Tasktoy is a light and simple specialized GTD web task manager. Although it does not provide the user with many services, it is free and comes with a full set of features. The developer (Toby Segaran) built the application for himself after reading the Getting things done book and suggests to use tasktoy as your browser’s homepage so you can review actions frequently.
Besides it’s interface which needs a little more styling, the application is super fast, providing the user ways to add actions, locations and projects to a unified homepage. Contexts are supported as locations (you can have 10 unshared plus 8 shared) and Projects also. There is sharing with other users (up to 3 emails), RSS feeds for action lists, reminders, simple and recurring, and notes for keeping reference information .
Killer features:
- Extremely lightweight
- Data export to csv and text
- Import tasks by emailing to [Location].[Project]@tasktoy.com
GTD mode: Locations as contexts, Projects and Notes for reference material.
Weaknesses:
- No GUI enhancements makes the application fairly distant from desktop’s usability
- No Next action support or multiple context assignment to actions
Supported elements: Locations, projects, notes, links, colored actions, shared lists, archiving, reminders and recurring reminders, printing.
Supported services: Atom feeds, email import, email reminders, csv and text export
Mobile access: Mobile site (experimental)
Cost: Free
Conclusion : Besides its unpolished user interface, the tasktoy is a nice and sufficient GTD tool for quick and simple implementations plus your data will be available to you for download anytime. It really has the potential to be better. It’s major downsize is its due date approach to GTD without using priorities or Next Actions.