“If you spend most of your time in OpenOffice.org, you might
want to be able to manage to-do lists and tasks without leaving the
comfort of the office suite. Since Writer doesn’t have such a
feature, you can create your own no-frills task tool and at the
same time sharpen your OOoBasic skills.“In a previous article, we covered how to build a handy basket
tool. You can use the same techniques when creating a simple task
manager. The one we’ll build offers only three basic commands: add
a task, view all tasks, and purge tasks…”