Sort of a poll: What is your favorite task manager/to do app?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 29, 2019 at 10:37 PM

Thanks, Paul. That answers part of what I was trying to learn. Just to be clearer—if that’s possible—I am wondering about the flexibility of dedicated GTD apps in general. Will they provide effective task management if you don’t subscribe whole heartedly to the GTD principle.

I am like you. I don’t need everything to be put into a GTD hopper and come out the other end with a neat list of tasks to do every day. (I am not disparaging that functionality. Everyone works differently.) In fact, feeling I HAVE to write it all down makes me anxious.

I like being able to build a list when necessary, one that’s detailed or not, depending on the project. Often I just write down the outcome I want instead of the steps leading to it. (For example, publish the newsletter by x date.) Mostly, though I want to associate resources with tasks—what Beck was talking about earlier. Documents, notes related to tasks. If Agenda had a Windows version, it would be ideal for me, I think.

But getting back to GTD, Everdo is a really attractive app. The separate notebooks really intrigued me, but as far as I was able to tell, you can’t associate the notes directly with tasks or projects. They seem to live independently.

Steve Z.

Paul Korm wrote:
I’m not sure what “scale” in the context of this question means, but
>OmniFocus 3 has dialed back it’s GTD emphases by eliminating “Contexts”
>and using “Tags” instead. I’ve never been a GTD person (the whole
>obsession with “productivity” does not appeal to me), but I’ve used
>OmniFocus in all its guises since it came to market. Mainly because it
>is quite flexible and reliable. Most of life doesn’t need a plan, but
>the bits that do can benefit from structure, which is what OF provides.
> >I don’t think that answers your question, though.
> >Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Question… both specific to Everdo, but also a general inquiry… how
>>does an app built specifically for the Getting Things Done method scale
>>for people who aren’t married to GTD? I’ve wondered this about
>OmniFocus
>>too.
>