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I make heavy use of iCal's to-do feature, but I don't like how the to-do's are hidden until their alarms pop-up (unless I'm in iCal, of course). Enter High Priority, a menu extra that makes iCal's to do's much more visible.

High Priority resides in your menu bar, from where you can create (once registered), view, and update the status of your iCal to do's, without ever launching iCal. From the menu, you can see exactly what's due when, with the list sorted by Calendar, Due Date, Priority, Status, or Title.

You can also display the entries using the colors from your iCal calendars, hide completed to do's a certain number of days after they're done (I use zero days to make them hide immediately), limit the number of to do's that are shown (based on due date), and change a to do's status by holding down a definable modifier. You can even define a global shortcut key to activate the High Priority menu extra without touching the mouse.

It's not free, but at $6.00 for two Macs, the price is quite fair for the ability to see and manage my iCal to do items from anywhere.
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High Priority - Easy management of iCal to do items
Authored by: JaxMyers on Mar 15, '06 08:27:19AM

There's a pretty good widget that does this as well...
http://www.bluehenley.com/products/dobedo/index.php?v=230&ref=widget

and it's free...



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High Priority - Easy management of iCal to do items
Authored by: moseral on Mar 15, '06 08:38:45AM

I like DoBeDo, except that it does not let you resize the window. That's frustrating to me, because I can't see the entire description of the todo, and I have to deal with more than one page...otherwise, great product.



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High Priority's major bug
Authored by: Ton Voon on Mar 15, '06 03:42:56PM

I've also used CheckOff for task management which has helped me enormously, but didn't integrate with iCal (and hence not sync with my phone). I purchased High Priority because it had that killer feature. However, High Priority (and DoBeDo - just tested) has got a major bug:

- open iCal
- add a new task in High Priority
- add a calendar entry in the same calendar in iCal
- quit iCal
- the todo entry will disappear off High Priority

Admittedly, this is more of a problem for iCal (not realising that another app has updated a task), but it boils down to the fact that it looks like you have saved a task, but it will disappear if you do the "wrong thing". Not a good user experience.

To Aram Kudurshian's (author of High Priority) credit, he has replied to my emails, but I think he is lost on how to fix this.

Something to watch out for before using this software.



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Timelog has this capability, too
Authored by: ManxStef on Mar 16, '06 03:36:50PM

I use Timelog:
http://shareware.mediaatelier.com/

Which has a very similar feature as far as I can make out. It's not as cheap -- think it's around £12GBP/$21USD -- but has one major thing to recommend: the time logging capabilities are great, integrating with iCal (so you can publish your & Address book. The invoicing's not too bad, though HTML + CSS for templating's not really the best choice for printing layout, but it's a decent app all-in. It does suffer a bit when you make changes directly in the Address Book or iCal, but I don't think they offer notification hooks to tell programmers when anything changes so there's not much you can do about it (other than continuously poll, which isn't at all efficient).

To make its menu item appear go to Preferences, Timer tab, Appearance - Show timer menu in all applications.



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Timelog has this capability, too
Authored by: ManxStef on Mar 16, '06 03:38:29PM

That should say (so you can publish your timesheets to .Mac or a webdav server)



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