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Re:Ask HN: Critique my free app by brendonjason on Thursday September 16, 2010 @11:20PM (#1699988)
Nice. Now go to http://www.culturedcode.com, get a demo of "Things" and piggy back their award-winning design layout and make a web-based version of it. A good start is to one-up them and make sub-tasks within tasks or task notes, something they refuse to do for some reason.

But good.

Re:Ask HN: Critique my free app by widgetycrank on Friday September 17, 2010 @01:21AM (#1700235)
Thanks! :)

I used Things and OmniFocus for a while.

I was pretty psyched about OmniFocus' hierarchical tasks when it came out, but what I ended up doing was organizing complex projects with OmniOutliner, which can aggregate numbers better. I simply pick out the more immediate tasks and add them to my task manager in a flat structure.

I love Things, it really strikes the right balance of features and simplicity. The thing is almost all of my tasks were at my computer, so GTD-style context was not used much. In the end I just needed a todo list. I'm sure other folks need to juggle contexts more often than I do, but personally I haven't had a need justify the overhead at the moment.

I think a major appeal for the current GTD apps are the offline mobile versions. They let users take their apps to actual different contexts, away from the computer.