What happens is that we have a to do list that

• looks beautiful and elegant
• works on the Mac, Web, Windows, iPhone/iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone
• simple tasking nothing complex

What I like about Wunderlist is that I do not have to worry about migrating to another platform. Based on my experience with WAToDo! is that if the to do list have a set of generic functionality and looks awesome, people will have time for it.

But what I do not like is that it is just too simple. As a GTD user, I can’t really do much with it.

It turns out that Wunderlist is a test platform for Wunderkinder to each critical mass, as well as to test their idea for the money making app that they intend to release.

What we do know that the open beta of their new task management app Wunderkit will be releasing in early February.

We were updated that they intend to release their web task management platform before releasing for other platforms.

How good do we think it will be?

For one thing it does look very awesome like Wunderlist. And it does have a social element to it. Lets see what we can derive from the very little released

1. Eventually it will be ubiquitous (on many platforms). This means that you can go ahead and buy another platform smartphone without worrying you cannot manage your tasks
2. A separation of notes and tasks seem to indicate that you can clip or take down notes in a manner not like most to do app. Perhaps rich text format?
3. Collaboration through social means. It would seem you can follow your friends or interesting people and build to do list together
4. Inbox concept
5. Priority through starring
6. Repeating and recurring tasks
7. Sub-tasking
8. Single level project

This looks really promising. However, I do see tagging missing. What would really complete it is a good search engine and tagging. I am sure then a lot of people will play around with it.

Advance to do folks like me would love it because we can tinker to match our work flow. As long as you provide

1. Task Description, Notes, Due Date, Status
2. Repeating or Recurring Tasks
3. Sub-tasking or parent child concept
4. Tagging
5. Extensible API
6. Ubiquitous

A lot of advance folks can make it work.

What would really break it for me

For me, Wunderkinder could succeed but could fail as well. They do have a lot of people to learn from

1. The pricing model needs to offer a good freenium that most users can use. Evernote took off in such a way because they went the alternative route to make their base app and smartphone app so usable you do not have to pay for it. Only people who are really attached to it will pay for it. True enough at the end a lot of people grew attached to it because it became their brain.
2. They need to make it a platform. They need to offer ways people can extend it.
3. A search engined and saved search looks very important the more I think about it. What made Evernote and Remember the milk great was the way search can be carried out and saved.
4. It needs to look great and simple for folks looking for a simple list.
5. The smartphone applications must be well invested. Meaning they shouldn’t suck! We have seen so many examples where the main app is great but the rest doesn’t add up. For example I don’t want to see a case where they offer subtasking but on the Android because of api limitation they cannot offer that. It’s a fail for me.
6. It needs adequate funding. Without knowing that this cloud is going to be around for some time not many will adopt it.

We certainly can keep our fingers cross. But personally I do not have high hopes for it.

The topic that Productive Organizer talks about more so then others are task management. In fact I even have a whole set of tutorials to carry out task management the Getting Things Done way (see here)

The problem is that there isn’t much tutorial taught in school how to manage your to do list (amongst other things like finances and keeping healthy)

The Wall Street Journal have a great article today talking about why people don’t complete their tasks.

Among the different problems faced are such

• Kat Nagel, a technical-communications consultant in Rochester, N.Y., used to let her to-do list balloon to 14 pages and "it was never up-to-date," once causing her to miss a project deadline
• Kris Paige, a veterinary technician, used to keep her to-dos on sticky notes, "but the glue failed,"
• Kim Bauer’s long paper lists of all the tasks and goals she hopes to accomplish sometimes "get completely out of hand," says the Vancouver, Wash., writer

The problem with not managing well normally boils down to

1. You do not collect everything in your head outside. You don’t always have your list. When you want to write down you forgot them already
2. Your list is so jumble up that you do not know which one to do first
3. Your tasks are not well describe and are so big that you do not know how to start!
4. When you are at the place you want to do something you don’t have your list with you
5. Your tasks are too vague!
6. You don’t trust your list at all!

