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What women want, actresses tell on Women's Day
Veteran Shabana Azmi says women must be "placed at the centre of development" while another seasoned actor Khushboo feels it's time to "change the mindset of people" towards women.bollywood Updated: Mar 07, 2012 20:25 IST
Women's Day is March 8 and Indian actresses express what it means to be a woman, what changes they feel should be brought about and which woman inspires them:
Shabana Azmi: Separate but equal/different but equal surely must become the axiom for Women's Day. Men and Women are different... and this difference needs to be celebrated. I salute the women's movement for creating space that has allowed many of us to walk the untrodden path. But we must remember with shame that there are pockets in our country where female foeticide is still being practised... Women must be placed at the centre of development because empowerment of women is the true yardstick of a nation's progress….
Being a woman for me is essentially mastering the art of multitasking, being a care-giver to parents, kids and spouse... But above all being a woman means being informed by my gender and playing the game differently and negotiating more space for all women.
The woman I admire most is my mother Shaukat Kaifi. I find inspiration from my maid who washes our dishes so her daughters can go to English school, from women who work in the fields and factories. More power to women.
Khushboo: I don't celebrate Women's Day as I celebrate being a woman every day. We need to bring the change in our mindsets rather than in society, because we are the architects of our social order. Do I want changes? I am quite content with my space at home and at work. I am not inspired by any woman. But I do have the highest regard for Hema aunty (Hema Malini). The one woman has made a difference in my life was Ubin Fernandez, my hairdresser, guide, guardian, mother, friend… Lost her to cancer last December. She had been with me for 28 years from the time I became a leading lady in 1984.
Aditi Rao Hydari: Being a woman means turning every negative into a positive... mustering a great inner strength in the toughest and gentlest of circumstances. In most societies, women are taught to hide their inherent sensuality grace and beauty. Every woman must be allowed to be herself. Speaking for cinema, I wish our movies wouldn't objectify women... I'm inspired by any woman who has worked with passion and lived with grace. There are so many unsung women who do that every day. They are my heroes.
Pooja Bedi: Being a woman is the most complete experience. We embody and express naturally the qualities of nurturing and empathy, gentleness and compassion and an incredible inner strength. We are Laxmi, Saraswati, Parvati, Durga and Kali. Personally on this Women's Day I see no need for change, as I feel I possess a great yin and yang balance. Professionally I'd like to do another talk-show to inspire women to live their lives to their full potential... I also want to create awareness about female foeticide and gender bias. The woman I find most inspiring? Angelina Jolie.
Alisha Chinai: The only way to get power is to give it away. No one understands this more than a woman. She has the ultimate unimaginable power... The women who inspire me? Sonia Gandhi, Eva Peron and Madonna.
Lilette Dubey: For me being a woman means that I have the power of Durga and Shakti... the power to be a force. The power to be multifaceted. I'm lucky to be born to play so many roles in real and reel life... I'd like to expand the scope of my activities, explore new talents, may be make a film, write a book or cut an album. I'd love to be a grand mom. I've always been inspired by Meryl Streep's versatile talent and innate goodness.
Raima Sen: Being a woman for me means a number of things. Independence, strength, grace, determination... I'd like to do more roles of substance, stronger characters. On a personal level, I'd like to be more resolute and go out there to make a difference. The woman who inspires me most is my grandmother Suchitra Sen.
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Green Acres
This story appears in the October 1997 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
As entrepreneurship grows in America, finding the cities that offer the best opportunities for small business can give you a great head start. But many entrepreneurs are escaping city life in search of greener pastures--literally. They've done the city scene, either growing a business there or living there long enough to know they want to start their own business in a smaller town. And now that technology, such as the Internet, e-mail and fax machines, allows businesspeople to operate from their cars, hotel rooms and even campsites, many Americans are seizing the chance to indulge in a better way of life while still fulfilling their dreams of owning a business.
Before you head for the hills, however, ask yourself: Are you ready for the country? If you're nodding your head enthusiastically--and you've put in many hours of research--then sell the house, pack the bags, gather the spouse and kids, and head for someplace like Fairfield, Iowa. Dubbed "Silicorn Valley," this town of approximately 10,000 boasts several software firms, an oil brokerage, a tofu maker, a telecommunications business and a chimney supplies wholesaler--all founded by entrepreneurs seeking a simpler way of life.
One of those entrepreneurs is Ed Malloy, a member of the Fairfield City Council and president of Danaher Oil Co., an oil brokerage with $1.5 million in revenues last year. Like many other Fairfield newcomers, Malloy was attracted to the town because of its Maharishi University of Management, which focuses on the study of transcendental meditation.
"[This is] a very charming town with a manufacturing and agricultural base but virtually no jobs available for the kinds of people who were moving here," Malloy says. He believes the primary reason so many people relocated to Fairfield--the pursuit of a more spiritual life--engendered creativity and drive. Thus was born a successful base of self-starters.
Small-business owners who switch to a more rural existence often have something more secular in mind than Maharishi devotees do, such as financial well-being. For these entrepreneurs, hurdles litter the track. They must absorb the shock of adjusting to rural culture, navigate the difficulties of keeping family together, and discover new business practices necessitated by an out-of-the-way location. For many businesspeople relocating to an area that offers a less hurried way of life, finding the "om" that those Fairfield residents value may prove less helpful than putting a little "oomph" into their businesses.
Where The Buffalo Roam
The rural life has its advantages. Many small towns in states such as Iowa and Indiana are crying out for new businesses. Dependent for generations on sagging agricultural or manufacturing economies, these towns need entrepreneurs and the jobs they supply to stay economically viable. In exchange, they offer lower overhead costs and fewer of the agonies of city life, such as crime and pollution.
