High Priority - Easy management of iCal to do items

Mar 15, '06 07:48:00AM

Contributed by: robg

High Priority imageThe macosxhints Rating:
9 of 10
[Score: 9 out of 10]

[Note: Due to some other projects last week, I didn't get to the Pick of the Week, so today, you get two. This one is this week's Pick; below it is last week's Pick.]

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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