Why I advocate Getting Things Done is because I believe it address all these issues. It is not a fad but an education of how you can manage tasks and calendaring.

The smartphone and web is probably the best thing that happen to task management.You can now collect tasks wherever you are because you always have your cell phones (unless like me you work in a situation where you cannot bring camera devices haha)

Do read my Getting things Done Tutorial or To do list review on the side bar

There are more helpful thoughts from experts in the wall street article so do read it as well.

What is your greatest problem with task management?

The first item on a highly successful to-do list: Make a better to-do list.

With the new year comes the urge to accomplish all the things that were meant to be done the year before, and it often starts with long to-do lists. The lists themselves can fuel anxiety, says Sasha Cagen, an Oakland, Calif., life coach and author of a book on to-do lists. She sees many new clients at this time of year and often advises them to put more tasks on their list that they genuinely enjoy. Some 23% of list-makers spend more time making the lists than doing the tasks on them, according to a 2006 online survey of 600 people conducted by Ms. Cagen.

There are, of course, all kinds of ways to stay on top of tasks. Some people like the tactile experience of hand written to-do lists on paper, embellished with doodles or designs. Others think more clearly when they type, sort and store tasks in computers, tablets or smartphones, and they like the mobility of programs that update lists on all their devices.

Even with so many methods, it is still easy to muck up list making. Kat Nagel, a technical-communications consultant in Rochester, N.Y., used to let her to-do list balloon to 14 pages and "it was never up-to-date," once causing her to miss a project deadline. Ran Barton, an operations analyst in Wilmington, Del., wrote his to-dos on pieces of paper—which he sometimes lost.

Kris Paige, a veterinary technician, used to keep her to-dos on sticky notes, "but the glue failed," she says. She started writing up to 20 tasks on her bathroom mirror in dry-erase marker so she would be sure to see them, but the method sometimes caused embarrassment when she forgot to erase the list before visitors arrived. Using a digital app to enter tasks in her phone and computer reduced the mirror list to two items, says Ms. Paige, who owns a Livermore, Colo., llama ranch.

Kim Bauer’s long paper lists of all the tasks and goals she hopes to accomplish sometimes "get completely out of hand," says the Vancouver, Wash., writer. Rewriting and prioritizing them becomes an excuse to procrastinate. Now, she forces herself to condense them into a single, more realistic list, and it "makes me feel more organized."

A well-maintained list is "an essential tool for staying grounded, for saving your energy and for doing things rather than trying to remember what to do," says Julie Morgenstern, a New York author and expert on time management.

Effective to-do lists are limited to specific tasks that can be tackled right away and finished fairly soon, Ms. Morgenstern says. Instead of listing "solve client issue," write, "spend one hour defining the scope of client problem."

A list should reflect a time estimate needed for each task. And it should be integrated into a calendar or schedule, to avoid "planning 17 things for tomorrow which, if you added them up, are going to take 20 hours," Ms. Morgenstern says.

There are strategies for tackling dreaded tasks as well. Ms. Morgenstern tells of a computer consultant who was energized by appointments with clients, but stalled with administrative tasks like paying bills, writing proposals or planning strategy. She suggested he assign start and end times to mundane tasks as if they were appointments, and break them up with activities requiring contact with people. The new approach stopped his procrastinating.

To prevent getting mired in mindless make-work, some software helps people measure tasks against broad life goals. Ms. Nagel, the Rochester consultant, uses Life Balance by Llamagraphics. The software has her start with a master list of goals, such as doing fulfilling and financially rewarding work and volunteering for community causes. These are prioritized and broken into tasks, with details about the time and effort required and where and when they must be done.

Using this data, the app assigns eight to 12 items to Ms. Nagel’s to-do list. She hasn’t missed a deadline since she starting using the software, which has helped her shift plans to balance work demands, singing in a choir and volunteering at a food bank.

[Full article @ WSJ]

What is great about it is that it has an API that allows many iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android and WebOS applications from synchronizing their tasks to this platform.

