Over the last years, I have tried many many task management tools, but I have never been really happy with anyone of them. About two years ago, I decided to stick with Remember The Milk, which seemed to have everything a task management service should have; from lists to tags to priorities to e-mailing in functions etc. RTM is a really powerful tool; and yet, I have to admit that I only used it from time to time. Every once in a while, I made an effort, and managed to actually manage my tasks with it for a couple of weeks, but soon, I gave up again.

I'm not blaming RTM (or any other task management software) for this; it just seems that I haven't figured out a way to work with them yet. So I have recently decided to give a new tool a try: Teuxdeux, designed by blogger and designer Swissmiss (who recently attended one of our Sandbox dinners in NYC). And so far, I'm really happy with the tool - for one main reason: It is really simple. Dead simple.

There are no lists and no tags. You can't add notes to tasks, or places, you can't connect them with your e-mails, color them differently or sort them alphabetically. There is simply a list for each day, and a "someday" bucket. You can add tasks, rearrange them with drag and drop, mark them completed and delete them. That's it.

And it turns out that probably that's all it needs, at least for a big majority of people, including me. Our lives, while sometimes hectic, are simply not that complicated that they need very sophisticated software to manage it. A simple yet well-designed tool does the trick.

Now, having said that, there are still a few things I'd like to see added to TeuxDeux: Offline access (through Google Gears), and an iPhone application. But that's all. Really.