To my shame, I've used a bunch of productivity apps over the years. I know, I know, it's not about the tool, it's about the practice, but it's still worth keeping a track of these because with a lot of these I'll try it, not like it, ditch it, and return in six months.

OmniFocus

For Mac OS X only. I've been using this almost since they launched it, and it's still my go-to for home and personal task lists. I very much like it but I think that's mediated very much through the fact that it's on all my personal devices and I've grown used to it. How much is it the tool moulding to me, and how much my moulding to the tool?

I like

• No matter what the project I feel like OmniFocus will be able to deal with any number of nested tasks and the like.
• The outline approach to tasks makes navigating, sorting, editing, extremely easy.
• It's done well for me both when I've had lots of hobbies and regular reviews, and when I've just been involved with life and had relatively little chance to review things.
• I've been using it so long that I just know it.

I don't like

• The web view is still not up to par, sorry.

Superlist

From the folks who made WunderList, this is a pretty good task management app. It's my current go-to for work, although I imagine in six months I'll swap out.

I like

• Nested tasks
• Task entry and editing is easy and UX is nice
• The ability to just add paragraphs and heading and stuff to your task lists is pretty cool

I don't like

• The constant focus on AI to improve your projects
• Recurring tasks aren't quite there
• No idea about next tasks or parallel/sequential projects (something missing from lots of these apps)