In a world where everyone is in a hurry, remembering to do something can be very difficult, especially if we don't have the habit of marking everything in handy reminders or "To-Do List". In order to avoid losing sight of your professional goals or forgetting all the products to take in the supermarket, in this guide we will show you the best programs, the best websites and the best apps that we can use to generate lists and reminders to remember . In this way we can proceed on the job in a much more precise and schematic way, reaching one step at a time and without losing sight of the most important objectives; in the same way, if we have to take a variety of products, we can use these programs for notes and notes, on PC and smartphone, (we exclude voice assistants such as Alexa and Google Home) to be used as To Do List which in Italian means to create " shopping lists" or "to-do lists ". The programs listed here are synchronized online, in the sense that the notes written by PC can also be found on the internet in your account and in the related apps for Android or iPhone.
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Best programs for notes, notes and to-do lists
Since a wide variety of themed services are available, in this guide we will show you only those that are offered for free (or with a limited free account), so that you can generate any type of reminder and to-do list without spending even one euro.Evernote
Probably the best service we can use for reminders and lists is Evernote .
Thanks to a cloud space we will be able to generate our notes, our reminders and our shopping lists on any device in our possession, with the possibility to review and modify them at any time of the day. In this way, if we reach a goal when we are away from home, simply tick the associated voice or note to find it synchronized also on the PC, once back in the office or at home. Notes and reminders can also be shared with other users, so you can create projects or to-do lists with multiple users. Voice notes, photo notes and notes with excerpts from articles or news from the Internet are supported, so you can use the most interesting sources later.
Evernote can be used directly from the website or as a dedicated Windows program; to create and edit notes when we are away from home, we can use the Evernote app for Android and iOS.
Evernote is available for free, but some advanced features are only available upon subscription.
Remember The Milk
Another service similar to Evernote but with a much more user-friendly interface is definitely Remember The Milk .
With Remember The Milk we can create reminders for any appointment or for anything we risk forgetting about the moment, adding notes from time to time on things to do and things already done. In fact, all the notes generated have a deadline, after which a warning or notification will be issued, so as never to forget what we had to do at a certain time. In addition to the simple notes and reminders, we can also generate the classic To-Do List in order to insert a list of objectives to be achieved or the simple shopping list!
The service synchronizes the notes on any device, even if the maximum of the potential we can have them using one of the dedicated apps for Android and iOS.
To access the lists and reminders from PC or Mac, we recommend using the Webapp, easily accessible with any computer and any browser.
Remember The Milk is free for personal use, but some of the features (such as accessing completed lists and reminders) are only available for a fee.
Google Keep
One of the best services to track progress and create reminders and to-do lists is Google Keep .
With this completely free service (and without subscription costs, even for professional use) we will be able to generate notes, reminders and lists of actions to do or things to take, dividing them by color and by category. Each note can be shared with other users who use the same app or who have a Google Account, so they can fill or edit each note in a shared way. Excellent integration with other Google services: we can also move the note to Google Calendar or ask the Google Assistant to add a reminder to save on Google Keep.
In addition to the website, we can also use the service on smartphones and tablets, thanks to the apps for Android and iOS, or use the specific extension for Google Chrome.
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Microsoft OneNote
For those who do not want to subscribe to new online services and prefer to keep everything on their computer, the most popular software for monitoring goals, collecting information and sharing it with colleagues or friends, is Microsoft OneNote, free for everyone.
With OneNote you can dedicate an entire notebook to mark your own purposes or mark them in separate sections. For each objective, progress can be tracked, also attaching supporting documents or images. The application closely remembers Office, so it will be simple to use for all users already used to using it on Word or Excel as well. In addition to the program for Windows and Mac, we can also synchronize notes and reminders on Android and iOS.
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stickK
One of the best reminder sites we can use is StickK .
With this online service, which can also be used via the app, we can plan all our activities: for example, a student could plan to read a book in a month 10 pages a day, a professional might want to dedicate an hour a day to study English . Once a task has been added, in addition to remembering the commitment as a reminder, you are also asked to mark any progress, to check if, therefore, you are respecting the work plan programmed periodically. To make a self-conviction, like an autogenic training, and always keep in mind what is the motivation for such a thing to be done every day, it is possible to specify this final goal which is sent and remembered. From the website, you can see how many days are left and the percentage of days the daily task was completed.
stickK can be used from a website or downloaded for smartphones and tablets with Android and iOS operating systems.
Conclusions
Whatever our job or business, having a program, a site or an app that allows you to keep all the reminders and also to mark the progress made so far will allow you to significantly increase our productivity and our free time.In another guide we saw together how to Write Post-it on the PC desktop for notes or reminders attached to the screen
In two other articles we talked about online reminders to track and remember things to do and the calendar to print on a page with space for reminders .