It is free to use although I recommend you give its Pro account a try as it is only USD 12 per year

The one thing that I do not understand is why for such a flexible to do list, it looks so bad. The interface looks cartoonish and the people that use to-do list for management are more professionals who would prefer a more functional interface that is cleaner.

The folks over there finally did a redesign of their web application and suffice to say I like this tone down neutral color theme.

The changes are mostly aesthetic how ever I really appreiciate a lot of re-organization changes

View By List to the Sidebar

This section is more cleaner and well placed. It enables the user to change the view to quickly review by lists,due-date or tags.

Most people will like this sidebar compare to the old one.

Dropdown Sorting Bar

Filter gets separated from other functionalities.

The main user interface is now less cluttered. You can see how you can sort your current view list.

At the next part you can see whether you want to see the details or not.

How has this new Toodledo interface been for you?

One of the most popular category of app on the smartphone devices are To Do list applications. It is no secret why they are so in demand since

• most users have their phones with them just like their wallet
• with that, they are able to collect new tasks and review which tasks to carry out

Developers on the iOS have come up with great todo apps and in the process many of the most popular ones such as Omnifocus, Things, Toodledo and Appigo ToDo advocates users to use David Allen’s Getting Things Done to make sense of task management.

In a certain sense, Getting Things Done puts you in the role as the project manager and your job is to ensure the completion of many mini projects.

These apps work great for most people but for folks who does project management as a profession or plan projects at work, it may be lacking.

Some of the reasons why this is so:

• Projects managed typically defined by a start date and end date. Not all GTD task list does that.
• Projects can have infinite level of sub projects as defined by more granular milestones. Only Actionlists on the iPhone and iPad does this.
• Milestones affect main projects start and due date and they would have to adjust accordingly.
• Manpower resources needs to be allocated to tasks.
• Most todo list is not made for extensive review. Project management involves alot of review, adjusting start and due date and quick inputs. GTD todo list do not provide a eagle eye view on milestones and tasks to do that effectively.
• Most GTD task app syncs to the cloud but for most project managers they still use MS Project.

Being a project lead in software and system maintenance, I do acknowledge that task management app are found lacking in these area.

That is where SG Project comes in. The folks at SG Project came up with a very comprehensive management app for the iPad platform to carry out project management.

What SG Project does

To be honest I am astounded why there aren’t alot of third party developers who would tale advantage of the large screen size to create such a planning app.

SG Project comes in 2 versions SG Project Pro and SG Project 2.

SG Project Pro costs USD 39.90 and is made up of SG Project 2 (USD 9.99), SG Action Log(USD 5.99) and SG Risk Log(USD 5.99)

SG Project 2 is the task planning gantt chart review portion of SG Project Pro. My initial thought is that this is what i need only so if you want an app that can help you review big projects like how you would do it in MS Project then buying SG Project 2 could be enough.

SG Project Pro is able to do the following

Manage projects and sub projects

At the bare minimum, a project management app should allow the user to create milestones and sub milestones to it. SG Project does a Good job with that as you can freely indent and outdent your tasks.

Group tasks as their milestones or projects and have a clear overview

Easily reorder and delete tasks and projects

Specify greater detail for each task. This includes

1. Start Date
2. End Date
3. Duration
4. Notes
5. SG Project Risks
6. SG Project Action Items
7. Owner
8. Predecessors

Indent and Outdent, or add new tasks easily in the main task planning screen

Easily change the duration of each tasks or project on the main task planning screen

Easily complete tasks on the main task planning screen

Create dependencies for tasks constraint by other tasks

Set Predecessors so that tasks with dependency can be linked

Coloring and Predecessors enables user to view which tasks are constrain to only start after certain tasks.

Review in Gantt Chart

These nested task will be presented in Gantt chart format which can be maximized or minimized with a button.

You can move the timeline, that is, your start date of these tasks by dragging the task activity bar on the Gantt chart.

