iGTD Review: My Saviour

TUAW beat me to the punch, but I’m happy to report that I have finally found the GTD app that I plan to stick with for a good long while now. iGTD has all of the features that I need and none that I don’t want. It’s got the fun of Actiontastic’s Quicksilver integration, the GTD mindset of Midnight Inbox, the multiple views of Easy Task Manager, and it doesn’t look too shabby either…

It took me about 30 seconds to sync from Easy Task Manager (my previous GTD app of choice) to iCal and import it right into iGTD. I had to manually assign projects to all of my tasks, which took a bit, but was worth it in the end. When iGTD syncs with iCal, it adds a project tag to the end of the task so your more obscure notes still make sense. I did miss having both my contexts and projects available in one pane for dragging and dropping to, but quickly learned to live without.

The Quicksilver plugin that comes with iGTD allows you to assign a context and project right in the string you send it, including the ability to “figure out” what you meant from a partial context or project. Each task can have associated links and notes, which are properly imported and exported. This means you can create todo items from MailTags or copy URL’s from your email messages right into a task. Nothing brand new, but a feature I wouldn’t want to live without. It can even open the links directly from a small icon in the task list for tasks that have links.

Priorities can be set, sorted by and filtered for each project with a simple, ratings-style interface. The filter seems to be the only bug I can find so far, and it’s secondary to the ability to sort. It will be nice to have it working, though.

What I adore, though, is that there’s a “To Complete” view that lets you see all of your upcoming tasks from all contexts and projects at once. You can then filter by flagged items (next actions), “waiting for” items, and “maybe/someday” tasks. You can further filter out inactive projects and sort the list by any of the columns.

There’s a review function that will page through the tasks on the page and let you reassign their project, context or priority using keyboard shortcuts. You can flip through a project\context pretty quickly this way, and it’s pretty handy. I find myself doing this manually anyway, but I think once I get used to the feature I’ll use it more often.

Overall, I’m ecstatic about this release. It’s donationware and you can bet your bottom dollar I’ll be making a donation in the hopes that this already-great software continues to improve.