"I think people are getting fed up with where they are," says Jon Bard, who left the New York City public relations company he founded to become a consultant and newsletter writer in Fairplay, Colorado. His audiotape series and courses at Colorado Free University teach entrepreneurs how to succeed in rural communities.
Still, the decision to move to a rural location is not without its problems. Many who leave the city do so too quickly, before they've put together a business plan or even explored the region or town to which they plan to move. This lack of foresight often portends failure, Bard warns.
Jeff Raim left behind 18 years of running various businesses in the Tucson, Arizona, area so he could, as he puts it, "have a life." A lifelong entrepreneur, Raim, 42, set out on a two-year search, trekking through towns like Bountiful, Utah, and Bozeman, Montana, until he came upon the village of Angel Fire, New Mexico, a ski resort community with just 400 permanent residents. After moving there in 1995, he started a mangement consulting firm, Empowered Management Inc. Consulting with clients by phone, fax and the Internet, Raim generated close to $250,000 in sales last year and has nearly 40 clients nationwide.
But it wasn't easy getting started. Raim discovered, as do many entrepreneurs who leave the city, that even the most basic services found in the city are hard to come by in smaller communities. Until recently, for example, Angel Fire had no local access number for the Internet service Raim uses, forcing him to pay long-distance charges to access the Net.
"You [rely on] things like Federal Express," he says. "Well, overnight service to remote places is usually not overnight." Post office boxes are not always accessible, he says, and service industries work at their own pace. Raim has also had to deal with an unreliable electric service, which has often forced him to rely on backup batteries and generators to keep his business up and running.
Wake-Up Call
Small towns may also lack a ready infrastructure or a steady pool of qualified workers, says Tom Mason, an economics professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, who has studied entrepreneurship for more than 15 years. "You might like living on the side of a mountain," Mason says, "but if your business starts growing and you need a couple of people to grow it with, where are [you going to find them]?"
For Elwood, Indiana, business owner Ed Escallon, the answer lies hours away. Many of his employees live in large cities, while Escallon's small manufacturing company, Terronics Development Corp., remains rooted on a farm in the town of 15,000.
"We were looking for a place outside the smokestacks," he says, referring to General Motors' dominance of Indiana's landscape and economy. Escallon, 53, left a job in industrial Muncie, Indiana, 13 years ago to build his 14-person company, which now reaps more than $1 million yearly.
The struggle to find employees constitutes one concern for rural entrepreneurs; getting along with the neighbors is yet another. While the added tax dollars and employment opportunities a new company provides a small town are quite welcome, the success a firm might bring can also have some undesirable effects. A successful company may supersede existing firms in importance and influence, taking away employees and even driving up home prices. Towns sometimes offer economic incentives to lure new business owners--money local companies might view as ill-spent.
"It could go both ways," says Terry Besser, a sociology professor at Iowa State University in Ames, who has conducted a study of how firms do business in 30 small towns across Iowa. "It could be that the town is so happy to see [the new business], they welcome this person with open arms and provide all kinds of assistance and knowledge of the local market." On the other hand, she says, outsiders sometimes start operating in a town without a firm knowledge of the way business is done there. They might find navigating their new home's social world difficult as well: Small towns can often prove cliquish.
When Bob Wersen moved his electronic components manufacturing firm, Panel Components Corp., to Oskaloosa, Iowa, from Santa Rosa, California, in 1993, he went out of his way to get involved.
Despite more than one hometown businessman expressing disdain for the newcomer, Wersen plunged into daily life. "I went out of my way to meet people in town on their terms," he says. "I reached out to people whenever I had the opportunity. I maintained a very visible presence. We made every attempt to communicate publicly with the community about [our business] and the hiring process."
Wersen relocated to Oskaloosa as a matter of business survival. "We needed to be in a different facility to lower our cost structure," says Wersen, 55. "Since I was going to have to make some changes anyhow, it looked like a good time to relocate."
A chance 1991 meeting at a plastics convention with the executive vice president of the Oskaloosa Chamber of Commerce led Wersen to the town, which offered a friendlier regulatory and political climate than Santa Rosa, as well as a better cost structure. In addition, Oskaloosa and the State of Iowa offered Wersen forgivable loans totaling $275,000 and 100 percent financing on a new building.
After Wersen made his decision and returned to Santa Rosa to give his employees the news, he faced a new obstacle: No one wanted to move with him. And yet, Wersen says, between the outgoing employees in Santa Rosa and the new team he developed in Iowa, his customers were never aware the company had relocated.
Packing Up
Preparation is the key to a successful move to the hinterlands. Location, available work force, proximity to transportation, local attitudes and culture shock are all factors to consider. Two kinds of people generally make the move, says Bard: One takes the time to explore and visit; the other just drops everything and leaves. Guess who ends up being more successful? "Preparation can solve a lot of problems, both culturally and business-wise," Bard says.
While small-town life is not for everyone, it has been a successful move for Wersen. After cutting costs by more than $600,000, he has doubled his staff and reached sales of approximately $13 million. In the past, he has worked on the town's Economic Development Committee as well as with the Chamber of Commerce. He has also purchased some outlying land for development, a solution to the housing shortage the town now faces because of Wersen's growing company and several other businesses, which are all attracting more residents. "[My wife and I] both wonder aloud `When is it going to slow down?' " Wersen says. "I can't say I've had any time so far to really kick back and relax."