I find that the best view to review your Gantt chart is on a landscape view because you would be able to view more task details such as dependency, completion and manipulated them there and then instead of navigating within each task to carry them out.

Attach manpower to tasks

Often that is not provided in most To Do List app is assigning owners to the task or delegation.

SG Project allows you to assign a single owner to it

SG Risk Log Pro

Risk Log Pro enables you to create, manage the risk asscoiated with the project so that owners take a reponsibility in how they are handled.

It allows you to

• Document multiple risks for each project
• Set an Owner and Due Date for each risk
• Categorize risks into 4 main risk management strategies
• Quantify by assigning likelihood and severity values to each risk
• Sort and Filter the risk list for a project
• Maintain an organized history of notes for each risk
• Export a risk report to PDF and email from directly within the app

SG Action Log Pro

To be honest, I don’t really get the main difference between an action item and a task. I suppose if you use the concept of Milestones and Action Items, this will work well because Action Log will be linked to the milestones created in SG Project Pro

• Document multiple action items for each project
• Set an Owner and Due Date for each action item
• Set the state of each action item to move through a simple lifecycle
• Quantify by assigning a priority value to each action item
• Categorize action items into up to 10 custom-named groups
• Sort and Filter the action item list for a project
• View compressed view of the items using a pinch gesture
• Maintain an organized history of notes for each action item
• Export an action item report to PDF and email from directly within the app

Where SG Project Pro didn’t do so well

Duplicating tasks

We wish that duo locating tasks is easier as in the course of preparing this example I have numerous tasks that I would need to do that.

Collapsing tasks and milestones

All tasks are expanded and when reviewing, you really wish that you can collapse the tasks to view them on a high level

Limited colors to choose from

It would be better if they have more color tagging choices as for bigger projects these colors can easily run out.

Exporting to MS Project XML

Instead of exporting to a native ms project XML format, the app only allows you to export to ms project XML. The limitation is transiting between windows desktop and iPad will be a problem since most people do not save their document in XML.

Conclusion

SG Project comes across as a competent iPad app. This is the first iPad project management app reviewed and certainly I can envision myself managing tasks with a defined start and end date instead of processes on it.

The ability to review and see dependency not to mention delegation are pluses.

My gripe about it is that there are occasional crashes that is irritating me which I hope can be ironed lout in future releases.

Read my Getting Things Done series today!

Now at WATODO! we are trying to integrate with Toodledo. Why we choose Toodledo is because they provide us with a very nice and comprehensive API. Toodledo strives to be very extensive in what you can do with tasking, be it nesting, repeating and scheduling.

But what a lot of people yearns for is for Google to really focus on making their Google Tasks great. Google finally listen to what we want and started taking in view and opinions of what we want for Google Tasks.

on May 11,2011, Google released their Google Tasks API. The question is whether this will be better than Toodledo.

I will have to do some exploring and my start a new project on this.

The API is available in Labs and can be activated for your project through the API Console. Get started today by trying the Tasks API yourself using the API Explorer and taking a look at the documentation.

Here is a must see videos gotten off DidIGetThingsDone.com talking about why he likes OmniFocus and how he uses the perspective aspect of it.

Tricking-out Your OmniFocus Perspectives from The Omni Group on Vimeo.

If you are into task management, you should watch this!

Ever forgotten something important?

Ever wondered how highly successful people manage their time?

Ever wished you had more quality time to spend with your family?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above, read on. I hope these short educational tips will help you get control and ahead in your life.

Before beginning, I know that most of you will have this sense of procrastination of change. It is perfectly normal to feel that inertia in changing the way we currently do things or that the technique below may not work for all.

But tell you what, spend the next few minutes reading to the end and if you feel like it made some impact on you, give it a shot, it cost nothing and you got nothing to lose. If things don’t quite work for you, you can always revert to what you are doing currently.

The 10 steps are as follows:

Step 1: Jot down everything you wish to do or need to do that comes to mind at that moment

Ideally if you have a PDA or smart phone (a device which you carry around all the time) with a to-do list application or program similar to outlook, jot down the task that comes to mind immediately.

