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Life Balance attempts to be a todo list for your life. It breaks out from traditional outliners and list managers principally because it includes the concepts of “Effort” and “Importance,” helping you rate which things have more importance in your life, and which things require more effort to see to completion.

Life Balance also has excellent support for recurring tasks, both traditional daily, weekly, monthy tasks but also its novel “Routinely” recurring tasks, which happen regularly, but not necessarily at regular intervals. For example, “Do Laundry” doesn’t need done once every four days, but it does require a minumum of four days between occurrences.

Life Balance also has wonderful support for the GTD construct of “Context,” called “Places” in LB. Tasks have one or more places where they can be done, and the tasks will be hidden based on your current “place.” Places can be nested, and even given open hours so that they will hide and show based on the current time.

For a while Life Balance was the way I implemented Getting Things Done (GTD) (tm). However, I tired of the lengths that the weekly review was taking, as well as all of the metadata required to have Life Balance do all the cool things that it does. Eventually, I switched to a paper-based planner and haven’t looked back.

Life Balance is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Palm. In a previous life it was available for the Newton.