Well designed, elegant, stable app – Firetask - Project-oriented GTD Task Management for iPhone Review

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.
Review by Chris Vickio on Firetask - Project-oriented GTD Task Management for iPhone.