Todo apps are meant for robots
Almost all Todo apps have the problem of showing you stuff that you are incapable of just seeing things you _can accomplish right now_.<p>I think people underestimate the amount of pain that comes from, over and over again, looking at a list of things you can't do anything about at a moment X.<p>The only TODO app that I've found get this at least 95% right is Omnifocus with its billions of settings. Though there's still sometimes a wish to have a "this part of the todo tree is still under construction" node.<p>I think that this absolutely fundamental failing has soured everyone on almost all of these kinds of apps. Which is a shame, because _if you put in the work to actually write out stuff_, it becomes much easier to get stuff done, and not feel bad about stuff.<p>People drag on GTD but David Allen is basically right (at least if you are living in the mindset of wanting to really work yourself hard). It's the task management equivalent of doing your budgetting seriously. Yeah, sometimes the problem is just that you need to make more money, but when you have your budget under control a lot of stress just disappears.