Task (to-do) List on your Desktop?

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No I'm Spartacus

Hi everyone,

I'm not even sure such a program exists, but does anyone know of a
task list (ie to-do list) program that displays on your WIndows
dekstop? Like an Active Desktop background. Preferably just sitting on
top of your existing wallpaper.
 
No said:
I'm not even sure such a program exists, but does anyone know of a
task list (ie to-do list) program that displays on your WIndows
dekstop?

Scrap Book
http://home.pacbell.net/nitzsche/scrapbook.html
Scrap Book is a free-form database program that manages text lists of
all kinds. The unstructured nature of the program makes it easy to type
first and organize later. It can be used as a phone book, URL outliner,
file launcher, to-do list, or a multiple page clipboard. Scrap Book
databases are organized into cards, which are like pages in a book.
Each page contains text data, which can be anything you can type.

Notebook
http://notebook.wjduquette.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Notebook is a personal notebook application. It's for storing notes,
to-do lists, daily logs, things you want to remember, neat ideas you
might do something with some day, cute things your children said, bad
jokes--all the kinds of things you would write down now if only you had
a place to put them where you'd remember to look for them.
But Notebook is more than that. It's almost like a personal website.
Whenever you enter notes into your Notebook, you effortlessly create
hyperlinks to them, just like in a Web Page. The links allow you to
find things again; and if they fail you there's a "search" box that
will find every page containing the information you desire and an
"Index" page that lists all the pages you create
If you've ever used a Wiki on the Web, Notebook is much like a personal
Wiki. But it goes beyond that, because it's programmable. You can embed
"Magic Buttons" in any page that do almost anything you can think of.
And you can put "Embedded Macros" in any page to automatically include
text into your pages.
 
No said:
Hi everyone,

I'm not even sure such a program exists, but does anyone know of a
task list (ie to-do list) program that displays on your WIndows
dekstop? Like an Active Desktop background. Preferably just sitting on
top of your existing wallpaper.
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Regards,

Spartacus

I use a program called hottnotes
http://www.hottnotes.com/
 

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the replies, especially to you jmatt! Wow, that's quite a
few I have to go and check out. The main thing for me is that the
program should be able to display the list (and allow you to interact
with it), on the windows background (using Active Desktop presumably).
I had images in my head of the Outlook (which I use at work) task
list, merged into the windows desktop, so when I finished a task, I
could just click on the task on the background and have a line put
through it (like Outlook does when you click on the checkbox next to a
task) - which would make it easy to see what tasks I have and have not
done. Anyway, I'll just download each one and see if any of them can
do this.
 
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