Contact Sources
Ed Malloy, (515) 472-8421, firstname.lastname@example.com
Jeff Raim, (800) 437-0764, email@example.com
Panel Components Corp., P.O. Box 115, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, (515) 673-5000
Terronics Development Corp., 7565 W. 900 N., Elwood, IN 46036-8907, (765) 552-0808
Two Mile High Press, (719) 836-0394, email@example.com
Brian Steinberg is a freelance writer in New York City whose work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times and The Washington Post.

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ForumsQuestions24 Ways to Improve Toodledo
24 Ways to Improve Toodledo
Ok. I have been using Toodledo extensively now for about a week.
Tried the alternatives, but they all seemed to have issues.
Only the Milk - Nice looking. But doesn't do multi step projects very well.
Nozbe - Handles word wrapping much better then Toodledo, and also does projects more intuitively. But the interface is a bit too cluttered, and the search functionality is not as good. I tried it, but kept feeling like I was lost.
Thinking Rock - Out of the box it is better then Toodledo. More intuitive and the instructions are clearer. But it is a little restrictive, doesn't have the same depth (once you apply your brain to tweaking stuff), and is a desktop app (so no good if I go on holiday, or leave my desk)
Omnifocus and Things are apparently great. But I am on a PC, not a Mac. So both of those are out.
In the end I have opted for Toodledoo. And have got a Pro Plus Account as I want to add files to my projects.
I like Toodledo, but it does currently have a number of drawbacks that I would like to see fixed, hence this post:
I will probably think of others as I use it more, but for now here are 24 areas that I think need changing/improving/adding in to Toodledo.
1/ Word Wrap Needed! Their is no word wrap in grid mode, so that the end of tasks gets cut off. (this is a biggie and urgently needs fixing). I have mentionned this before, but am putting it here for the sake of completeness. One additional suggestion is to add a third view, 'Grid Mode' WITH word wrap. So that folk who are used to one line 'Grids' are still happy.
2/ The Booklet needs urgent work - The booklet picks up the text from the above, so when you print stuff out it misses out words (which makes it worthless in its current format unless you are happy to only see half a description) - Again. Linked to the above problem.
3/ Handles Projects in a clumsy way - Wrap the tabs! Elimate the 'More' Button - Their is no specific section for projects, so you have to figure out how to use one of three sections - Folders, Contexts or Goals to use in this way. And even when you do that, their is an annoying 'More' button, rather then just wrapping the tabs to the next line (As only the milk does for example). (ie so that you cannot see everything that is going on with just a glance)
4/ Should add folders on the fly - You cannot add folders on the fly, which is the obvious thing to do when you are adding a task, and deciding on its status. Instead, clicking 'Add Folder' takes you to the folders section. It would be much improved if you could simply click on a new line (like you can for example in Excel when you click on a new tab).
5/ Badly Needs 'Add a Subtask' functionality - Also, every task really needs the ability to have 'Add a Subtask' (which toodledo doesn't currently have) without having to create a new task, then drag it underneath which is a painful way of doing it. Again, this is a biggie. The whole process is made much more complicated because this is currently missing.
6/ Needs drag and drop - ie Their is no drag and drop for adding a task to a folder (which their is in Nozbe for example) ie Where a project is a folder, goal or context as opposed to a task and subtask where there is drag and drop in toodledo.
7/ Improve the notes functionality in Notebook - The notebook section only adds notes to folders, not goals or contexts or tags. It would also be useful to be able to add notes to tags as quite often these actually encompass a much broader project overview eg health, financial etc. And so are often the most obvious place to add notes too (Note - If the MindMap integration I suggest below was integrated, then this would also mean that one tag eg Health, could contain ALL the different mindmaps for that section - as opposed to being seperately attached to the individual projects eg
go to the gym, eat healthier, get a six pack etc. Allowing a more intuitive use of the program)
8/ Re-ordering the order of tabs is only available in Folders, not Contexts or Goals. So you have to plan ahead of time with Contexts and Goals what order to put stuff in. (clearly not ideal) - And even then, its only available in the main folder menu, not as a drag and drop, which would be better.
9/ No cluck thru from the Folders, Contexts and Goals sections (on the left menu) to the actual tasks (and their should be) ie For example I can see in the folder admin area that I have 21 health tasks, but I cannot just click on it and go to those tasks. Instead I have to click on 'To Do List', then click on
'Folder' at the top, then click on the 'Health' tab. That is a phaff. I should just be able to one click and be there.
10/ Tabs at the top is all well and good, but their could do with being a side menu for 'Projects'. In fact I would suggest an additional 'Project' tab area, distinct from the other sections, as currently all tasks are treated in the same way, and so you have to use a workaround to be able to distinguish between Projects, Tasks, Sub Tasks and Ideas. Their is a lot to be said for having the ability see what projects you have going on in the left (at least as an option)
11/ The print button could really do with 'Print Preview' functionality. So that you could preview your list, and be able to copy, cut and paste without needing to print it. (The booklet functionality has the potential to do this, but because it cuts off half the description, in practice it is not much use for this)
12/ Needs a Tag Cloud on EVERY page - Tags are an obvious way to sort things for most people. And it would be made much easier if Toodle implemented a tag cloud on the left that was viewable on every page. As it is though, tags are very regimented like all the other sections, and not very user friendly. Without being able to see tags on every page, they are MUCH LESS USEFUL.
