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No perfect to-do, but maybe good-enough will be good enough

I am NOT satisfied with this system, but maybe it will allow me to keep functioning and GTD'ing until WebIS gets their toodledo sync done... (Of course, that still leaves the issue of offline access open) Anyway, here's my tho'ts: Keep with RTM. I don't like having a new folder for each project (I wouldn't mind if it could be created on the fly), but if I just do new folders for "major" projects (whatever that means) then that is do-able. What that means is I will have a few projects that have tags on my phone. The rest will look like one-off tasks even though they are part of a project, but I guess I can live with that. Maybe I'll add a "+misc" project name (in addition to their "real" project name) or something so they can be differentiated on my phone. Then I will have a few smart searches saved for the rest of my tags that I need (na, thisweek, context, etc.). Actually, I will probably use saved searches for the projects a

Oh, for a to-do-list that would do it all...

After a dismally unproductive summer I've decided it's time to Get Things Done again. This time I'd really like to be able to do it technologically rather than plain-paper... My current hardware is a Windows 7 notebook and a Tilt 2 (Windows Mobile 6.5) phone. I'm doing my best to do everything "in the cloud" as I often don't take my computer to the office and want to have an equivalent office there without hassling with sync. Via gmail, google docs, google calendar, google sync, etc. I've got just about everything working as I like it -- including sync'ing to my phone. The missing piece is my to-do list. And this is not because nothing works, but because I'm fussy and have pretty specific requirements for what I'm looking for. It must be based "in the cloud" -- I want to sit down at another computer, log on, and see just what I see at home. It must have off-line access (my ISP is notorious for outages at the most inconvenient