Four Mobile Apps for List Makers

Making lists is not a new concept. Business professionals have known for a long time that use of checklists is a prime way to stay organized and keep one's priorities in order. What is new, however, is the growing availability of mobile list apps to help you keep your life running smoothly. Take a look at four of the best mobile apps for list makers.

List Master

List Master is a list app designed with the utmost of flexibility and customization in mind. Equally useful for business and personal organization, it allows you to color code your to-do list for quick recall and easy tracking of data. It also helps you stay organized outside the confines of your smartphone by allowing for export of data via PDF files for either emailing or printing. The ability to create templates of your own design makes this list app a great choice for the business professional who needs to manage complex tasks.

Remember the Milk

Remember the Milk is probably the best-known free mobile list app on the market. It syncs effortlessly with other mobile and computer-based apps and software, including Gmail, Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook and Twitter. Remember the Milk lets you decide how you want to organize your business and personal life, whether it is by deadlines, priorities or time estimates. As its name suggests, this list app features push notifications to remind you of virtually anything on your list, sending reminders by your choice of email, instant message or text. Remember the Milk is used by millions of people around the world and is available in 18 languages.

Things

Things is a full-featured list app that provides you with the ability to manage tasks in a timely manner. The Things timeline reminds you of due dates and keeps track of projects. It even allows procrastinators a moment of rest from the relentlessness of the to-do list by letting them move tasks into a "Someday" mode. This list app is fully customizable to let you move immediately relevant tasks to the head of the line even as it fits itself to your personal workflow needs.

To-Do List Pro

To-Do List Pro is an Android list app that lets you juggle multiple to-do lists at the same time. You can also easily move items from one list to another, as well as email your lists to yourself or someone else. Updating is easy, and the list app pushes reminders to you when you need them.

There are scores of list apps available for every platform and device. If you are a born list maker who cannot imagine organizing your life without checklists and reminders, one of the more fully-featured and complex list apps is likely to make you smile with joy. If to-do lists are a painful reminder of how disorganized you are in real life, pick one of the simpler apps to help get your professional life in order.

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