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If you are like me, you have been wait­ing for quite a while now for the iPhone ver­sion of the GDT man­ager The Hit List. Even though a screen­shot of the iPhone app has sur­faced on Flickr in late Decem­ber, I decided to find another way of tak­ing my tasks with me on the iPhone until the mobile ver­sion is released. With 2Do, a beau­ti­ful task man­age­ment app from Guid­ed­Ways, and iCal that is now possible.

I did a com­pre­hen­sive review of 2Do which you can find at iPhone.appstorm.net, the new site for iPhone app reviews. You can read up on the app in detail there. Build­ing on that, I’ll show you how you can take your tasks from the The Hit List with you on your iPhone in con­junc­tion with 2Do.

Set up iCal

Before you can prop­erly sync with The Hit List, you need to set up cal­en­dars in iCal. Depend­ing on your work­flow, you will have sep­a­rate cal­en­dars for indi­vid­ual projects, clients or work areas. What­ever works fine for you is ok. Just keep in mind that your iCal struc­ture should in some way relate to your THL structure.

Set up The Hit List

Depend­ing on your per­sonal work­flow, you’ll man­age your tasks in fold­ers, lists or smart fold­ers. In addi­tion, tasks and con­texts can help you refine your work­flow. I will not go into detail about any GTD method; if you’re using THL you’ll know your way around.

Go to the pref­er­ences of The Hit List and select the ‘iCal Sync’ option. Make sure that you check the check­mark box for the option ‘Sync with the sys­tem cal­en­dar’.

Then select the cal­en­dar you want to sync tasks to on the left side of the pref­er­ences win­dow. Only then you can pick either tags or lists on the right side of the win­dow to sync with. Again, which option you choose depends on your own way of working.

Tasks to go with 2Do

Once you got your tasks synced with iCal, and you have down­loaded 2Do to your iPhone, down­load and install the Mac Sync Helper.

When you are on the same WiFi net­work — and this ONLY works if your Mac (hope­fully for your Win users soon the PC as well) and your iPhone are on the same wire­less net­work — ini­ti­ate the sync from your mobile app.

You have to pair the apps first by select­ing the Sync option within 2Do and then tap­ping ‘Com­put­ers’ in the top left cor­ner. All avail­able com­put­ers with the ToDo Helper installed will be shown. Select one and fol­low the pair­ing instruc­tions. After you are done, sim­ply sync.

Voilà, there you go! Your THL tasks on the iPhone! Enjoy!