Project management applications. Getting things done. There’s always something for the iPhone & iPod touch that relates to task management. And hell, Apple just opened up a brand new section exclusively for us perhaps OCD individuals. I mean, are all Apple owners productivity freaks or what? The next time someone tosses the term “hipster” out there, I might be inclined to add that we happen to be “productive” hipsters. With icons! Task This icons.

Task This has a neat twist on task management, by separating all of our productivity tools into separate apps. So it’s like having a homescreen in a homescreen (a desktop in a desktop if you will). And these icons don’t just present a pretty face - I’m intrigued by this implementation, and impressed that navigation works so well here.

So scorecard in hand, let’s create a project first. Personally, I think Task This does the best job (of any app) in this category. It’s the really first I’ve come across that does a good job of presenting notes, dates, status, and giving you the option to keep track of your budget & spending. Everything just flows, and though I wish I could add more than contacts in the resources pane (for example, assign objects or places).

Once your first project is made, you can scroll through a list of projects, or tap a project to add events. Events (tasks) can have a ton of data attached to them, including being able to repeat, attach photos, and create audio memos. The amount of information you can assign to each event is astounding, though you’ll notice a theme in that this app is heavily date driven.

Task This I thought was especially useful for office folk or perhaps light construction detail. You can create a shopping list and add items with amounts that can be added to projects or stand alone. This is great for remembering when to buy paperclips and things like that, though I am spoiled with dedicated apps that either have predictive text features or aisle/category functions that make creating a shopping list much faster.

Along with having lots of handy calendars available to you, one may be inclined to create reminders. Push notifications will alert you to time and dates you assign, and I believe badge icons appear as well for due or soon to be due items.

Much of Task This provides a lot of shortcuts to different areas of the app for easily finding material. While you have some redundancy in the Calendar and Today, and Events and Category sections of the app, those daring enough will step into the settings, where you can change your default view, define a password (to keep your nosey children out), and change the app’s background (meaning, it’s themeable!).

For the price of free, with a donation requested, Task This is a must try, and perhaps must have productivity application. I don’t know what people’s beef is with this thing, because I think it’s pretty incredible for all that it does. For free. I mean, it’s certainly something I could see myself paying $4.99 for. Easily. Grab it from the iTunes Store and stay productive.

Notice: A couple of our readers are concerned that the developer of Task This is using icon designs from other designers without permission or attribution. I will email the developer to ask about this issue.

Update: I heard back from the developer, and this was the response:

“Hello,

Thank you for the alert. When building this free app I have looked for icon from the website www.iconfinder.net and make sure the used one were under “Free for commercial use” or “GPL” license that authorize me to include them into my free application. Nevertheless, because of the number of icons i have looked for it is possible that i have used some that were not usable in the application in terms of license or possibly the license has been changed.

If i used some icons that i were not allowed to in term of ownership and/or license, it is only a pure mistake and was not made on purpose. I have never claimed the ownership of any icons and more over when i have been asked about them, i always have answer that the icons were taken from the iconfinder.net website.

Since you alerted me, i have taken contact with the author of the mentioned CAROL them to let him know my mistake. Please find below the email i have written to him.

But in any way i have stolen the icons since it was not done knowing i could not use them. Also it is a free app for wish i’m not asking money in exchange of the usage of it so the objective was not to make money using other people work or art.

As soon as i have the author answer, i’ll let you know.”

So this was by no means intentional, and the developer is of course willing to fix the problem. This is a great application, and I’m really glad to see such a quick, positive response. Thanks Loïc!