Alternatively the pen and paper would work too though not as inefficient.

Let’s call this list of things the ‘inbox’. A task could be as simple as “pick up milk on way home” or as complex as “design a management information system for client by end June”.

There are two kinds of items you should jot down.  The first is an action task.  These are task where you have a known solution or course of action to perform.  It should be written in a clear, concise and most of all actionable manner.  The second is an idea.  Pen down any thoughts or ideas you may have.  Use this opportunity to collate them and not let your creative spark be forgotten and go to waste.

Step 2: Clear the inbox

Either at the end of each day or at the start of the next day, go through your ‘inbox’ to categorize and sort all the items there.  The key idea is to place similar items together and rank its importance.  I’ll go through some concepts next.  From this stage on, you will likely need some form of an electronic organizer, outlook or to-do list application.

Step 3: Importance and Urgency

For each item, mark it with two properties, degree of priority/importance and whether it is time bound (has a due date or no due date).

We may have many tasks to do each day and by using the above, we can prioritize and focus on the high priority and urgent tasks first.  It helps us form a clear picture of what is really important (a necessity) versus what is a good to have (a want).

Step 4: Moving it to the right list

All tasks from the inbox should be moved into pre-defined lists that you have previously created to categorize them.  A tip is not to create too many of these category lists else it defeats the purpose of consolidating similar or related tasks.  An example of such pre-defined category lists could be “Personal”, “Investment”, “Job”, “Family” and “Someday”.

You might be wondering what the “Someday’ list is.  Basically for me, this list stores all my long term goal, wants and good to haves.  For instance, “learn to play golf”.  Collect all the things you eventually want to do here but currently have no clear deadline or requirement to get it done but hope to accomplish it someday.

Step 5: Tagging

Tagging simply means to use one or several words to be used as properties of the task.  It is an added dimension to group similar tasks together.

Let me illustrate, for instance, I usually tag a location with a task.  Say using the tag ‘mall’.  All my tasks which can be performed at the mall (e.g. “buy present for anniversary”, “pick up dry-cleaning”, “purchase garden hose” and “get 2 packs of dog food”) will have this tag.

Optimally if your to-do list has this search function, you can easily do a search on the tags to pull up all the tasks you can accomplish at the mall.  These may include tasks which you may not have planned for the day but for convenience you might want to clear the task now anyway.  Even if your application does not have this feature, you can manually scroll for these tags to aid yourself in consolidating similar tasks.  That way if you can accomplish them together, you free up more of our time in future.

Step 6: For a large complex task, use sub-tasking

Some task are rather complex and may require several steps in completing it.  If that is the case, you should create sub-tasks under this main task, detailing the small steps required.

Let me illustrate with a simple example, let’s say my task was to “arrange meeting for shareholders”.  I might have to do the following steps to accomplish this such as “check shareholder calendar to select meeting date and send invite”, “collect responses”, “book a conference room” and “order refreshments”.

As you may have noticed, I may not be able to finish the main task in a day depending on shareholders responses to the invite, but with sub-tasking, at least I know the task is moving along (i.e. something has been done) and I can come back to it later.

Sub-tasking is ideal for project management; it lets you keep track of what is due, what is outstanding and what is required for successful completion.  It also allows you to add additional task you might think of along the way that would aid in the main task’s successful completion.

Step 7: Create list for things to do today

Scan through your pre-defined category lists each day and determine what you want or can accomplish today.  Move these to your to do list for the day.  If your to-do list application supports due dates, those tasks due that day would have already been pre-populated for you.  You can also make use of tags to search for similar tasks you can accomplish in the same day.

As you scan your lists, make sure to delete any tasks that are redundant or no longer valid. Your list for the day may be lengthy and you may not have the time to get through all, but remember the two task properties mentioned in step 3.  Use this to determine which ones to handle first.  The remaining items can be completed another day.

