Firetask - Project-oriented GTD Task Management for iPhone Reviews

No Priority Sorting!

Taskmaster3000

This would be my productivity app of choice if it allowed you to sort by priority. I tried to reach out to the developer but to no avail.

After looking long and hard...

ctt1wbw

...this is now my app of choice between the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Has great OTA sync, which Things doesn't have yet, seems to be more user oriented, unlike Omnifocus and looks as beautiful as both of them. So far I'm a happy camper. I love the fact that you can mark a task as "in progress" too instead of just completed.

The Ultimate Sync between Apple Devices!

Tyler Santos

I just got this product and LOVE it. I now have the Mac version and the iPad version as well. As a student, switching between my devices is constant among all my work and to-dos. So having a device that syncs my to-dos and organized by class allows me to see what I need to do in the most efficient manner. I highly recommend this to students! It even uses 'badges' to notify you of events due that day that are not completed. A nice feature that encourages users (especially myself) to clean up their app screen by doing the tasks they need to do! A procrastinators worst nightmare! I am extremely satisfied with this app and service. I am excited for future updates and features. One wish: iCloud syncing, instead of FireTask's cloud syncing. This could be more automatic and utilize Apple's already existent and very efficient offer than the proprietary way that Firetask uses now. Overall: I recommend this app to anyone looking for a to-do app.

Well designed, elegant, stable app

Chris Vickio

I've been looking for this app for a long time. I've used a number of other GTD style task management apps, some popular, some not so much. I used Things for about a year, but it had a major flaw that did not work with my workflow. This app is well designed, elegant, stable, and most importantly it has a workflow I like. That last thing is tricky, because everyone has different needs when it comes to complex task management. I can't say for sure if it will work for, but for me it's perfect. I usually have 10-20 open projects ("projects" in the GTD sense). I can sort them manually and see the next task for each of these projects with my manual sorting retained. I can also set due dates and flag items so that they appear in the Today tab even if they aren't the next task for a project. In keeping with typical GTD workflows, there is an inbox list (In-Tray) and a Someday list, both of which I use frequently. Categories could be used like GTD contexts, but I don't use it that way since contexts are not important for my workflow. I just use categories to set the icon for tasks and projects to help me visualize what type of task or project they are. Tasks can also have priority, but priority does not affect sort order. Some people have criticized the app for this, but I don't use the priority feature often so it's not been an issue for me. There is an iPad and Mac app that go along with this iPhone app and sync via a proprietary cloud service. I am not using either of the other apps at this point. I just do everything on the iPhone. The interface is comfortable enough for me that even with large lists of projects and tasks I can manage it. An app's quality is something that can be hard to determine from screenshots alone, but I feel like after about 20 seconds using an app, you can tell if it's good or not. This app is good. For an app that I use a lot every day, I need something responsive, stable, and pleasant to look at. Firetask does it for me. I started using this app several weeks ago. This latest update was not major, but it was a nice incremental update. The tabs are ordered more logically and the project and category views have a dark background to help differentiate them from the task lists. Overall, it's a good update. Glad to see that development is active. Hint: If you want to find out if the Firetask workflow will work for you, you can download a free trial of the Mac app from the Firetask web site and play around with it. I did this before purchasing the iPhone app. The features and functionality are the same, it's just a different interface.

Good app~

Bad Watch

Like it~

good

Perdue Lu

good

Great, but...

velgor

This is a great task manager, but the one thing that's stopping me from using it full time is the glacial and crash-prone syncing. Other apps employing iCloud are extremely fast and seamless when syncing, and are more stable when doing so.

Great app but needs many improvements

ebassily

This is a well thought of app with a well-polished interface. However, for it to be efficient and have an edge over its competitors, like Omni Focus, it needs urgently to provide automatic wireless syncing with the cloud every time the user changes/adds a task. Requiring the user to manually tap the sync button in order to update the database is cumbersome and inconvenient. Thanks

Great app but sync needs work

jppastore

Fantastic GTD app! My favorite yet accept it lacks the auto-syncing that so many other apps have. Remember The Milk has mastered this. Upon changing or adding a task, it auto-syncs in the background. No moving to another page, pressing Sync and waiting 15 seconds for it to complete. RTM also pushes badge updates. Another great feature. When Firetask incorporates theses changes, it will be king among GTD apps.

Great Start

AJ Mac25

I have The Hit List and Things but each has its problems. OmniFocus was my next step but seemed too confusing and I have little time to learn a new GTD app. I jumped in with FireTask and have been pleased. Easy to use and looks great. Sync is stable but I still have one issue with trying to sync behind a firewall. Customer service has been great and responsive. I would like to be able to use more than one category/tag for a task. And once auto sync is perfected, I think this will be a great app. Keep up the great work.

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