Tasky – ToDo & Task Manager
Tasky makes time and task management simple. But is it too simple?
Sometimes we wonder how anybody got anything done before computers and smartphones: the explosion of task management apps on OS X and iOS suggests we’re all pretty awful at being organized without help from our electronic assistants. Tasky – ToDo & Task Manager promises to help with that, without the complexity of some rival task managers.
It runs on your Mac and syncs to a $3.99 iOS companion app via iCloud. The interface is clean, with the calendar in the top left corner, filter buttons for All, Complete, and Incomplete in the middle, and bookmarks for tasks due today, tomorrow and next week. The rest of the window is dedicated to the tasks themselves, with a panel that slides in from the right enabling you to create and manage task categories. You can create a task from the main window or by clicking a date in the calendar view, and there’s room for notes underneath the task title. You can quickly postpone a task to the following day, week or month.
And that’s about it. Tasky is fast, and is pleasant to use, but it lacks some of the features in Apple’s Reminders app: you can’t schedule alerts based on time or location, you can’t automatically repeat an event, and you can’t set different priorities for different tasks.
And if you’re an Apple Watch owner, you can’t control the iOS app or add reminders via Siri from your Watch. And of course Reminders isn’t your only option. For calendar and reminders, Fantastical 2 is the app to beat, and if task management is your thing then you’re spoilt for choice by the likes of Todoist, Wunderlist, and Clear. The pitch for Tasky is simplicity, but we think it’s perhaps a little too simple for anything other than the least demanding schedules. So Tasky is effectively positioning itself as the task manager for people who think most task managers are too powerful. It’s polished, but it’s limited. We’d recommend checking out the many free task managers and to-do lists before deciding to spend any money here.
the bottom line. Tasky feels too simple: it lacks features that Apple’s own Reminders offers, and you can get more flexible apps for less.