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Add to SafariWhen comparing Facilethings vs Toodledo, the Slant community recommends Toodledo for most people. In the question“What are the best cross-platform task apps?” Toodledo is ranked 23rd while Facilethings is ranked 29th. The most important reason people chose Toodledo is:
It's possible to create a to-do item by sending or forwarding an email.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Helps the weekly review process
Pro Allows adding items via email
Simply send an email to info@facilethings.com to add a new item to the Inbox.
Pro Support of a "start" date and a "expected" date
This is a very outstanding feature for a gtd App.
Pro Horizons of Focus
FacileThings integrates GTD's Horizons of Focus.
Pro Allows attachments in emails
You can collect stuff in the FacileThings Inbox by sending an email with attachments to the inbox@facilethings.com address.
Pro Full Integration and Syncing with Evernote
All notes are automatically synced.
Capture things in Evernote and the notes will appear in the FacileThings inbox.
Reference Material in Evernote will appear in Facile Things.
Pro Integrates with a bunch of third-party tools
Facilethings can integrate with Evernote, Twitter, Dropbox and Google calendar.
Pro Very simple
Pro Excellent support
Pro Can create to-do items via email
It's possible to create a to-do item by sending or forwarding an email.
Pro Decent filtering and sorting
Pro Priority organizing
Pro Great GTD implementation
The GTD principles are very perfectly supported by Toodledo.
Pro Functionality-rich
Integrated sharing, note taking, habit tracking, and outlining make this a more powerful tool than a simple list of to-dos.
Pro Upload From CSV
Quickly upload an excel (CSV) file template of tasks to a folder for complex but repeating projects.
Pro Well documented, free-to-use JSON API
If you adopt Toodledo as your productivity system, you can be confident that you can extend it to fit your needs with this programmatic access.
Pro Can tag items
Pro Space to add lengthy text
Notes area that can then be hidden.
Pro Sends a daily email reminder
Toodledo reminds you via email of the tasks on your plate for the day.
Pro Apple Watch support
Integrated support for Apple Watch lets you check on your to-dos on the run.
Cons
Con Android app
The Android app is not always reliable and doesn't have all of the features of the desktop app.
Con Rather slow
The web app has some performance issues. It feels too unresponsive at times.
Con A lot of clicking
Little inline editing or keyboard shortcuts.
Con Relatively costly
Con No native Windows App
Con Mobile web version is rubbish
Con Free version limited to 20 folders
Con Android app has annoying notifications
Whenever the app fails a background sync action for any reason (server issues, lack of internet connection, etc.), a notification appears.
Con Good as a starting point
Toodledo is a good starting point, but is essentially the same as an Excel spreadsheet where you have to build your workflow via the saved searches.
