Plan in a systematic way with taskList for iPhone:taskList Review
filed in Ecosystem iOS, Productivity Management, To Do List, User Experience on Sep.05, 2010
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
- Time Specific
- Location Specific
- 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.