13/ Ability to change to order of Tabs WITHOUT changeing the dropdown order - The order that items appear in the dropdowns and the order they appear at the top in the tabs is always the same. That is kind of annoying because it may be (especially with the horrible 'More' button making tabs so inaccessible) that you would want to have the tabs in a different configuration then the same items in the dropdown menus (ie so that they appear closer to the left)
14/ Widen the 'More' Button so text appears on one line, not several - Even in its current configuration there must be able to be something done to at least widen the 'More' dropdown. I have a number of goals that are like 'Business - Get More Sales Leads' and they always end up wrapping onto three lines each. The formatting looks awful and they are very hard to read. At least please widen it as a tempoary measure until you get rid of it entirely, and allow tabs to wrap (or at least give the option to do so 'Wrap Tabs')
15/ Needs the ability to have tasks/projects etc in different colours No use of colours currently. One really nice feature of Thinking Rock is that you can assign different colours to different tasks in folders. In effect then, when you view an 'All' tab, you would be able to see at a glance (if you set it up) what spread of tasks you have simply from the colour. It is also a scientific fact that viewing alternate lines in different colours significantly aids memory. So it would also help with the familiarisation process of knowing what you need to do.
16/ Needs the ability to set a task/project to a different font and font size Within the program, some 'tasks' are actually actions, and some are projects with subtasks. It would be nice to be able to set the ones that are projects to have a different font, font size, and colour so that when you view them as a long list they jump out at you. Currently all tasks look the same, so it is hard to differentiate them at a glance from the other tasks and subtasks.
17/ You can collapse sub-headings in say Folder view, and then click to sort on 'Goals'. But you cannot rearrange them. That would be nice to do, because then you could re-arrange the things you want to do in an overall category based on their importance on any particular day, without having to change the priority of every single item.
18/ Put the 'Star' link next to 'Classic' so it is available on every page - Stars are obviously really useful, because they are ubiquitous throughout every page. And a lot of folk use them as a handy 'Today' kind of list. However, it is currently a phaff to get to the 'Starred' page. You have to click back to the 'Main' tab, and then click on 'Starred' (assuming you remember its there). Instead, I think it would be good to have a little star next to 'Classic' on the main 'View By' menu at the top. So that this is easily accessible from every page.
19/ Put a additional 'T' next to 'Classic' on every page so you can see what you have to do 'Today' - As another suggestion you could also add 'T' (Stands for 'Today' or 'This Week' next to the '*' both in the main task area, and at the top next to 'Classic'. In that way you could go through your list quickly in your weekly or Daily review picking a whole longer list of tasks that you would ideally like to do, but realistically won't get around to in one day, and mark them as 'T' in the same way that the '*' is. The advantage of having another of these type of areas (In addition to the 'Starred' area) is that you could then click to go into the 'T' area, and mark the most impotant 'Must Do' items with a star. In that way you can reduce a massive list down to a couple of items very quickly, and avoid cluttering up your brain. But at the same time, only have to go back to the smaller 'T' list once you have completed the stars to choose some more to do.
20/ Needs the ability to select multiple tasks to assign to a folder, context etc - No multiple select feature currently. It would be good to be able to select multiple tasks at once and set them all to a certain folder or context.
21/ Would benefit greatly by being able to view Mind Maps within Toodledo - I extensively use Mind Maps to plan out the structure of projects and what the next steps are. As a Pro Plus User I can add this to the projects themselves, and I find this a great feature. However, what would be even better is if you could add in some compatibility so that mindmaps could be viewed directly from within Toodledo. Mindjet (Mind Manager) have a free API to allow programs just like Toodledo to do exactly that - Here is a deployment guide they have here - http://www.mindjet.com/pdf/pdf_eng/Mindjet_MindManager_Viewer_Deployment_Guide.pdf (This would also create a VERY compelling reason for people to upgrade to the Pro Plus version, and so I suspect would make you a lot more money once implemented)
22/ Import/Export needs another option to download both Tasks and completed tasks together, and some more explanation text - Import/Export works well, but currently it is split into two sections. The first exports/imports tasks as csv. The second imports/exports completed tasks as csv. This works fine. However, when I first did this I exported the list to excel to make some changes, and then re-imported it, but it simply added them all in again (ie 400 tasks became 800) I then nuked the tasks in the account settings, and re-imported. Which worked (thankfully), but did have the effect of also nuking the completed tasks which was regrettable.
I think you could do with adding a third option to download both tasks and completed tasks in one go; and add in a little explanation above the area to re-iterate that nuking the tasks kills BOTH tasks and completed tasks (that wasn't an intuitive thought for me at least); and that you need to export BOTH first if you want to save them. Doing that would have saved me from nuking my completing tasks without a backup (not a big deal after only a week, but would have been a disaster after 6 months or 2 years)
23/ Tags needs an extra 'Tags - Dropdown' Menu' - No drop down list for Tags - Personally I like being able to free flow sometimes with tags (as is currently the case); but even after a week I can see that having an addional menu item of 'Tags - Dropdown' would be REALLY useful. In essence I think you need two menus. The current one, for free flow on the fly tagging; and a second one which is a 'Tags - Dropdown' of all the tags currently used. This would benefit from having some kind of multi-select capability, so that you could select multiple tags from the dropdown. This, in combination with putting a tag cloud on every page, would mean that tags could then be used quite effectively on their own to manage Projects, and would definitely add an extra dimension to Toodledo.
24/ Tags in groups, Contexts in groups, Folders in Group Functionality Please - Many times you have projects that are part of larger projects, but need to be split up for best use's sake. Oftentimes these can be seen as contexts, but in practice even then there may be many contexts that really fit together. There are workarounds by utilising the contexts, folders, tags and goals in various sneaky ways together. But it would be better to be able to assign group funtionality. This is already being utilised in a crude way in the 'Goals' section by splitting goals into long term , mid term and short term. However, if it was implemented throughout the program, then it would aid to ever simplify workflow on days when that worked best, (ie see a group of tasks together) and yet have the ability to get down to specifics when that was required.
