Successful project-oriented task management has never been easier.ġ0. Firetask empowers project-minded people to get things done efficiently.ĩ. Simply use drag & drop to move tasks between statuses, categories, priorities, due, or start dates.Ĩ. Firetask is available on iPhone, iPad, macOS, and Apple Watch providing you with a seamless user experience across platforms.ħ. Firetask is also deeply integrated with the Apple ecosystem with optional integration with Reminders, Calendar events, Contacts, and syncing via iCloud.Ħ. Firetask comes with great, visual tools that help you with your weekly GTD review such as "Kanban" and "Dates" views.ĥ. Although tasks do not have to be part of a project, projects are first class business objects in Firetask: they have their own statuses, you can organize them via "portfolios" (project folders) and you have full control over the order of tasks in a project.Ĥ. From capturing your thoughts and managing your to-dos to organizing and focusing on your most important tasks, Firetask combines David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD®) approach with Kanban task management in a unique way.ģ. Firetask provides a very logical implementation of GTD in a way that concepts such as the "Inbox" or "Someday" are implemented as task statuses this way, categories (contexts) and project assignments can optionally be already associated within the Inbox and thus, making a task actionable only means changing its status to "Actionable".Ģ. Hm, not what I would call ‘a trusted sytem’.1. I had to ‘force quit’ but the app will not restart. Scrolling has also become slower as the list of tasks grew and just now the desktop app became non-responsive. I have now used firetask for a full three weeks and the synching errors have become more frequent. poor integration with email or evernote, no file attachments.several ways to review and reprioritise your tasks.You can download a 14-day trial version if you are interested in exploring this app further. The firetask desktop app costs $39.99, the iPad version $10.49 and the iPhone version $6.49. It beats omnifocus because it is so simple and intuitive to use and because its attractive user interface does not detract from a solid project management approach. I would also like to see a more comprehensive search function (at present, command + F lets you search within the active task list).įiretask has much of the look and feel of ‘things’ but, on the whole, is a stronger app in my view because of its superior date selection and more informative, less cluttered views. More significantly, once a due date has been set, it can be changed, but apparently not removed, not even by dragging the task into the ‘someday’ view. I have experienced a couple of minor bugs with wireless synching, with a task not being synched, or with a task deleted from the scratchboard ending up in the ‘today’ view after synching. The latter is still at beta stage and I have not tried it. Synching occurs via wifi and/or cloud synching. There is no capacity to attach a file to a task and no integration with email or evernote. The major weakness of firetask at this point is its lack of integration. The firetask 'organise' view this is where the in-tray trumps the scratchboard There is also an alternative view that shows you actions by due date. Like the desktop version, it gives you a clear overview of tasks that are due, well – today, as well as the next action for each of your active projects. The ‘today’ view below is the only screenshot from the iPad version in this review. Well, so far we are still in the honeymoon period. So, after a brief stint with the trial version, I decided to throw caution to the wind and to elope with firetask. I want to spend time in the app, and that is a feeling I haven’t had with omnifocus for a long time. It has been like a suitor in a jane austen novel: maybe not the most sensible and respectable choice, but irresistible because of its colour and freshness. While firetask is not perfect, it has almost done the unthinkable: prised me away from omnifocus. I have reviewed the mac desktop and the ipad apps (both version 2.2) there is no windows version. It has a well-designed beautiful interface and enough functionality to give well-established apps like things and omnifocus a run for their money. Firetask is a promising GTD-based productivity app with the simple ‘feel’ of a traditional to-do list.
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