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Over the past 7 or so months, since getting the Samsung Blackjack, I have been using my phone for a lot more GTD task management. The keyboard on the device makes it practical for doing so.

I've evaluated a few applications to manage my tasks, and ultimately settled on using OneNote Mobile and SmarterTasks. For a long time I was using Oxios Todo, as it has an amazing amount of flexibility. However, what I found was I was tweaking it to get to a point where it was like SmarterTasks out of the box. I also have a few complaints about SmarterTasks, but they have all been rectified in the latest release, 1.1.

IMHO you won't find a better task application. It removes all the unnecessary clutter UX from a task, and just focuses on the core features. It lets you enter a subject, priority, category and project. New to 1.1 is the fact that Projects are persisted using the increasingly common format:

[Project Name]

Where the name of the project is surrounded by brackets. This method is employed by ClearContext and Jello.GTD.

A recent GTD hack I started when I was on parental leave and had errands to run every day was to create a task in the @Errands category with the name of the store I was going to. Then in the notes field I would list all the individual items I needed such as:

@Errands

    @Whole Foods

        - milk

        - new york strip

and so on. When I got something on the list I just changed the dash to a plus sign. When everything was purchased I just marked the errand task as complete.