Get Flow
I’ve tried almost a dozen TODO list trackers over the years. From text based solutions like TODO.txt or Xavier Shay’s XTDO to fancy-pants GUI solutions like Appigo Todo or Pomodoro App for the iPad to web-based solutions like Toodledo. I’ve also tried enterprise solutions like Jira, or code-based solutions like github issues or redmine or trac.
None of them have ever lasted. I bump into a wall of “it doesn’t quite do enough for me”. I want a todo system that:
- Tracks my TODO items from my laptop, iPad, iPod Touch, or any web browser
- Can assign due dates for tasks; can easily create repeatable tasks.
- Can group tasks into lists, and tag them with keywords and flagging
- Can comment on tasks and use those comments as future reference/documentation (i.e. they have to be searchable and, ideally, support at least minimal formatting)
- Can delegate tasks to other people
- Tasks must be exportable into standard data formats
Most systems fall down at that first point. None of them have made it through all of them.
Until now.
Flow has changed my expectations of todo tracking. It’s all of those points, all of them! And wrapped in an absolutely gorgeous interface. There are even niceties like a native OSX client that adds an Apple menu icon to easily and quickly drop in new tasks.
I’ve been using their free trial for two weeks now and have been nothing but pleased. I even got a response from their support email within an hour of asking how to do something. They even automatically renewed my first free trial for another two weeks after noticing that I hadn’t really used it yet.
If you have a list of things to get done, and you want to sanely track them. You should definitely give Flow a try.