Ok. So, given those drawbacks, why Toodledo?
Well, basically, because it has three areas that can be user defined (folders, contexts and goals), which means that you can workaround many of the problems (but not things like page wrap, booklet problems, adding folders and subtasks on the fly etc - I do think a lot of things need work in toodledo) - Which the other systems I have tested seem not to be able to do.
It also has excellent search functionality. The filtering is great, and the import/export feature works well.
I think Toodledoo is flawed, but it does seem to be the best one around at the moment for 'real world' getting organised.
Though it is far from simple to think through how to use it, and there could really do with being some instruction videos to give people a clearer idea of how to use it.
I am still tweaking my own system of how to use it 'productively' myself.
In any case, those are some preliminary thoughts of areas in Toodledo that would benefit from some tweaking.
I like it, but those improvements would make it much easier to use in the real world where you have hundreds of tasks and projects to perform.
Wow, Stuart. Thorough to say the least.
1. I'm not concerned with this, but to each their own.
2. I agree, but not for the specific reason you mention. I just want more customization, better subtasks, etc.
3. I think multiple rows of tabs would be good, but in terms of Toodledo projects, have you considered using parent tasks as projects? I believe that is the most common system used by Pro Toodledoers.
4. I agree
5. I agree, and it looks like it's not far off: https://www.toodledo.com/forums/2/2004/-9415/resort-tasks-on-changes-and-add-a-subtask-feature.html
6. Might be neat
7. Not sure about contexts for the Notebook, but Tags would be cool. I also want to see more advanced formatting options.
8. I agree about the need for user-ordering of contexts/goals
9. Don't care personally, but again, to each their own
10. Don't quite understand what you mean
11. The "Print" button I believe does just what your print page from your browser menu would do. So you can see a preview from there. For me with Firefox, it's just File->Print Preview, and it shows exactly the same thing as will be printed by the onscreen button.
12. Interesting. I am a supporter of the Tag Cloud idea, but hadn't considered it being omnipresent. I'll have to think about this some more.
13. Another one that's not important to me
14. Nice idea. Hadn't bothered me really, but looking at it, the box should be wider.
15. This would be very cool. I would love to have colors for priority, and folder, but I'm sure others have other preferences. This would also be excellent for the iPhone app.
16. Separating tasks which are projects from tasks which are tasks is a big issue. Have you seen Vin's tip here using stars: https://www.toodledo.com/forums/3/1953/0/parent-tasks-at-top-of-list.html
He also posted a video that shows how well this works.
17. I think this is really the same issue as "8"
18. This has also been suggested for the Hotlist. Personally, I just leave my main view on Star, and then whenever I click Main, it goes right there. You can also use bookmarks in your browser for list that are particularly useful for your personal system.
19. I would rather just have some customization options for the Hotlist, like the iPhone app has.
20. Maybe it's not always ideal, but you can do this with search and multiedit. I would love to see multiedit available everywhere.
21. I just started trying out some Mindmapping software, and for me at least, it seems like something better done with pencil & paper, but if anyone could get it right, I suppose it would be Toodledo.
22. If you are familiar with XML, that import/export can handle a completed yes/no field and so is not split into two different lists.
23. Yes, we need a better way of using tags, and it seems Toodledo is on this one as well: https://www.toodledo.com/forums/2/1862/-9179/fat-fingers-for-tags.html
24. I'd have think about this one as well.
Anyway, great, exhaustive list. I don't agree with all of it, but you seem to have hit most of the major points people talk about.
Toodledo Founder
Thanks for all the suggestions. There are too many for me to comment on them individually, but I have read them all and updated our internal to-do list appropriately. Many of your suggestions were already on our list, and some of them are already being worked on.
1. Don't care.
2. Don't care.
3. Definitely.
4. Perhaps, but not major.
5. Definitely.
6. Don't care.
7. Yes.
8. Yes.
9. Good point.
10. Yes.
11. I can do this now through my browser.
12. Not obvious to me, but a good idea.
13. Good idea.
14. Yes.
15. Good idea.
16. Perhaps.
17. Not clear.
18. Not clear.
19. No use to me.
20. Yes.
21. Nice but not important to me.
22. Good idea.
23. One dropdown menu would be nice.
24. Yes.
BTW, having the same mistake eight times in one post is a bit much. Please take a look at this quiz: http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/their_vs_there_vs_theyre_1.asp
This message was edited May 13, 2009.
I agree as well! Also, I would add a major to do to get a good UI specialist and help you organize your nav bars and tabs, etc.
Simple things like looking at key strokes. I should be able to add a new task with the same context and folder as I am currently viewing in one click.
OmniFocus would be a good one to emulate...
Posted by lise:
I should be able to add a new task with the same context and folder as I am currently viewing in one click.
This is already what happens. At least for your view, not your sort criteria if that's what you mean.
Posted by Anders:
20. Maybe it's not always ideal, but you can do this with search and multiedit.Only if the tasks have something in common that allows you to create a Search that includes them all. Even then, why create a Search when the relevant tasks are already viewable in the current list?
It would be useful to be able to select a few tasks and, say, move them all from various dates to Monday.
This issue has been addressed before. I think that Toodledo's answer was that it would be confusing to have two checkboxes, one to complete the task and another to select the task. That's true, but the checkboxes could be distinctly different in shape, color, and location. Also, someone suggested ctrl-click for selecting multiple tasks. I like the idea but this method wouldn't be obvious to some users, even though it is used to select multiple files in Windows Explorer or selecting email messages in Outlook.
Yes, I suppose "not always ideal" might have been a bit of an understatement. In terms of selecting tasks for multiedit, I think a separate selection "box" or whatever should just appear next to every task when multiedit is opened(if it were available everywhere). It could be an on/off switch or something like that to further avoid confusion with the regular check boxes.
