# Help me find a good task app for Windows 8

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-good-task-app-for-windows-8/677428>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 29, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-good-task-app-for-windows-8/677428 "2013-12-29T19:45:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-good-task-app-for-windows-8/677428/1 "2013-12-29T19:45:57Z")

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So, I’m going crazy trying to find an app that’s going to work for me. I don’t think I’m looking for anything special - the problem seems to be I want something too simple.

I am a real estate agent, and I need something I can run every morning, that simply lists what I need to do. I’d like to be able to print it out every morning - having the paper helps me stay organized, and I get a sense of progress from crossing things out 🙂

Here’s the problem I keep running into - I don’t need a task tracker. So, in Outlook for example, if I enter a task, it stays in my task list until I delete it, even if it’s not due yet. So if I have to make a call on Wednesday, I enter it on Monday, and it stays there until Wednesday. That makes me feel overwhelmed and behind, even though it’s not due yet. I don’t need something that keeps track of multiple-step tasks, no color coding, nothing to sort into projects, just a to do list that I can print every morning.

Any thoughts?

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**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-good-task-app-for-windows-8/677428/2 "2013-12-29T23:07:48Z")

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I sometimes use [Todoist](https://en.todoist.com/). It’s simple to use, with a nice clean layout. The default list it shows is today’s tasks plus overdue tasks. You can do all the colour coding and stuff as well, but I don’t bother with all that.