The beauty of the TDM is that you can configure it to accommodate the most complex or most simple task management system that one wishes to work with. If all you want is a simple To Do list, TDM handles that very well — just configure it so that the bells and whistles you don’t need aren’t on the task entry screen. As you grow comfortable with it, or wish to explore its other features, you can add them in bit-by-bit according to your own level of comfort.

If you work with GTD, TDM can accommodate it nicely. Prefer Covey’s system of quadrants? TDM does it. Or go your own way and combine the two. TDM can handle it.

Some of the gripes people have mentioned here have already been fixed (i.e. font management.) Other fixes coming soon according to the authors, such as the ability to sync with Outlook.

One critical point I must also comment on is the absolutely quick and courtesy customer service and technical support provided by RexWireless. I have contact them on questions - both simple and complete - and have received answers within an hour or two at most.

I would advise anyone interested in an outstanding task management system for Blackberry (that comes with the ability to access and manage your tasks via a web interface as well) to invest a few days in giving ToDoMatrix a good trial and judge for yourself. Unfortunately, the review given to the program is contradictory to what many other credible reviewers have written about ToDoMatrix. I think it’s a given that most reviewers accurately recognize ToDoMatrix to be the most advanced and complete task management system available for the Blackberry today.

1. Learning curve
2. NO integration with Outlook native applications or task list… this is the BIG drawback to the program
3. Lack of flexibility in fonts, display modes, and other features — you have to work with what RexWireless gives you since there is not very much customization. The font thing is really annoying — could they have used a worse font? I don’t think so.
4. Time for data entry. If you spend that much time entering your tasks, you are spending a lot of time not getting them done. When you have a program that integrates with Outlook, a lot of the data entry effort — and synchronization — is done for you.
5. Reliance on a subscription model. Who wants to shell out money on an annual basis for them to peer over your shoulder?
6. Prohibitive cost for personal use. It’d be great if I owned my own real estate company and could expense / write off my software purchases as a business expense. But I can’t.

Personally, I am using BBTask Pro combined with the reminder feature of the native Tasks app in the Blackberry — along with Outlook on my laptop — to manage my tasks and projects and to implement GTD. It’s not perfect, but it has served me fairly well so far. What I am really, really waiting for is the release of Pocket Informant for the Blackberry.

I deleted the ToDoMatrix software within a week of installing it. I would personally give it about 5 stars.

For anyone that is serious about task management so that no ball is dropped while juggling a complex life, there is no software that does as good a job as todoMatrix - Nothing even close. I have tried nearly everything - not only on Blackberry but on Palm and Winmobile too.

The review is correct that using this highly capable package takes sometime to get used to - maybe a week - but I disagree with the basic tone that it is too complex. This package grows with a person’s needs - you can start out relatively simply and add more tracking as you need it.

I would strongly recommend people try it for themselves. There is an excellent white paper on rexwireless.com that is a must read. But if you are like me, with a busy life (I’m a realtor with a 5 member team, 50+ listings to juggle, 30 buyers at any given time, few personal rental properties, and two kids), todoMatrix is a life-saver!

I’ve been looking for one but I haven’t found anything else that I really like. At least now I know the price. I can say I won’t be buying this software.

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