Step 8: GTD (David Allen’s Getting Things Done) “two-minute rule”

Every time you read a task from your list or come to mind a task which can be performed in less than two minutes at that location and time, immediately, just do it!

Step 9: Keeping track of what is done

As you might have guessed, your completed tasks stays in your device’s memory provided you don’t delete it.  You can always pull up a record of what was done in the past.  This I feel not only serves as a diary of events but it also lets you record what worked in the past and what doesn’t.  For instance, if you had a complex task, say a project before, and the sub-tasks in it led to a successful completion, you can use them as a guide for your new project’s sub-tasks.

Looking through your completed records also serves as reminder for recurring events.  For instance, you may need to service your car every 6 months.  If your to-do list application had a recurrence event function, that task would have been created for you automatically.   Otherwise, you can always add this manually when reviewing my previous completed tasks.

Step 10: The psychological and time benefits

Free your mind; focus on the doing rather than spending effort remembering the things to do.  By adopting this organized approach, you will have one less worry in life about forgetting things that matter.  Furthermore, for me personally, I get a sense of satisfaction each time I strike off an item and at the end of the day when reviewing what I had accomplished.

Though it may seem like a daunting exercise initially, but once you get used to it, you will realize that the simple 15 minute exercise each day of clearing your inbox and building a list for the day will reap you much more time saving benefits later.  I have adopted this approach and not only am I getting more things done, I have more time for my family and leisure.

That’s it! Give it a go!

I wish you all the best in getting more productivity, having more control in your life and most importantly having more fun with your time! – Cheers

If you have an Android enabled phone and want to jump straight in at applying the above, have a look at the to-do list application I have developed below.  It is built with the above concepts in mind.

Note that though the concepts above relate to David Allen’s Getting Things Done methods, I am in no way associated with it, but I highly recommend you have a read of his book.

Another book I would recommend is Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

I am always a fan of task management that can be customized as close to your own workflow as possible which is why I really like Remember the milk, which is a very extensive web to do list that is available on the iPhone and Android smartphone as well.

One of the main advantage is that you can create Smart Lists based on search criteria and in this tip from a reader having a list of tasks you do at a certain location and at a certain time intensity is very good:

Having so many things to do, sometimes it’s so easy to get overwhelmed even when you’re organized with RTM! Even if those things take only a few minutes to do, they feel like mountains.

So, I find that if I can just do one or two things, then I will feel like I accomplished something. Even better, I could get the energy to do even more on my list.

I created a smartlist called “Today’s Quickies” which are any tasks that are due today and take less than 5 minutes to do. I used these parameters:

dueWithin:”1 day of today” and timeEstimate:”< 5 min”

It’s a great way to see all those little things that you can do and be done with!

What a great tip!

Interested to know more about Getting Things Done with mobile applications on the iPhone and Android? Take a look at our Getting Things Done series on step by step guides to apply GTD in everyday life.

We are on a spree here when it comes to task management application. So shortly after Nubi Do here, we have taskList.

taskList in itself is a unique task management experience. It does not turn you off but you sort of have the feeling that it follows the system of how a unique individual will do things.

Price

USD 1.99. This for me is at the low range section for iOS applications and specifically as a task management application

How Many Levels of Hierarchical List/Projects

Like Nubi Do, taskList have only 1 level of Lists/Groups. They addressed it as groups which means you can group your tasks as these groups.

Can you specify GTD Contexts?

GTD folks would want to have categories to specify contexts or tags or classify them into

1. Time Specific
2. Location Specific
3. People Centric

In taskList , you can specifiy tags. Each task can have many tags. And during review you can select multiple tags to filter.

Can you specify recurring tasks?

No. This is the first task management application I reviewed in a long time that you are not able to do that. This is very disappointing.

Task Entry

In terms of task entry there is really not much that you need to key in.

You are limited to task descriptions, the group, contact who, info and notes as well as the due date

What I like as well is how easy it is to select the tags. very no bull shit and if you have drawn out a nice list of tags, you can touch them and select them and need not go to another screen.

