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i've struggled with iGTD (overcomplicated, weird syncing), through OmniFocus (despite the "Omni" quality prefix is the app interface confusing and the price just too high) and ended here with Things being happy. Things has just the mac clean interface and simplicity, cruicial in GTD. during a busy day there is no time to eat and drink, not to study an overcomplicated app. thanks

Although I love just about anything OMNI, OF really wasn't working for me. Neither were any of the other 10 apps I tried. I was looking for something as easy as TaskPaper but something powerful like OF. Things is it. In my top three favourite apps on my Macbook Pro.

Even though I bought Omni Focus, I switched to Things. It just works better for me. Visually it is more appealing and it has less buttons and views compared to OF. Simplicity is king.

I've used Things for a couple of weeks now and I planned some major things with it like immigrating to another country and getting a whole lot done for my business. I use it every day with pleasure.

i've tried them all. and i think this is hands down the best gtd software. absolute favorite

Now that Things had iCal sync (Leopard only) I can finally start to test against OmniFocus. I like them both but "there can be only one." God, I'm such a nerd... I like them both but OmniFocus can be a bit overwhelming. I actually like the interface though b/c I'm a huge fan of OmniOutliner. Things just seems a lot more intuitive for me to use.

It's a wonderful application.
I one weekend my inbox is cleaned, mail.app, ical, and Things work together to simplify my life.

I too bought OmniFocus but have found it limited by its OmniOutliner roots and strict adherence to GTD canon. Things accepts that real people like to have priorities (not allowed in strict GTD), and the flexibility of the tagging system is soooo helpful. The developers say they will add subprojects and subareas, which will fix my one remaining major issue.

I have been an OmniFocus user since the beta days and cannot praise it highly enough. When I first tried Things (back when it was by invitation only) it certainly looked better but was, for me, too simplistic and lacked too many features I needed.

Recently I had another look at Things, which is now much more complete. I imported my most important data from OmniFocus and started using the two in tandem (better safe than sorry!) because I found that the flexibility offered by Things (especially the famous "magical tag bar") required a different approach. Having spent time getting to know the app and tweaking my tags, I now have Things tailored to my liking and much prefer its clean visual style, which I find combines perfectly with the many features that have been added during development and simplifies the task of collecting, sorting and acting on everything I need to do.

During the last few days I have been using Things exclusively and I think it is fair to say that it has become my "trusted system" for GTD. It is true that OmniFocus still offers some more features but Things wins in appearance and ease of use and certainly meets my needs. Furthermore, having seen the way that Cultured Code have developed Things up to now, I am sure that it will only keep getting better.

Such a great program. I use it daily. ONE THING though is it replaces links I paste into the Notes field of a next action with weird XML characters and Chinese/Japanese characters. I'm guessing it has something to do with escaped characters in the code, but it's quite annoying when I change computers and find that my links don't work. Other than that, great app and I plan to buy it when it gets to 1.0.

It is the best one ever!.... Great app!!!
Now with syncing

simple as can be for those tealovers that use to dive deep into work and forget about everything - but the tea to keep 'em going :)

addictive & interesting time killer :)

love this app

seems to work just fine with 10.5.1

Oh god, this is so ugly, slow, and unintuitive... iWork is much better.

It really doesn't seem to be anything but 2004 with a 'spiced up' UI, which is as bad as 2004, and in some areas, worse!
If it was anything like 2007 then great, but it's really not. Shame.
Microsoft being half assed with the Mac community - not a surprise really!

iWork is definitely better, although 2008 may be worth it for excel, as it's still got the edge on Numbers in it's current immature stage.

Office 2008 is almost two times faster to do the same task as 2004 (tested by logging CPU time for the app doing the same task) for Intel machines. It uses about 1/4 more real memory but 1/4 less virtual memory. It is clearly faster and doesn't beachball like 2004 did. The UI is much better than 2004, much more integrated and consistent.

But it has broken compatibility with Endnote XI, causing issues for academic users. And Excel now fails to offer the Analysis toolpak as all old macros are now broken.

iWork: faster and uses less resources that Office 2004 or 2008. Nicer UI but functionality is like a toy:

1) No cross-referencing for word-processing.
2) Pages cannot even outline work.
3) Closed format — why in this age are Apple still offering closed proprietary formats!?
4) Pages cannot integrate effectively with bibliography software.
3) Numbers is crippled offering no error bars, and way behind on functionality in general. There are horrible bugs in its 3D chart functionality.

Sorry, though I want to like iWork, it fails to support even core Apple domains (education, where, you know, error bars, statistics functions, bibligraphies and cross-referencing are important). For many, that leaves Office or OpenOffice (with no native interface). For word-processing there are great apps like Mellel (puts Pages to shame), but support for Word documents is poor...

For just writing, dump Word/Pages/Mellel and use Scrivener!

The only feature missing in this edition vs. the standard edition is the Microsoft Server Exchange Support, is that right?

Word and Excel are pretty great in 2008.

I've noticed several document rendering discrepancies between Office for Windows and Office for Mac, both as a student and as a professional. Images not showing up in Word and dropdown menus for cells not showing all items in Excel. I'd stick to the Windows version if you can because of these issues. Caused much gnashing of teeth for me.