Funny, considering that i work with computers all day. But it looks like i'm not alone. There's an emerging trend of people who want all the reminders and organization that a traditional calendaring/todo system can give you, but without the overhead and burden of actually having to deal with filling it out. Enter text-based computing and natural language processing. A number of (for now) free offerings allow you to just type (web), text (sms), or say (phone) what you want, using natural speech ("Lunch with Luann tomorrow afternoon"), and it generates your calendar for you, and will even send you reminders (via phone/sms/email) when its time to do something.

Here are a few quotes from the article:

The problem with to-do lists and schedules is that you need to fill them out.

Most organizational systems break your flow. They try to make you do something else for a moment [add a calendar entry, todo, etc..], and then you can go back to whatever you were doing in the first place.

For two decades, software has been dominated by graphical user interfaces, which employ visual features like windows and icons to convey information. ... The command line is making a comeback--and increasingly, natural-language processing is bringing the ease and simplicity of text-based computing to the non-tech-savvy.

There are going to be more and more applications which are less monolithic screens, and more dashing off quick missives.