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New web-based GTD app: Facile Things

If you’re a GTD user and are looking for a cloud-based way to implement that system, you might check out Facile Things. This platform seems similar to Remember The Milk, but Facile Things is grounded in the GTD philosophy and uses an “orthodox” GTD setup to collect, process and manage tasks. By contrast, Remember The Milk is not really a GTD implementation but a list-making service that happens to work pretty well with GTD. 

Here’s a tour of Facile Things that shows what it does. It seems nice and intuitive, and it seems to do GTD in the right ways. GTD works only insofar as the trusted system you use lets you get things into the inbox very rapidly on the front end and allows for logical, systematic classification and management on the back end. Facile Things appears to do both. 

There will eventually be free, basic, and pro accounts available with the latter two at some level of pricing per month. The prices for the basic and pro accounts aren’t posted yet. Unfortunately you had better plan on getting at least the basic plan in the future, because the free plan only lets you have 5 projects going at a time and doesn’t let you submit items to the inbox via email. 

I’m an OmniFocus zealot, so I won’t be trying the service out, but Facile Things might hit some people in just the right ways when it comes to GTD. You can also follow them on Twitter at @FacileThings.