Taskwarrior vs GTDNext

The command line interface puts powerful filtering expressions, context, annotations, tags, due dates, reoccurrence, and user-defined-attributes totally in your hands. It’s fast and low friction.

Taskwarrior has many front-ends, services, extensions, hook scripts, and capsules available. Taskwarrior keeps a list of contributed tools on their site.

Taskwarrior is written in the speedy C++ language.

Future-proof and easily integrated with version control system. You never lose access to your data.

When used in conjunction with the Taskserver, it can sync tasks (conflict-free) across your Taskwarrior devices. This includes integration with Mirakel.

It has UTF8 support and is translated into many languages.

Taskworrior allows you to define custom attributes and reports to your needs.

You can be in full control of your data.

All the “Get Things Done” lists you would expect: next actions, someday, waiting, and scheduled.

When it comes to choosing your next action, most to-do apps suffer from the same problem: All of your actions (sometimes hundreds in total) are visible to choose from. This can overwhelm users and cause them to give up on the system. GTDNext is different. In the "Next Action" view, only the very next action is shown for each of your projects. This results in a nicely consolidated view of only the things that need your immediate attention.

In GTDNext you can set up an unlimited number of levels for your projects and actions, allowing you to plan your project and sub-projects in as much detail as needed.

GTDNext supports the “Areas of Focus” methodology from Getting Things Done. You can filter all of your tasks to just show your work tasks, side project tasks, or personal tasks. There is also a global filter, so that when you’re hard at work you can focus only on your work projects and tasks.

This is really useful because it prevents you from having to navigate through each project individually.

The number of keyboard shortcuts makes it easy to log or add tasks without removing your hands from the keys.