PolyBlogging

As a polyblogger, todo lists are your friend.

Todo lists of some sort are vital for:

• recording posting/series ideas,
• new blog/domain concepts, and
• marketing ideas.

I’d like to talk about a couple of tools that I use in polyblogging every day.
Simple list management
I use todoist.com for todo list management.

Todoist is brilliant for simple lists - just create a project (a bucket for ideas) and plug away. It handles dates in a very mature way - you can enter next Tuesday as 4 MAR, March 4th, 4/3/2008, or just “next Tuesday”.
The mind map alternative
I also use mind maps in my day-to-day consulting work.

Mind maps are good for storing ideas that fit into compartments - and smaller compartments within them. Once you’ve used mind mapping software for recording a lot of ideas in a hurry you’ll never go back

I use MindManager Mac (on the Mac) and MindManager Pro (under Vista) - both of which cost money - but there are free alternatives like FreeMind (Wikipedia has a list of available alternatives).

UPDATE: Nathanael just mentioned Mindomo (a web-based mind mapping tool) on Twitter. Basic access is free and there a premium advanced (USD6.00 per month) version. I’m just looking at it now - early indications are that it is worth a look.

If you would like to know more about either of these tools, or about todo list management in general, please leave a comment