The Hit List - 0.9.3.18

There aren't words to express how many and for how long I've been test driving task management tools for Mac OS X. To date none of them have been good enough to keep me from test driving every new planning and tracking-related application that shows up for the Mac; a seemingly futile search for a tool that actually leverages the killer features of Mac OS X and does so intelligently. I have wasted WAY too much time tinkering with tools in the hopes of finding a usable, helpful feature set, tools which include the following:

• OmniOutliner (Kinkless)
• OmniFocus (oddly enough the one I anxiously awaited, paid for and have since thoroughly ditched! As a fan and advocate of OOP and OGP I have no idea how they botched this one so horrendously )
• Things (“vapory-ware”always making promises using “eventually…”)
  iGTD
• Midnight Inbox
• Pluto Menubar
• Ready-Set-Do!
• ToDoist
• Tadalist
• meinKOPP
• Frictionless
• Thinking Rock
• DeJumble
• Contactizer
• EasyTask Manager
• ZenTask
• Together
• NovaMind
• MindManager
• ad infinitum

Thanks to The Hit List I will not waste another second of my finite lifespan test-driving task management tools. I stumbled upon The Hit List accidentally having otherwise never seen or heard a peep about this unsung Mac app. For the first time I found myself sitting in front of a Mac-based activity planning and tracking tool that had me smiling. An application that today helps me manage all of my activities without getting in my way. The granular control available for organizing items into strategic viewing sets that are personally relevant is nothing short of awesome! This is a great example of the Apple-esque tandem of elegant simplicity and power in action. Combined with the Anxiety HUD application my workflow is impeccably fluid.

What’s more? The Hit List feels feature complete and it’s not even at 1.0 yet. Note that I haven’t tried the iPhone sync capability yet so I cannot comment on whether it’s solid yet or not. But everything else is definitely on the level. This is the real deal folks, and about damned time!