mrdogsaidthis

I think tagging is the key difference and usability enhancement. it allows you to impose your own cross-task structure -- priorities, categories, statuses, etc. whatever the designers didn't think of or want to clutter the UI with.

After reading GTD (what a relief!), I found it ironic that most GTD apps were not simple to use and actually complicated processing tasks. Things follows two philosophies: GTD simplicity and Macintosh elegance.

Things succeeds where I believe OmniFocus failed. This is an easy to use application. Within ten minutes I had inputed over a dozen projects and next actions.

Kudos to Cultured Code!

Things is just an awesome program. I own omnifocus but find it takes a lot of work to get it right. Things works the way my brain works. It still needs improvement it isnt even at v1.0 yet. Of course it will support the iphone in June.

A near-perfect application. I use this constantly during my hectic workday, to keep tabs on my priorities when my own head can't keep up. Previously I had an entire 1600×1200 display full of Post-it-notes for the same purpose. I've inspired two other of my workmates to start using it. I can't wait until there's iPhone sync support!

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

nice! hopefully some kind of auto-tag suggestion comes in a future release, but as it is today, it works for me.

The only grief I have with Punakea is that it surrounds the Spotlight comments with these ###begin_tags ###end_tags### parts. It would be nice if you could (I can't, right?) definte your own tag markups, so that you can have it better share the same tags with other applications.

Unfortunately Punakea doesn't work accross computers for the moment. (See support forum)

In its latest version, Punakea has finally taken over the file management on my Mac. Extremely useful, especially when you want to have files associated with more than one "folder". I keep the new "Tags" folder in my Dock, which makes accessing files the old fashioned way (browsing through folders) very easy and fast.

Would be nice if:

a) bookmarked pages were rendered inline via WebKit (then I can stop using Cocoalicious which I am afraid is no longer maintained)
b) I could choose icon view

However with or without these features, it's a great app!