Between running a business, going to college, and being a D1 athlete, I have a lot to do in very little time. I've developed what I think is a simple and very effective system. If I want a high level view of deadlines, I click on a calendar button in my menu bar and see a red dot on every day something is due. I hover over it for details. I can also click a tasks button on my menubar which is google tasks synced with my iPhone. When I think of something to add to it, I can just type it into my phone and see it on the list later.<p>To set this up:<p><a href="http://fluidapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://fluidapp.com/</a> for pinning webpages to the menubar (~$5 to buy the version that pins to the menubar). In this case, this is "<a href="https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig" rel="nofollow">https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig</a><p>GeeTasks app for iPhone.<p>Calendar app for Mac.