I think I remember Akiva talking about Things. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

AKIVA WHERE ARE YOU TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS - Mike Nayyar

I'm also considering Omnifocus, but that seems like it's a little too in depth for me right now...after listening to some crazy Merlin Mann workflow stuff, I have a burning urge to have fancy crap working for me right now... - Mike Nayyar

Things is good if you're not totally married to the Getting Things Done methodology. One thing I like about Things over OmniFocus is that tasks in Things can have multiple tags to describe things about the task such as a person that you need for you to get the task done, or a location you have to be, or an item you have to have. OmniFocus, on the other hand, allows only one 'context' per task. So, say, if you have something that you can get done in multiple (but distinct) locations or that could be done by talking to several different (but particular) people, you're kind of screwed there. One thing that Things STILL doesn't have is OTA syncing. You have to be on the same network as your Mac to sync between your computer and iPhone and/or your computer and iPad (yes, the iPhone and iPad can't sync to each other). - Akiva

Any more with the questions? - Akiva

How regular are the updates? Has the feature set changed dramatically, or is it in sore need of an update? Nested tags - does it work, or does it just become a huge mess? Adding tasks - do you use dedicated hotkeys, or is there an app launcher type of deal you use? - Mike Nayyar

I tried to get onto the Evernote thing. It just took too much effort to put my brain and life into it. I just end up using Notepad++ (at work) or TextMate (at home) to write tons and tons of text files, and sync to Dropbox. I think I'll invest in Hazel (http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel...) to organize my junk into some sort of logical pile. - Mike Nayyar

I've been a huge fan of Things for years now. Bought their Mac and iPhone apps back in 08 and their iPad app as soon as it was released. I've become frustrated with their lack of OTA sync, which to my mind is way overdue. So I've just recently made the switch to OmniFocus. I was always more than a little intimidated by how complicated and feature-rich OmniFocus looked, but this time round I've spent a little time getting to know my way around it and I'm loving it. The iPad app is superb (though also very pricy) and now that I've got comfortable with the Mac app it is proving to be hugely effective for me. Some of the features I'm enjoying a lot are: Clippings (keyboard shortcuts to instantly grab an email and chuck it into the Inbox of OF), keyboard shortcuts for new task creation, 'Perspectives' which are customizable views to see just what you want to see, support for some great Apple scripts developed by clever folks who are power users, and even some nice themes for it to spruce up its kinda not so pretty default appearance. Oh, and easy, painless OTA sync. - Patrick Jordan

@Patrick I still get the impression that Omnifocus is for a user who is a bit more advanced than I am...I'm just dipping my toes into task management software, and so far what I've tried (Wunderlist is the most notable so far) has been underwhelming for me. Is it worth it to get Omnifocus for Mac/iPhone and really spend the time to learn it, vs diving in with no learning into the Things ecosystem? - Mike Nayyar

Sounds like probably best to move to Things - which has a beautiful, simple UI and offers a strong set of features. It lacks the OTA sync, but not much else essential beyond that - especially if you're just dipping your toes in. - Patrick Jordan

in my history of addiction to, and then disposal of, personal organizing tools, I can say that Things and I had a delightful relationship, while it lasted. It's a great design. - Que Sarah Sarah

The only things that stop me from using Things is the lack of OTA sync and the fact that you can't separate projects enough. For example, I want to have personal projects distinct from work projects and I want to look at either one or the other. As it is right now, Things shows them all mixed together. There are tacky ways around this but they're just that: hacky. There are a few other issues with Thiings (such as no sub-projects) but the other two are deal-killers for me. - Akiva

Hmm. I can see this being a real issue for me. Subprojects are kind of a must, especially since I like to approach things piecemeal. Argh. So it's starting to sound more and more like I should be looking at Omnifocus instead. - Mike Nayyar

Ergh. Omni is $30 more for the Mac app, $10 more for the iPhone app. $40 bucks more for OTA, subprojects? - Mike Nayyar

Fuck it. I'm going Things. I'm not ninja enough for Omnifocus yet. I'll rely on Cultured Code to make some updates. - Mike Nayyar

To prove how fickle I am, I was mulling over this last night while staring at Things in the App Store, and it hit me that, with the impending release of iOS 5 & Lion and iCloud, it would make sense to wait a bit until the release of that in the fall before jumping onto either, to see the iCloud integration (which theoretically would solve OTA sync issues). I have to imagine the developers of Things and Omnifocus are working feverishly on getting this iCloud stuff into their apps. They would have to... - Mike Nayyar

I don't expect software with existing solutions to drop what they have for iCloud just because it's there. OmniFocus has been beta-testing their own OTA server solution for awhile now (and it's been flawless for me so far). Cultured Code has been working for years on a customized solution for Things and are in beta of that now (I'm on the beta but it's a bit useless to me as they haven't yet rolled out device sync; there's no way they're going to throw away all of that work. Who knows what OmniGroup will do as I do believe their OTA server solution is basically WebDAV. - Akiva