August 16th, 2007Vitalist to ask for paid subscription
It was a bit of a shame to read this morning that the guys behind the online GTD tool Vitalist have changed their services levels and payment schemes. Up until now the service has been free and unlimited with a paid subscription for the odd extra feature and no advertising. Personally, I would not use the extra features, and the ads don’t bother me, so I have been very happy with the free of charge model.
However, the new services mean the free service now has strict limits on the number of projects and really if you are going to use Vitalist properly you are going to now have to sign up to a monthly fee. I can see why they have done this, they have to make some money to keep things running somehow - but in a world of free software and online services it seems like maybe they could be shooting themselves in the foot and will loose a great number from their user base.
Vitalist is actually quite a good tool and after spending ages evaluating many offline and online GTD systems I found Vitalist came closest to what I needed. It was not as close to the GTD model as some systems, but all the things it offered scored well against what I was looking for.
