Comments on: The evolution of task management (Things review)

By: things2thl - migrate from Things to The Hit List

things2thl - migrate from Things to The Hit List — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:10:05 +0000

[...] to continue tracking my tasks, and I have all of them already in the awesome Things (about which I have written before). So I have spent the last few days putting together a script to migrate my data from Things to [...]

By: zzamboni

zzamboni — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:35:22 +0000

@Conrad: sorry to hear of your problems with CC support. As evidenced by my review, my experience has been quite different. I have gotten personal replies several times from CC in response to bug reports. Very helpful as well are the forums, since Things has a very active user community (and CC people also post frequently).

I don't own an iPhone or iPod Touch, so I cannot comment on the sync capabilities.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:44:32 +0000

I followed this program for months hoping it would get better. It has too many bugs, and what I'd been waiting for, syncing with an iTouch, never seems to work right. The cost is prohibitively high for a program with so many bugs. I don't recommend it. Or if you need a task organizer without the sync capability, just get the iTouch/iPhone version and forget the Mac desktop version.

Also, their customer support is completely lacking. I've written them four times and never received a response. For this reason alone, I would not purchase their program. It is like paying money have being kicked in the teeth. Far better to vote with your feet and chose a better application with customer support.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:05:31 +0000

The problem with GTD products I’ve used is that a lot end up not being supported… e.g. Thinking Rock doesn’t seem to be supported any more and ActionTastic has also died. So I keep moving from one GTD to another.

My conclusion is that unless Apple create their own built-in GTD that is good, then it isn’t worth risking your productivity on ANY third party company. I want a promise that a third party company will continue development… sadly no third party company can promise that.

Back to todolist.txt

By: jauhari

jauhari — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:42:29 +0000

Free?

By: jauhari

jauhari — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:42:03 +0000

It's look like promising tools I want try this

By: Pauletta

Pauletta — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:12:05 +0000

I have looked at the script.,

By: ToDo app Things is the bomb at Tobias Buckell Online

ToDo app Things is the bomb at Tobias Buckell Online — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:52:18 +0000

[...] a review here, here, and here that cover in depth my same reasons for liking [...]

By: Hitchhiker

Hitchhiker — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:40:54 +0000

@Craig: thank you for the comment. I have not looked at Ready-Set-Do!, but it certainly looks interesting – I might have to try it out.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:59:02 +0000

Thanks for the review and the tip on dragging items into the Note field. I love Things but I am still discovering some things about it because it was so easy to just using that I never read any directions on it. I have tried at least a little bit just about everything else out there for the Mac. Things is still evolving for me as I think about my system of tags. That seems to be where Things either comes together in GTD or falls apart into just a to-do list program. ThinkingRock is still on my machine to remind me of the rigorous GTD system. I don’t actively use it. I do still actively use the Mac only GTD system of scripts “Ready-Set-Do!” by Todd Vasquez http://homepage.mac.com/toddvasquez/Ready-Set-Do!/Personal93.html

It Comprehensively integrates all of your files and programs into David Allen’s GTD workflow without locking you into a particular program. So I go back and forth between these scripts which help me practice the GTD system with little effort and the program Things which thanks to the above tip I can use on my other account on the same system. I think over time Ready-Set-Do! will help me work out how I will use Things tag system.

I also strongly recommend Neil Fiore’s book to any GTD enthusiast, “The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play”