Focuster

Focuster is a web-based focus management software to help entrepreneurs and other professionals integrate their to do lists with their calendars. Once you create your list of goals for the day and prioritize them, Focuster automatically adds these tasks into open spots on your calendar. The software notifies you when you have free time on your calendar, and gives you a suggestion of which priority to tackle during that time. If one of your tasks does not get done, Focuster automatically reschedules this task to your calendar until it is complete. The Activity Bar lets you track your progress as you move through your day, and alerts you if you have too many things scheduled in one day. Review: Focuster makes it easy to plan out your day by integrating your tasks and calendar. Automatic scheduling helps you save time working on your to do list, and reminders sent throughout the day help keep you on track. Despite its ability to help you focus throughout the day, a lack of mobile capability and a relatively high cost makes this software a hard sell compared to other to do list applications. Focuster syncs up with your Google Calendar account to combine your to do list and calendar appointments. To start scheduling, you add tasks to the main to do list with due dates, tags for organization, and an estimated time for completion. After making a master to do list, you can then choose tasks that need to get done today. You can either drag and drop these from your master list of tasks or create brand new tasks. Focuster automatically adds these daily tasks to your calendar, scheduling them around existing appointments and making sure you do not work into the evening. After you set up your to do list, you can focus on getting work done and rely on Focuster's notifications to let you know which tasks you should be working on. You can check off tasks once you finish them, and if you do not finish a task, Focuster automatically reschedules it for later in the day or on a different day. If you finish all of your daily tasks, the software automatically inputs other tasks from your master list that you can get done in the time you have available. Although you can view your tasks using your calendar app on your mobile device, Focuster does not have its own standalone app. This makes it hard to create tasks and set up your day unless you are at your desktop.