
Mostly I use my iPhone to manage tasks, but if I happen to be using the iPad when something crops up, it’s right there. I chose to make a one-time payment to unlock the app and then installed it on my iPad as well.
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GoodTask gives you 14 days of full functionality before you have to decide whether to pay, and this was plenty for me to make that decision. I liked the look of GoodTask and downloaded it on my iPhone to have a go. The benefit of this approach is I don’t need to direct Siri to put the reminder into a specific app, but I still get a nice interface and a few extra features over the default app. I started reading the MacStories post and the more I read, the more I liked.

I’d been vaguely aware that some apps directly used Apple’s Reminders data, but I had not given any a try in a long time. Reminder and GoodTask: Third-Party Upgrades to Apple’s Reminders Last November, my eye was caught by a headline on MacStories. It has been so frustrating that I simply stopped doing it, or on the few occasions I decided to use Siri, I just let the reminder go into the default Reminders app.


In my experience, Siri tends to cut me off before I add “in OmniFocus” to the end of my sentence, and sometimes I cut myself off because it’s just not a natural thing to say. As of iOS 11, it has been possible to direct Siri to add a reminder directly to OmniFocus. One of the few uses I have for Siri is setting reminders, as I often think of things I need to add to my list when it’s not terribly convenient to stop, open an app, tap around, and type out the reminder. I’ve been invested in OmniFocus for over three years now and admire the fit and polish of the product, but I’m at a point in my life where its complexity is now overkill and, well, I’m falling out of love with it. When it comes to task management apps on Apple platforms, there has long been a gold standard in the Omni Group’s OmniFocus.
