Things I would really like to work together to help me stay super organized this year:
- iCal
- Things
- Schoolhouse
In my ideal world — which is currently dominated by being the perfect student — these three programs would work together gorgeously in helping me stay organized and on top of the ball.
I use Schoolhouse for all of my school-related functions: taking notes, keeping track of assignments, and (hopefully) keeping track of my grades. In a perfect world, every time I created an assignment in Schoolhouse, it would automatically create a to-do in things. This being automatic is a high priority — entering it in once is hard enough for me. However, not only will an assignment create a to-do, in my imaginary world the type of assignment would determine whether or not the to-do becomes a project in its own right, and creating tasks in Schoolhouse would create to-dos that are automatically assigned to the project.
In the reverse, when I mark a linked to-do as completed in Things, it would thus go and mark it as complete in Schoolhouse; if I mark an assignment complete in Schoolhouse, Things should mark the to-do completed.
For most people, this may seem like enough, that my two favorite programs are talking together and working perfectly. However, I heart iCal and the way I can look at my whole week at a time, seeing where I have to be and what I have to do.
So, in my absolutely perfect world, Things communicates with iCal, and to-dos that I have given a completion date should appear on my calendar, and if I mark it completed there, Things marks it completed, and vice versa.
Sigh.
I wish software developers followed my whim; it would make me extremely happy. I know the Things-to-iCal communication is in the works, but I sincerely wish there was a Schoolhouse-Things communication in the works. It would make this semester’s organization nearly perfect, and my failure would be without excuses.
– “I Light My Own Fires Now,” The Shade of Poison Trees: Dashboard Confessional
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