Little bits of fiddling around with my Backpack application in between watching cricket, doing some work and getting my Tesco’s order. What’s new?

I’ve just added simple recurring todos to my little Backpack application. Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly ones now recreate themselves on the appropriate day page.

These are identified by simple prefixes on their titles, like [RW] for a weekly recurring task. If they’re not done on that day, they roll themselves over to the current day along with another annotation indicating when they should have been done.

I’ve added a general notes page which I can e-mail things to. I’ve named it ’ Notes’ with a leading space, so it appears at the top of my page list.

I’ve also added a GTD Action page, which I can e-mail stuff to – mainly todos and notes. These get moved to today’s page whenever I visit my home page.

You might ask why I’m adding this functionality – couldn’t I use some other application? Well, yes, I could, but the beauty of this solution is it’s simple. I don’t need to learn a new GUI, and there aren’t a hundred features to get bogged down in. Plus, if I need something extra or special, I can just write something to do it. And what’s more important is it works exactly how I work.