TaskFlow aims to be the gorgeous hub for the daily to-do lists, notes, timers, and reminders that you keep on your iPhone. Ultimately, Taskflow tries to stride the line between heavy duty do-it-all apps like Pocket Informant and prettier, more casual task apps like Wunderlist.
Tasks
Taskflow does a number of things, but at its core, it’s really a task manager.
There are two ways to create tasks in Taskflow: throwing them one by one into the Inbox for later categorizing, or simply heading right into a custom category and creating a task there. All tasks can be assigned due dates and you can also choose from a set of kick-ass little icons to give you a hint as to their context.
The inbox is a pretty common idea in the GTD world, but its implementation in Taskflow makes it a little cumbersome. As of v1.0, you can only ever move one task at a time, and doing so requires you to actually drill into the task to get the job done. Multi-selection capability would go a long way towards making task management easier in this app.
Ticking off tasks within the app is satisfying, thanks to the emphasis placed on the gorgeous graphics and animations. There’s also a little extra task management power in the form of task filters for names, due date, as well as the ability to make tasks auto-delete themselves after completion.
Overall, the task management capabilities of Taskflow are decent, but nothing to really write home about at the moment. The one issue that really stands out here is that the UI seems to require too many taps to really get anything done. I’d understand having so many menus if Taskflow supported tags, task alarms, task actions (e.g. call Jim Mobile), but the current feature set is so basic enough that the menus I have to go through to create, edit, or move a task just serve to frustrate me. There’s nothing wrong with making a basic task manager, but the UI should suit the feature set, and Taskflow just feels like it can’t decide whether it wants to focus on.
Extras (Reminders, Notes, Timers)
One other aspect that sets Taskflow apart from the crowd of iOS task managers is its flexibility. Not only can this app handle your grocery list, but your quick notes, birthday and anniversary reminders, and egg timers, too. The reminder and timer features are pretty basic and straightforward in their functionality, so they make for cool little extras, but the Notes section just feels too limited to be terribly useful.
It takes six taps to title and create a new note and three taps to edit an existing one, making this section of Taskflow feel far too cumbersome to use. I’m also not quite sure why you can’t view a note and then edit it (you’ve got to explicitly choose edit from the main Notes view to get to an edit screen).
Conclusion
Taskflow is a fun $1.99 app to play with, but its user interface trips over itself too much to warrant more than a casual recommendation at this time. Fewer menus and a more unified interface would really help make this task app flow.
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