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In terms of selecting tasks for multiedit, I think a separate selection "box" or whatever should just appear next to every task when multiedit is opened(if it were available everywhere). It could be an on/off switch or something like that to further avoid confusion with the regular check boxes.
Why not something like ctrl+click to multi-select tasks? That is the combination used in many other apps & operating systems for selecting multiple items, so it seems like the intuitive option.
Posted by stuarts28
15/ Needs the ability to have tasks/projects etc in different colours
I'd quite like the option to use colours too. I really wanted this when I first started using toodledo, but I'd got used to not having them so I'd kind of forgotten about the idea. I use the folders for what I sometimes call "uberprojects", similar to GTD "areas of focus", and these categories are consistent amongst most of the things that I use to organise my life. In apps that allow it I use consistent colour coding for these "uberprojects" too (e.g. gmail, gcal), so it would be nice to have it in Toodledo (although admittedly not exactly essential!). I'm not sure if I'd want the entire task in a different colour, though, perhaps just the folder name, or maybe even have each checkbox with a different background colour?
Posted by stuarts28
6/ Needs drag and drop - ie Their is no drag and drop for adding a task to a folder
Another feature I'd like to see. Sometimes dragging and dropping can be the quickest way to reorganise things, so it would be very nice if we could drag tasks to one of the tabs at the top of the screen (or to a divider when tasks are sorted by certain criteria) to reassign it.
Posted by stuarts28
19/ Put a additional 'T' next to 'Classic' on every page so you can see what you have to do 'Today' [...] In that way you could go through your list quickly in your weekly or Daily review picking a whole longer list of tasks that you would ideally like to do
You could accomplish something similar with tags and a saved search. I used to do this, using a "*" as a tag to mark those I aimed to do that day, although I've now changed my system a bit so I don't use it any more. However, I like the idea of having the ability to add extra views to the end of the views list. There is a greasemonkey script called "ToodleDo Favorites" (http://userscripts.org/tdFavorites) which does something like this, but I found it a bit annoying as it adds an extra line under the views menu & two little "+" signs on each tab, which just takes up too much screen space for my liking. So I now just use my browser bookmarks to achieve the same thing (right click on any tab, including saved searches, and save as a bookmark).
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Posted: May 19, 2009
The internet interface should be like the Iphones. It works much better than the internet version. I originally bought the app on the app store and love it compared to others like omnifocus setting multiple dates makes things easier. The Interface is great I just click folders it shows the folders and I click on which folder. Adding Sub tasks on the fly would be amazing. It's great with the Iphone and the pro account my girlfriend and I can constantly update the grocery list and the clean up the house list as well as see if she paid a bill or it still needs to be dropped off. If the drop down menu's for Contexts, Goals, all of them had a spot that said add new it would save so much time.
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Posted by Kellonthompson:
The internet interface should be like the Iphones.
I disagree. There is just so much more that is possible on the site than on the iPhone app. I won't even try to go into the numerous features that make the website more powerful. I don't know if there were specific things you were referring to like some of the UI elements, and maybe you can share some more specific details of why you like the iPhone app better, but there is certainly not anything it can do that the website can't do as well or better (though perhaps not always as simply).
Kellonthompson, have you tried the slim site? http://www.toodledo.com/slim/index.php
If you just want a simpler interface, you may like it. The slim site is also available as a Firefox sidebar, an iGoogle gadget, and there are other options.
Edited slightly when reread because it sounded more argumentative than I had intended to be :)
This message was edited May 19, 2009.
I wanted to add that one of the great benefits of using a web based apps - especially one as cleanly designed as ToodleDo - is that you can extend the UI yourself. In about 10 minutes I was able to do two of the items on your list (1 & 9(only folders))using Greasemonkey extension to Firefox
Here they are:
#1 http://www.legrig.com/soft/toodledo-addons/toodledo_wrap_tasks.user.js
#9 http://www.legrig.com/soft/toodledo-addons/toodledo_clickthrough_folderscount.user.js
(To load, install greasemonkey and click on those links.)
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Posted by Kellonthompson:
The internet interface should be like the Iphones.
I disagree. There is just so much more that is possible on the site than on the iPhone app. I won't even try to go into the numerous features that make the website more powerful. I don't know if there were specific things you were referring to like some of the UI elements, and maybe you can share some more specific details of why you like the iPhone app better, but there is certainly not anything it can do that the website can't do as well or better (though perhaps not always as simply).
Kellonthompson, have you tried the slim site? http://www.toodledo.com/slim/index.php
If you just want a simpler interface, you may like it. The slim site is also available as a Firefox sidebar, an iGoogle gadget, and there are other options.
Edited slightly when reread because it sounded more argumentative than I had intended to be :)
I agree with Anders here. The iPhone interface is nice for the size of screen you need to work with but it's not as functional as the web site.
I agree with most of your suggestions and I want to thank you for taking the time to put that post together.
My main gripe is that Toodledo truly does not support Projects as they should in fact, I think Projects in Toodledo are simply work arounds and not a true Project focused implementation. Subtask can't be use while Nested because you loos the ability to get notified.
I also have used all the apps. you mentioned except for the Apple based ones. I also believe that Toodledo is the best and offers the most. Toodledo does need some work and I am sure that many of these things will be added, but it's still the better option right now.
Michael Durland
Posted: May 22, 2009
I haven't read every single post, so forgive me if this has already been suggested, but for me, simply renaming "Folders" to "Projects" would make a huge mental leap of improvement. Of course I understand people use Folders for many different things, so this would need to be an option.
