I’m a fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD). I also have an iPhone, so for me it’s quite the perfect device for tracking my next actions and projects because it’s always with me.

After trying a bit OmniFocus for iPhone, I decided it was way too complex for what’s needed for a practical GTD implementation, and that synchronization pretty much sucked because an Apple MobileMe account is a must. Following David Allen’s own advice, a simple to-do list will suffice. That’s why I decided to go with Appigo’s ToDo¹.

A friend of mine is a great fan of GTD-friendly web application Remember the milk. I decided too to give it a try and I created a free account. I heard that it was possible to synchronize it with ToDo so I thought it would be nice to use them together.

But no. Yesterday, configuring ToDo in my iPhone I discovered that Remember the milk folks force you to have a “pro” account (meaning paying for the service) to have synchronization with ToDo. I guess all because they have their own iPhone application, that only works online². Bummer, and not the way to go for sure.

Fortunately, there’s another (and no, it’s not Leia Organa): Toodledo. I configured my account there, tested the web application a bit, configured my iPhone’s ToDo app and voilá, synchronization is working perfectly. List management is quite nice, and it even supports bulk task-loading when you’re craving for getting a bunch of task out of your mind.

So, Venera7’s recommendation for GTD with iPhone and your computer: Appigo’s ToDo and Toodledo.

1. The only problem I see is that ToDo is US$9.99, a bit overpriced for a ToDo application. [↩]
2. For people that travel a lot and/or are out of GPRS/3G range, that’s not an option [↩]