GoodTask 3
Control your schedule
£19.99 FROM Haha Interactive, goodtaskapp.com Needs OS X 10.11 or later
This app combines Apple’s Calendar and Reminders and syncs with iCloud. It’s more than that, though: it adds several features of its own to do much more than Apple’s apps.
With tags assigned, you can view or exclude tasks based on those tags. You can filter notes that include certain text strings; filtering is done using Smart Lists and you can create lists showing overdue items, items in a specific location, or those created recently.
Quick Actions allow you to choose from a number of presets, such as alert times or adding tags. You can edit these or add your own, either when you create a task or by selecting one. You can select multiple tasks and add Quick Actions in bulk. It takes a bit of learning, but becomes a quick way of manipulating tasks – though we’d have liked the option to add keyboard shortcuts.
Annoyingly, GoodTask doesn’t access Contacts, but tasks can be input using natural language, and you can create text snippets to make text entry quicker, like using ‘nw’ for ‘next week’. Unfortunately, you can’t edit Calendar entries; there’s only the option to view them, and snippets are limited to specific actions.