Posted by Michael Durland:
I haven't read every single post, so forgive me if this has already been suggested, but for me, simply renaming "Folders" to "Projects" would make a huge mental leap of improvement.
The thing is that a lot of people are using tasks as projects, with folders used as areas of focus or some other form of categorization. It wouldn't really bother me too much because I don't really worry about names so much, but I would prefer if we got a new level between Folders and Tasks for Projects. Toodledo has hinted at adding an additional level, and I really hope they are considering doing it that way, although for some reason I suspect we will see another level of subtasks instead(only speculation of course).
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At a meeting of the Group of 20 leading economies in Mexico City, the head of the G20's regulatory arm said the goal of having strong global swaps reforms in place by the end of 2012 was not in the cards.
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Finance ministers from Britain, France and Japan asked the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission last month to curb the cross-border reach of its new derivatives rules amid signs that the global derivatives market was already fragmenting.
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Carney, who also heads Canada's central bank, said the next few weeks would be important for resolving the cross-border disputes, especially between the United States and Europe, where the bulk of derivatives trading takes place.
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Mr. Engel (for himself, Mr. Israel, Mr. Honda, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Gutiérrez, and Mr. Serrano) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
To protect the Nation's law enforcement officers by banning the Five-seveN Pistol and 5.7 x 28mm SS190, SS192, SS195LF, SS196, and SS197 cartridges, testing handguns and ammunition for capability to penetrate body armor, and prohibiting the manufacture, importation, sale, or purchase of such handguns or ammunition by civilians.
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Law enforcement is facing a threat from handguns and accompanying ammunition, which are designed to penetrate police body armor, being marketed and sold to civilians.
A Five-seveN Pistol and accompanying ammunition, manufactured by FN Herstal of Belgium as the 5.7 x 28 mm System, has recently been recovered by law enforcement on the streets. The Five-seveN Pistol is legally available for purchase by civilians under current law.
The Five-seveN Pistol is capable of penetrating level IIA armor. The manufacturer advertises that ammunition fired from the Five-seveN will perforate 48 layers of Kevlar up to 200 meters and that the ammunition travels at 2,100 feet per second.
The Five-seveN Pistol, and similar handguns designed to use ammunition capable of penetrating body armor, pose a devastating threat to law enforcement.
The purpose of this Act is to protect the Nation's law enforcement officers by—
testing handguns and ammunition for capability to penetrate body armor; and
prohibiting the manufacture, importation, sale, or purchase by civilians of the Five-seveN Pistol, ammunition for such pistol, or any other handgun that uses ammunition found to be capable of penetrating body armor.
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a projectile that—
may be used in a handgun; and
the Attorney General determines, pursuant to section 926(d), to be capable of penetrating body armor.
Determination of capability of projectiles To penetrate body armor
Section 926 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Attorney General shall promulgate standards for the uniform testing of projectiles against Body Armor Exemplar.
The standards promulgated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall take into account, among other factors, variations in performance that are related to the type of handgun used, the length of the barrel of the handgun, the amount and kind of powder used to propel the projectile, and the design of the projectile.
As used in paragraph (1), the term Body Armor Exemplar means body armor that the Attorney General determines meets minimum standards for the protection of law enforcement officers.
Armor piercing handguns and ammunition
In general
Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
Five-seveN Pistol
In general
It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, import, market, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive—
the Fabrique Nationale Herstal Five-seveN Pistol;
5.7 x 28mm SS190, SS192, SS195LF, SS196, or SS197 cartridges; or
any other handgun that uses armor piercing ammunition.
This subsection shall not apply to—
any firearm or armor piercing ammunition manufactured for, and sold exclusively to, military, law enforcement, or intelligence agencies of the United States; and
the manufacture, possession, transfer, receipt, shipment, or delivery of a firearm or armor piercing ammunition by a licensed manufacturer, or any person acting pursuant to a contract with a licensed manufacturer, for the purpose of examining and testing such firearm or ammunition to determine whether paragraph (1) applies to such firearm.
Section 924(a)(1)(B) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking
or (q) and inserting
(q), or (aa).


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I am always inspired by the shapes found in nature and leaves are no exception. This piece was inspired by the beauty of the eucalyptus flower on the vine. This was painted on the iPad in Procreate. It is printed on archival Epson Cold Press paper.
This listing is for a print of a digital painting. Frame and mat not included. Each print is signed on the front. The print is made to order and shipped in a tube so you can take it to your local frame shop and choose a frame to fit your home. It will have a white border around the image.
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- 100% Cotton Fiber
- Acid, Lignen, & Chlorine Free
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The cold press manufacture of this media provides an elegantly textured finish, enabling rich, deep blacks and an incredibly wide color gamut. This paper meets my requirements as an archival print media with a white point and contrast ratio without sacrificing the look and feel of a true fine art paper.
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Devean George wants to bring a sense of hope to the north Minneapolis intersection of Golden Valley Road and Penn Avenue.
The Minneapolis native, former Augsburg College star and NBA player is taking aim at the same stretch of neighborhood where he grew up dribbling a basketball and later witnessed a random drive-by killing of an 11-year-old boy that shook the city.
The change will come in the form of 45 affordable housing units, built on top of an outreach program for community youth that he calls George's Building Blocks.
"It's all about collaboration. That's what this plan is. Everyone building blocks one at a time," said George, who played alongside Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal after becoming the first Division III player selected in the NBA draft's first round. "From Morgan Avenue to Queen Avenue. We'll start on this corner, and from there, harmony."
