listo is spanish, and means “done”, “finished”. We deemed this appropriate for our new venture, the lis.to Task Manager. Mathias and I were missing a certain feature set:

A simple, easy and flexible task manager that enables you to follow GTD but doesn’t force you to. You can use lis.to as your favorite note-taking tool, or your shopping list. But GTD is absolutely possible. We don’t believe in enforcing processes – either you do your weekly review or you don’t.
In this regard: Installation and uninstall needs to be easy and painless. I would like to be able to uninstall the software simply by deleting a folder – no system-clogging.

Cross-platform It has to be available at least on Windows, Mac, Linux and – for sure – the iPhone. Handling tasks, or GTD for that matter, is only possible if you have ubiquitous capture – and nothing falls through the cracks. Once you have your app in the office but not at home or not while shopping the usefulness diminishes rapidly.

Metaphors – long, hard thoughts went into the UI/usage metaphor. And instead of tags (like things) we opted for a folder metaphor. We really like tags, but we found them hard to understand for average-joe and inconsistent in certain areas. With lis.to you can do multi-folder drag&drop into folders, and deleting tasks (or actions as they are called in GTD-methodology) in just one works as you would expect it in Windows or Mac OS X.

Free and open-source We prefer open-source over closed-source software. This makes sure, you will never lose the data you entered into the system – lock-in? Not with lis.to. An easy to export, or even manually manage XML-file is your complete task-repository.

Let us know how you think this worked out and give it a try: Download lis.to taks management here