Perspectives to configure. Plugins to wire up. Databases to design. Somewhere under all of it was the actual work. SmartyTask does one thing: it runs your GTD®. There's nothing to set up, so there's nothing to abandon.
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What you're really choosing between.
The best part of a tool built to do one thing is the long list of things it refuses to make you do.
No custom perspectives, no formula columns, no template marketplace. The system is already GTD®.
No app updates, no plugin conflicts, no sync errors at the worst possible moment.
You don't reshape GTD® to fit the app. The app already speaks Actions, Contexts, Ticklers, Altitudes.
Snappy, obvious, quiet. If you've read the book, you already know how to use it.
Complexity is why you quit the last five. SmartyTask is deliberately, stubbornly focused: capture, clarify, organize, reflect, engage. The method, on a screen, and not one thing more.
Try it free for 7 daysSend anything to your private inbox address and it's captured before the thought escapes. The single most-loved feature, and the one the bloated tools make impossible.
"I built SmartyTask in 2009 because I'd read the book, tried the tools, and quit every one of them for the same reason you probably did — the tool became the project. Seventeen years later I still run my own business on it, every single day. It does GTD®. It will never do anything else."
We don't take a card up front and we won't charge a penny until you've run your system on it for a full week. If it's not lighter than what you've got now, you owe nothing.
Start your FREE TrialYes — full GTD®, minus the parts you were never supposed to be doing in the first place. Actions, Contexts, Projects, Someday/Maybe, Ticklers, and Altitudes are all native. What's missing is the configuration overhead, on purpose.
Most people start fresh by capturing what's actually on their plate right now — which is a faster, cleaner GTD® reset than migrating years of cruft. Start your trial and rebuild your inbox in an afternoon.
It lives on our secure servers with daily backups. Nothing to lose to a dead laptop, a failed sync, or a phone in a lake.
$9.99/month or $99/year, your choice. No card needed to start, so you're never billed unless you decide to stay.