Task Manager Help

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mr.4th.grade

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I'm looking for a task manager that meets the following criteria:

1. Reliable usage on iPad, iPhone, and Mac
2. Usable offline
3. Location based reminders on the iPhone
4. Repeating reminders

I can't stress enough how important it is for me to have access to my tasks on multiple devices. Right now, I use gotask for the iPhone and iPad. For the Mac, I use google tasks (which I really don't care for but it syncs seamlessly with gotask) right now but would not mind a stand alone app. I would probably stick with gotask forever if they just had location based reminders! It is SO helpful.

Any help please?
 
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OmniFocus. Works on all three. Interface optimized for all three--the iPhone app isn't just a scroll-around-a-big-screen port of the Mac app, for example. Usable offline. Cloud-based syncing if you want it, wifi syncing on the Mac if you're paranoid like me and don't want your data in a cloud.

The only issue when I consider it against your requirements is that I don't find location based reminders to be all that reliable, but that seems to be about the iPhone's accuracy in detecting locations, not any flaw in OmniFocus.

(Edited to add: And also the fact that I live in a small town , so that almost every location that I want to be reminded about is less than a mile from every other location.)

(Edited again to add: Well, and once in a while, if I make massive changes in one device--deleting folders, creating folders, revamping my whole project sstructure--it's unable to sync with the other devices and instead I need to choose one database or the other. This is irritating, but in practice all it means is that I sync everything before I sit down to make those massive changes, just in case.)
 
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mr.4th.grade said:
I'm looking for a task manager that meets the following criteria:

1. Reliable usage on iPad, iPhone, and Mac
2. Usable offline
3. Location based reminders on the iPhone
4. Repeating reminders
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Omnifocus. Although location reminders are not very accurate in my experience so I quit using them. I am also in a small town, with a single cell phone tower within 10 miles of me, so there is no way to triangulate my position and get them any better. I turned them off. I would be interested in seeing if someone in a place with more than a single cell tower gets better results.
 
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Oogiem said:
Omnifocus. Although location reminders are not very accurate in my experience so I quit using them. I am also in a small town, with a single cell phone tower within 10 miles of me, so there is no way to triangulate my position and get them any better. I turned them off. I would be interested in seeing if someone in a place with more than a single cell tower gets better results.
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OF has the best implementation I've seen, and it works well in the metropolitan area I live in. The real problem is that location reminders just don't seem that useful to me.
 
Folke

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Oogiem said:
I would be interested in seeing if someone in a place with more than a single cell tower gets better results.
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They are accurate enough, I guess, but I just do not want them. Just because I happen to pass by a certain place does not mean I want to do those tasks right now, and I find alarms irritating. I much prefer to simply look at my errand list when I choose to, and just tentatively "star" the things that might be possible to get done en route, and then decide later depending on time and energy etc.
 
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I have considered turning on location reminders for travel--I'd be irritated to take a plane to Portland, or even the twenty-minute drive to the nearest not-quite-so-small town, and realize that I forgot to do something while I was there. But it hasn't seemed worth the trouble yet.
 
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