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I see him in every line of my code.

做人们喜爱的东西，借之帮助他们找到所爱的东西。

—— On the day Steve Jobs resigned as Apple CEO

We are still bullshitting clever and interesting words now and then on Twitter, only with a much higher shit rate.

GTD applications with full hierarchy:

• Todoist – project->subproject->item->subitem
• Toodledo – folder->task->subtask, but free version has no subtask feature
• Treedolist – tree of items
• Vitalist – project->subproject->action, but free version has a limit of 10 projects(including subprojects)

GTD applications with tag/label:

• HiTask – multiple tags for tasks
• Nozbe – multiple tags for projects
• Todoist – multiple labels for items
• Toodledo – single tag for tasks
• Treedolist – multiple lables for items

GTD applications with note:

• HiTask – description for tasks and stand-alone notes at the same level of tasks
• Nozbe – notes are independent elements at the same level of actions, so multiple notes can be added into one project; besides, a description can be specified for projects; notes and descriptions use the same syntax with plentiful text formats
• Toodledo – notes for tasks
• Treedolist – notes for items with Textile syntax
• Vitalist – notes with simple markup tags(a, em, strong) can be added to projects and actions

GTD applications with context:

• Nozbe – single context can be specified for actions; there are more than 10 pre-defined contexts, and new contexts can be created; meaningful icons can be specified for contexts
• Toodledo – single context can be specified for tasks
• Vitalist – multiple contexts can be specified for actions

GTD applications with priority:

• HiTask – 8 colors can be specified for tasks
• Nozbe – actions can be only marked with a star to be identified as Next Actions
• Todoist – 16 unnumbered colors can be specified for projects, 4 numbered colors can be specified for items
• Toodledo – 5 priorities can be specified for tasks: -1 Negative, 0 Low, 1 Medium, 2 High, 3 Top
• Treedolist – 2 priorities: Waiting, Urgent; in addition, font size can be adjusted to reflect different priories
• Vitalist – 3 priorities can be specified for actions: High, Medium, Low

GTD applications with grouping/ordering:

• HiTask – tasks can be grouped by date, project, color, and user
• Todoist – items can be ordered by priority and date
• Toodledo – tasks can be grouped by folder, context, goal, priority, tag, and repeat mode; tasks can be ordered by due date, due time, length, and timer
• Vitalist – actions can be grouped by context, date, project, and contact

GTD applications with filtering/searching:

• HiTask – tasks can be filtered by tag
• Nozbe – actions can be filtered by context, and projects can be filtered by tag
• Todoist – items can be filtered by date, priority, label
• Toodledo – tasks can be filtered by folder, context, goal, due date, priority, tag, recent action(add, complete, modify); tasks can be searched with all kinds of attributes
• Treedolist – items can be filtered by completion status, date, priority, label
• Vitalist – actions can be filtered by date, project, priority, context, contact; actions can be searched with complex options, including action, due date, complete date, priority, context, completion status, project, process status, contact, group by

GTD applications with time tracking:

• HiTask – starting and ending dates and times are logged for tasks
• Nozbe – time estimate can be specified for actions
• Toodledo – tasks can be tracked with timer
• Vitalist – complete date can be logged for projects and actions

GTD applications with process status:

• Vitalist – 6 statuses: inbox, actions, waiting, someday, ticklers, reference

GTD applications with drag & drop:

• HiTask – tasks can be dragged to do reordering and dropped to a different group to do reorganization
• Nozbe – simple drag & drop support to reorder actions, projects, and contexts
• Treedolist – items can be dragged around at will and dropped anywhere

GTD applications with keyboard shortcuts:

• Todoist
• Treedolist
• Vitalist

GTD applications without calender:

• Todoist – date and time need be specified with a flexible syntax

You should have noticed that as a personal user, I’m not mentioning any features as to collaboration. However, basically all online GTD applications support some kind of collaboration, not considering price.

You must be curious which one I am using. I’ve chosen HiTask at last for it offers the most complete and desirable feature subset of my need, and also a simple and nifty UI that I love.