Visual Epidemic

This first week of 60 posts seems to be a lot of planning posts, but at the beginning of the term planning can be a beneficial and time-saving thing. A few days ago I charted out how much of my thesis was  done. Like done-done – not needing to be reworked done – and it was much less than I had thought.

To keep track of all the different projects I have going this semester, I started using a program called Curio. It seems like a good overall program, although there are more powerful task-specific programs for tasks such as mind mapping, outlining, and task management. The strength of Curio is that you can do all of these things in the same program – and it also syncs with Evernote (which I already use a lot and love). Unfortunately, Curio has a steeper learning curve than the screenshots and pretty colors would lead you to believe – at least for keeping track of the status of completed tasks, which is the feature I am most interested in.

I will try to implement this program into my task planning this term and see how it goes. Another feature I am excited about trying is the full screen mode. When planning with students (in front of a class for a final project, for example), the program can be a great visual way of planning together. Going full screen may be interesting for other teaching tasks, as well.

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