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To-do lists are hard, we all struggle with them. Sometimes they seem to take over our lives. We can't let that happen!

Below are the top five signs you need to change your to-do list and how to make that happen.

1. A disheveled appearance that's no longer hipster. Messy hair and '80s clothes work for residents of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. But looking a hot mess 24/7 and outside of New York City often indicates a lack of personal care. Not looking your best and paying inadequate attention to personal appearance is a faux pas in France. Nobody would be caught dead in sweatpants or Crocs over there! If you're constantly throwing on scrubs and not working in the medical field, you may need to rearrange your to-do list. Remove things, for instance, that don't need to be there. You'll be happier and more likely to score a hot date, which is a win-win in our opinion. ;)
2. Inability to carry on coherent conversations. Have you become a space cadet? Earth to Jane/John! Do you sometimes get emails thrown back at you due to not thoroughly reading them and failing to respond to all questions and concerns? You probably need to take a short break, so that your focus becomes sharper. Try the Pomodoro Technique if you haven't already.
3. Desks and desktops that are utterly out of control. Similar to personal appearance, our workspaces should be cared for and attended. Taking moments to organize your files each day, and clearing your desk - even once a week if you don't have time everyday - will have huge impacts on time saved in the long run. Don't make your life harder. Keep your workspaces clean and orderly. You'll be better at getting your work done, we guarantee. 
4. People avoiding your increasingly curmudgeony ways. If you've morphed into a cranky, angry person nobody wants to be around and all your co-workers dodge you in the hallways - now is the time to get serious about work-life balance. Here's a great guest post on strategies for work-life balance. Our relationship to work affects our personal relationships. Americans especially need to be more mindful of when to put more energy on the human side and less on the money making side.
5. Complete exhaustion and on the verge of system meltdown. OK, you're way overdue for that work-life balance. Follow user Tony Morgan and delegate whenever possible. Go back to basics and priorities. We can't always get everything done that we want to - but we can work intelligently to get things done that we need to. Learn about the Covey Method for prioritization, from student user Aaron Couch. Have an amazing method of your own? We want to hear it in the comments!

At Producteev, we believe you can master your to-do list. Often, it's just a matter of re-figuring things out. Learn more about conquering your to-dos, including the famous Getting Things Done framework, from business analyst Karl Burkum.

Yes, we're live with a brand new home page, and we think it rocks, check it out here : www.producteev.com.

A few weeks ago we decided to redesign the Producteev home page. We liked the previous version, but we wanted to see if we could do better. Specifically we wanted to provide a better presentation of Producteev and its unique features. We were interested in less copy, more visuals, and a step by step presentation.
 

Down the road, we've noticed that visitors were mainly looking for three things: what we do, what makes us special, and how much the product costs. Based on feedback we focused on building a layout that would give all this information at a glance.
 
We came up with a fancy slideshow that first describes Producteev as an easy-to-use and cross platform task management application. Then we emphasized the fact that Producteev was great either if you use it as an individual or as part of a team. Finally, we highlighted the “mail-to-task” feature because we believe that one of our main goal is to get your tasks out of your e-mail inbox.
 
We also brought the sign up form right to the home page. We did it because we firmly believe that the best way to discover the added value of Producteev in your daily projects is to experience it by yourself instead of reading features descriptions here and there.
 
2012 has been a very exciting year so far. Lots of companies signed up for PRO accounts. We decided to give them some room on this new home page. We’re happy to introduce you to a few of them like Apple, Financial Times, Logitech, and lot of Small Businesses who make us proud to develop a better product for them, day after day. We’re looking forward to create a customer section on the website so we can present different successful use cases of Producteev in various industries.
 
We hope that this new home page will help building a wider and stronger Producteev community.
 
For reference, here was the previous design:

The new one:

Hope you enjoy it!

The Producteev User Experience team.

After the long wait (thank you for your patience), the subtasks feature has been released in the latest Android update. Download it here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.producteev.android.alpha22.

Right from the task details screen, you will be able to see the subtasks associated to it. If you click on the subtasks list, you will access the edit screen where you can add, delete (long click), check on/off and change the title (simple click) of a subtask.

This is pretty much following the same flow as the web app and the other native apps. The drag and drop re-ordering will come soon.