Building toward something greater always has been a part of George's life. He graduated from Benilde-St. Margaret's as a late bloomer and was recruited to attend Augsburg. He wasn't done growing, though. He added four inches in height, starred for the Auggies and was a solid 6-7 by the time he graduated.
The Los Angeles Lakers took notice of his size and work ethic in selecting him in the first round of the 1999 NBA draft. He became only the seventh player in NBA history to win a league championship in each of his first three seasons. He later played with the Dallas Mavericks and Golden State Warriors before retiring after 11 seasons of professional basketball.
Near the end of his playing career, George had a vision for his future. It included real estate and bettering people's lives.
"I wanted to become a person that helped people. There are a lot of people that suffer that aren't involved in the bad stuff going on," said George, 35. "I figured out that playing basketball was not the end goal. I figured out that me playing basketball was probably just to set up for what I'm doing now.
"It is more of me being put in position to be able to help people and have a voice."
Motivated to effect change
In 2006 he began investing in his plan. The beginnings of George Group North and nonprofit organization Building Blocks Minnesota were nothing more than five plots of unkept land occupied by three battered buildings on the corner of Penn Avenue and Golden Valley Road.
The mess didn't bother George or his family. His father, Eddie George Sr., spent most of his life managing a club on the same land. When nearby businesses began to fail, the longtime north Minneapolis resident saw a chance to use it for good. He remembered a time when the facilities were used to help raise money for local kids in need. He approached his son about the possibility to produce something similar.
"A lot of kids around here need something to do. There should be more than just hearing gun shots," Eddie George Sr. said. "There is still good around here. Devean came from the ghetto. Raised in the north side and stayed in the north side."
By that time George had played seven years for the Lakers under legendary coach Phil Jackson, who had taught him what it meant to be a good teammate. He headed to Dallas, where he joined future Hall of Famer Dirk Nowitzki. He considered himself still learning.
Off the court in Dallas, he got involved with The Empowerment Center, a community center in a challenged neighborhood of south Dallas. The Rev. Johnny Flowers, the center's coordinator, called George a "friend to the friendless and father to the fatherless" when others had forgotten the neighborhood.
The experience reminded George of his home and all he had seen growing up.
Visiting the north Minneapolis neighborhood last week, George re-enacted memories of a pair of deadly shootings next to his home in the summer of 1996. Recalling the second one, George pointed to a window on the second floor of his dad's house.
"I was in that room," he said.
Home from college for the summer, George heard gunfire from a drive-by shooting that sprayed bullets at the front porch of the George household where 11-year-old neighbor Byron Phillips, his cousin, and George's then 12-year-old brother, Chafe George, had gathered. Phillips was struck and killed. The shooting set off a summer of concern about gang violence in the city, and it took nearly three years to bring the killers to justice.
"When [George] came into my office the next day after the incident, he looked me in the eye and said 'I'm going to make the NBA. I'm going to take care of my family,' " then-Augsburg coach Brian Ammann said recently. "That was the first year I saw that mentality that 'I'm desperate and I'm going to do this and I'm going to figure it out.' "
Putting vision into action
Three years after his 2010 retirement, George's initial investment still needs work. The vision, however, is complete.
"This is ours," said George, stretching his arms in each direction of Golden Valley Road. He stepped over broken glass and trash as he toured the weed-filled north Minneapolis land. He mapped out a proposed design that will include a fitness center, activity room, retail space and offices built underneath the residential living.
These areas also will provide space for Building Blocks to share its message of finding a better path in life and what it takes to follow that route. It's the backbone of George's nonprofit organization, something he learned from his father and mother, Carol. Both worked two jobs so their three sons could attend private schools.
They also taught him to be wise with money and careful when choosing friends and associates. These life lessons put George in position to start his own real estate group when his pro basketball career ended. The George Group North owns a multifamily rental property in St. Paul and several homes throughout the Twin Cities. Its biggest project is an upscale 53-unit and retail redevelopment in Hopkins called Marketplace & Main.
"It'll be great for the community to have something that'll involve them and actually have them feel part of the project," said Craig Slaughter, Building Blocks director of development. "Our philosophy is if we can spend more time with people in the community, it'll start to bridge that gap."
The Commons at Penn Avenue is an $11.5 million project. The city provided the first $1.125 million from an Affordable Housing Trust Fund and paved the way for $5 million in housing revenue bonds. Applications have been submitted to the Metropolitan Council and the State Housing Agency to complete financing. Construction is scheduled to begin next summer.
One corner, one block at a time
Fifth Ward city councilman Don Samuels recently presented George with a letter of support to be attached to the housing agency application. The letter touched on the waves of destruction the city's north side has endured, most recently from the tornado in 2011. This new construction, however, sends a message that people believe in the renaissance of north Minneapolis, Samuels wrote.
Wes Butler, manager of city's Community Planning and Economic Development multifamily division, said George's vision to include Building Blocks on the ground level will create more community interaction than typical building projects.
While the project will take root on one of north Minneapolis' highest crime intersections, George's group hopes to one day occupy all four corners of the intersection and offer safe shopping options.
George will have plenty of support. His father has become a respected figure throughout the community. Local developer Archie Givens, who has helped build more than 1,100 affordable housing units throughout Minnesota, is part of George's board of advisers. The Pohlad Foundation has shown interest in George's vision and approached the group about potential partnering opportunities.
Former Gophers basketball player Ariel McDonald also has set up a presence in the north Minneapolis neighborhood. McDonald owns and rents several homes in the area and is encouraged to see others share a similar vision for the community.
"There is an old saying from the TV show 'The Wire': 'He who controls the corners, controls the block,' " McDonald said. "Then you can control what's going on inside the walls. You can have good. It's there for the taking."