I continue to be torn as to whether 30boxes or Tasktoy should be my home page. Actually, so far Tasktoy has been the winner, but I keep  second guessing myself.

One of the features on Tasktoy I felt was totally unnecessary was the different “locations” you could pick: work, home, errands, and groceries. It seemed totally useless for the most part because my workplace is my home and vice versa. I don’t need a cookie at my work desktop that tells the site to show me my work tasklist. I’m at the same pc when I’m at home.

I realized this week that I’m thinking too literalistically (if I may coin a word). Instead of thinking of the locations on the screen as dependent on locations in space, I should think of the locations on the screen as creating a transition in space. Flipping from “work” to “home” and seeing work tasks disappear and home tasks appear is a way to mark off boundaries.

When you’re working at home, this can be extremely significant. It is way too easy to end up robbing everyone you live with as you work all hours instead of living. Far from being irrelevant to my situation, the location markers are probably more important than they would be if I had an office outside the home.

So while 30boxes is an amazing calendar program, I am still not using its to-do list. Nor am I using it as my homepage, yet.