**This major feature release requires a complete upgrade of your local producteev database. If you decide to update the app, you will be logged out and on your next login, a complete fresh sync will occur for a few moment. All data -all tasks, workspaces, labels, notes- not synced with the web app will be lost, so make sure you do a full sync before the update.**

Please let us know if you have any comments or questions. The next features will be the social logins (google and facebook sign on) and the Android native push notifications.

Looking forward to your feedback.

The Producteev Android Team.

[Thanks A LOT to Lee Gooding for providing that excellent tutorial on our Support Center, let's give him the stage!]

This isn't so much an idea, as a way to import tasks from Toodledo. I have about 100 tasks in my Toodledo account and I wanted to move them over to Producteev. It took me about 15 minutes.

I have tested this with the Android version of Astrid.

Step 1:

Download and install TaskUnifier (http://www.taskunifier.com/)

Step 2:

Add the Toodledo sync plugin, and the Google Tasks publish plugin available for FREE for TaskUnifier.

Step 3: 

Sync TaskUnifier with your Toodledo account

Step 4:

Publish your newly synced tasks to your Google Tasks (using the TaskUnifier publish plugin)

Step 5:

Install Astrid for your mobile device (Android). Setup syncing with Astrid.com and Google Tasks. DO NOT SETUP PRODUCTEEV YET.

Step 6 (this may not be necessary): 

Once your Google tasks have been synced to Astrid, you can go ahead and remove the connection to Google. 

Sync with Astrid. Login to the web version Astrid and you should see all your Toodledo tasks now in Astrid.

Step 7: 

Add your Producteev account to the Astrid mobile app. 

NOTE: If you already had a producteev link then you must remove the connection to reset sync data, otherwise this will not work.

Once you have added your login info, it will sync automatically. 

Step 8: 

Check your Producteev account. All your Toodledo tasks should now be imported!

I really hope this helps some of you!

Created by: Carolyn

The sync feature runs as a Background Task so you don't have to wait until sync is finished before leaving the app

This new sync makes it faster to synchronize with other Producteev platforms.

Our new QuickFilters selector is simple!  Just swipe up to open and you will save time.  You can still long press the button too.

In the Task LIst, you can set a reoccurring task as done and it will now display it's next due date. 

We also fixed a few things:

• Saved Quickfilter tab (Starred, Late, Today) displays the correct filtered view after launch.

• Editing a Label's name no longer creates a new one in some cases.

• Sync error when creating a label with the same name as another.

• Removing all the labels from a task is now possible

Go update it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/producteev/id306289289?mt=8

^Carolyn

From left to right:  Aric, Jerome, Julien and Ismael

^Carolyn

You've been waiting for it, it's here!

We've just updated the Mac app with a couple of new things and fixes :

- Subtasks!

Yes you can now create, sync, edit, delete and rearrange subtasks from the Mac App 

- New Design: faster, simpler, whiter, better

- Improved Collaboration filters: It now behaves like the web app. Click on your avatar top left to change the view

- A bunch of bugs are now fixed, like crash at logins for some users, and little improvements here and there.

Update it here : http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/producteev/id450283360?mt=12

If you like it, please rate us 5 stars, it does help a lot!

Enjoy!

Created by Carolyn

Co-Founder and Creative Director at Purple Interactive – Digital-Creative Agency.

"Two years ago me and two partners opened Purple Interactive, a leading digital-creative agency that manages the digital presence for some of the biggest brands in Israel. Malls, drug companies, car rental agencies, magazines, fashion brands and more. Recently we also started working with clients in the States and Europe.

Our specialty is the social arena and mainly Facebook, we build fan pages and promotional applications, manage all the content in the page and create campaigns that integrates offline and online.

We started out as three people with two clients, on a couch,  but soon enough we found ourselves moving the office for the third time and now we are 12 people and growing. We got more work but didn’t find the solution to manage and supervise all the tasks and projects. It was very clear to us that projects that aren’t majored are not managed properly, but we just didn’t find the right tool to do that. Then came Producteev and it changed our world!

Since we started using the product we increased our work and profit by almost 50 percent. It sounds crazy but it became an integral part of our staff everyday work. If you run a company but find it hard to keep up with all of your staff's tasks this is the tool for you, it saves you time and money from day one."