To-do lists keep track of tasks we have to do, but they hardly ever provide actual motivation. A small tweak to your productivity method can solve that problem pretty quickly. All you need to do is ...

The Reminders app is equipped with several built-in lists where I spend most of my time on any given day. ‘Today’ and ‘Scheduled’ are my typical go-tos, as I imagine they are for most users. But there ...

If you keep a to-do list, how do you track the stuff you get done that isn’t on the list? I suspect nearly all of us have done the thing where you add a recently completed task to your to-do list just ...

For tracking to-do activities, from project milestones to simple office errands, a task list manager like Google Tasks is helpful. Tasks lets you set to-do activities (tasks) and be reminded about ...

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Today Cultured Code launched the long-anticipated next version of its task management app, Things, for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Things has been one of the go-to task managers on Apple platforms since ...

We’ve all fallen into the trap of trying to do too much at once – a bad habit we like to call “multitasking.” We sit at our desks with the intention of getting on with an important project but decide ...

The key to hassle-free self-help and self-organization is to avoid organization becoming another task. You have enough of those. A system with new folders, categories, and procedures? Sounds great.