At times we forget that we are busy people and minimizing the number of screen to traverse will help a lot.

Reviewing: A quick glance of what needs to be done

There is no Today, no Inbox, no Next Actions. But really what it excels in is being minimal and focusing on the core.

The core is that we do things based on certain contexts. And here you are able to quickly filter based on multiple tags.

You can quickly select whether if you want a union of tags or an intersection of tags.

Conclusion

I can fully understand where this application is coming from. As an individual you do not need a lot of functionality to be efficient you need to have a UI that focus on what is important.

This task manager chooses to center on the ease of reviewing by Contexts/Tags.

If you work well with Tagging things this application focus very much on that aspect. For me, I need my repeating tasks very much. Not having that is the greatest let down.

We have reviewed quite a fair bit of task management application here on Productive Organizer (Take a look at my sidebars for reference) and many of them are focused on Getting Things Done.

Nubi Do is somewhat unique in that they have been very early to this yet not used by many. We hope that this post changes your opinion about them.

Price

USD 4.99. This for me is at the mid range section for iOS applications and specifically as a task management application

Flexibility is the key here

Nubi Do prides itself to be a very flexible task management application. It is catered to not just folks who only wants a simple list app but also people who does intensive tracking and planning.

How Many Levels of Hierarchical List/Projects

The downside for Nubi Do is that it has only one level. So what this means is that you can only have lists and tasks in the lists.

Can you specify GTD Contexts?

GTD folks would want to have categories to specify contexts or tags or classify them into

1. Time Specific
2. Location Specific
3. People Centric

In Nubi Do you can make use of Contexts. Each task can only have 1 contexts.

If that is not enough, you can make use of tags. Each task can have more than 1 tags.

Can you specify recurring tasks?

Yes you can. Tasks can recur Every Day,Weeks, Months or Year or Every specific day of the week

Task Entry

Task Entry have been made very smooth as the user can always key in the description of the task and not bother about keying in everything about the task.

If you require to key in more details, you can touch the task and key in more details.

One thing that I don’t understand is the need to specifically Pin to either Today or Next. Pinning as Next I can understand, since u specify that this is next to do.

But pin it to Today? I can only guess that its to make this task something you need to do today, as a quick reference.

Reviewing: A quick glance of what needs to be done

The front page of the application presents to you what are the tasks overdue, what you need to do today and what is next upcoming.

You are then presented with an Inbox to do your processing. And should you are doing your weekly review, you have all your lists of projects here to perform your reviewing

Reviewing: Calendar due tasks

What Nubi do does that is different from competitors is that you get a calendar that you can view at quick glance what tasks are due on which date.

And this Calendar is presented even in the task entry portion when you select a due date to your task.

So you can for example see that it is suppose to be done by this date but there are too much tasks so I postpone it by one day.

I think this is an important feature that might go down very well with some people.

Reviewing:Context/Tags tasks

At every page you are able to at the touch of a button go into context and tag filtering mode.

You however, can only view tasks in one tag or context but not multiple.

Importing and Exporting

Nowadays, the default for task management apps is to sync to Toodledo or Outlook or iCal.

Nubi Do does is enable the user to Import/Export from Google Docs.

Google docs is a good medium to import and export but I think people are looking for a cloud based method of synchronization rather than a file based import and export.

Nevertheless file based import and export has its advantages. And personally for me, I do prefer file based import.

Other FEATURES:

■ Assign priorities and due dates.
■ Attach text notes.
■ Search tasks quickly with a live search.
■ Delete, move or email multiple tasks at a time.
■ Lock & passcode protect individual todo lists.
■ Full screen note viewer with data detection so you can enter linkable email addresses, web addresses and phone numbers.
■ Multiple color scheme options.

Conclusion

All in all, a very competent task management application. Would I switch over from 2Do? Probably not. The cost of switching and reseting my whole system is too much. If 2Do works for me I will stick with it.

The plus side is definitely the Calendar review and the downside, is the single level hierarchy of lists/projects

If you like it do grab it off the market place