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GTD for home, GTD for office: a good choice ?

The story

During the past two years, I tested tons of GTD/Todo apps: from RTM to Nirvana, from Nozbe to Toodledo...
And I never found the right one which was able to handle my home GTD and my office one.
Of course, there are so many posts explaining how to integrate office & home tasks into one single application, especially on the G+ Productivity Community

The wrong hypothesis

My biggest mistake was to desperately try to find an app which can combine the both styles of GTD I have to follow.
A close look on my two workflows show how different they are.

Home GTD, simple and multi platform

My home GTD is very simple.

• I need to define (and follow) simple tasks, with simple deadlines or milestones.
• All my tasks are tagged and are stored in an unique list.
• Some tasks can have recurrent due dates.
• A very few of them have mutual links.
• And I frequently need to quickly add a task from my tablet.

But

• Less than 5% of them have a link to external file/site; so I do not need a deep integration with a CRM or files repository.
• I'm the sole person which define these tasks and make the reviews: so I do not need any collaboration facilities.

Office GTD, complex and emails centric

At the office, all my work is email centered. So I need a tool that

• Can process incoming emails from my office mailbox (Exchange).
• Can convert emails to tasks (actions, maybe, waiting for, etc), to calendar events or to reference data.
• Can handle the following-up of the replies or forward actions I apply to the email.
• Is able to attach files to emails/actions from my Evernote database.

But

• I will use more than 90% directly at the office, even if I would appreciate to sometimes view my office workflow from home.
• Again, I do not need collaboration features.

The winners

####On the home side, Remember the Milk becomes de-facto the winner. Oh, I know there are tons of other applications that can do what RTM does, but

• RTM was one of the first todo tools I played with. And I really fell in love with its GUI and its easy workflow. Except one point: dates has to be defined by keying in the date stamp: selecting a date in a pop-up calendar as in other todo apps is not allowed.
• RTM now integrates Evernote reminders and it is a real plus to my eyes.
• RTM can send deadlines warnings to myTwitter account or Skype one !

####On the office side, RTM is far too simple to handle my office workflow. Nozbe or Toodledo are great but emailing a task to a GTD app (in order to turn it into a task) is not enough to my eyes. Integrating the email but also its attachments and its replies inside the GTD workflow is intrinsically the heart of my productivity.

That's where IQTELL comes.

No only IQTELL can parse emails and creates tasks, ticklers or references files on the fly. But IQTELL offers (through its macro system) a way to customize its default way of working: from projects to actions, from emails boxes to display views, you can tune quite everything in IQTELL to fit your needs.

Best of all, as IQTELL integrates your office emails and has a Web interface, you can view them from home !