No, I’m not talking about the feeling you get when you install Office 2008 for Mac and realize the new excel is worse than it was in the 90’s and you can no longer get any work done.  I’m talking about a new FREE (yes FREE) application I’ve discovered called Anxiety.  If you are overloaded and inundated with tasks in iCal, and need a way to keep that list in front of you at all times so you don’t miss a beat, and really just need to work through a detailed checklist to get through your day, then this is the app for you.

If you operate on a split screen (like me, laptop on one side, monitor on other), it’s a bit more convenient.  Anxiety provides a small partially transparent window on your screen, that stays on top at all times.  You can display any calendar you’d like.  So if you have tasks on multiple calendars, you can flip between the different calendars with ease.  Once you check off a task, it turns green, blinks and then softly disappears (actually displacing your anxiety with a nice finishing touch).  Explaining this app doesn’t fully do it justice, so I invite you all to give it a try on your own.  I’m personally addicted, and my anxiety is now at a controllable level… sigh.