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Product Description:
Task management has never been this easy.
Organize your tasks in an elegant and intuitive way. Things combines powerful features with simplicity through the use of tags and its intelligent filter bar. A Leopard style source list allows for quick and easy focusing. Together with a beautiful user interface, Things aims at the seemingly impossible: making task management both easy and fun.
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- The big picture. A Leopard style source list lets you easily focus without ever switching view modes or wrapping your head around filter criteria.
- A magical tag bar automatically appears when needed and adapts to the currently displayed list. It lets you drill down even the longest list of To-Dos. Hierarchical tags? We got you covered!
- Teamwork. Things offers convenient collaboration features. Easily delegate tasks to members of your team. (This is work in progress.)
- No columns! Whether it's multiple tags, dates or notes, To-Do items display their information on an as needed basis. No more space wasted by empty or irrelevant column cells!
- Out of your head, out of your way. A quick entry HUD lets you enter any idea the moment it hits you. Never let the thought of an unfinished business distract you again.
- Things even supports GTD, so if you're familiar and comfortable with GTD concepts, you'll feel right at home.
What's new in this version:
- Added Japanese localization
- Fixed an issue with repeating to-dos where repeating dates were calculated incorrectly when specifying, "Repeat yearly every 2nd Sunday in May", etc.
- Fixed problem that in some rare situations could result in repeating task templates to loose their repeating status and show a due date of 4000 or 4001.
- Email links in project notes are now saved.
- Fixed an issue where dragging a to-do from the Next list was not possible when view was filtered by due date.
- Due items now remain in the Today list if you detach their project from an area.
- Fixed an issue in the Quick Entry dialog where values entered in "Show in Today" were not saved.
- Regression in Quick Entry dialog. Added button (again) to select tags from drop-down list.
- Project notes are now included in the print view.
- Fixed an issue where the menu item "Move to Next" was not disabled for repeating to-dos.
- AppleScript. Fixed a bug where Things crashes when in edit mode while launching an AppleScript.
- Fixed an issue where area and project headers would show up multiple times in the Next list.
- Preferences. The hotkey option for the Quick Entry dialog is now disabled when unchecked.
- Fixed crash when syncing after deleting the library on the Mac (only when tags in areas were present on the iPhone).
- Help Book. Updated index and keyboard shortcuts.
- AppleScript. Fixed an issue where "delete every area" did not delete the last area.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
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Beautiful app 
- Version: 1.1.1, 5/10/2009 10:46AM PST
(5 of 6 users found this comment useful)
roostery
This is one of the most satisfying apps I've ever used, after many unsatisfactory experiences with To Do List and, in particular, GTD applications.
A trivial example representative of bigger picture: The first time I used Things, I was struck by its treatment of columns... or rather its use of flexible columns. Applications generally take the view that a column should always be a column, whether or not a particular row contains data. If, for instance, you have a column containing tags, the column is present (and of fixed width) whether a particular item has zero tags or ten. With Things, an item's tag column expands if it has more tags, and it's invisible if it has no tags. Sound like trouble? It really isn't. In fact, it's beautiful. Try it and see.
The bigger picture that this trivial example illustrates is that the developers of this app have really considered the user experience, right down to questioning why things need to be done the way they've "always been done." They've created a gorgeous, streamlined app that really (finally!) helps me work through my list of tasks. Complaints? I have only one: I wish that there were slightly more visual feedback when clicking a checkbox.
It's a pleasure to synch Things with the iPhone version. I know that some have expressed difficulty: I've never had a synch problem. Beyond that, the pace of development is steady, and fresh iterations tend towards the "useful enhancement" rather than the "window dressing" end of the spectrum.
I should say that I also own the desktop and iPhone versions of OmniFocus, which is another fine application. If Things didn't exist, I'd probably be firing up OmniFocus, but I'd wince just a little every time. It isn't as pretty, nor as intuitive as Things, and in an effort to provide flexibility for list tweakers, it sacrifices a measure of elegance. Let me be clear: OmniFocus does not suck. I just think that Things makes it easier and more pleasant to get things done.
A trivial example representative of bigger picture: The first time I used Things, I was struck by its treatment of columns... or rather its use of flexible columns. Applications generally take the view that a column should always be a column, whether or not a particular row contains data. If, for instance, you have a column containing tags, the column is present (and of fixed width) whether a particular item has zero tags or ten. With Things, an item's tag column expands if it has more tags, and it's invisible if it has no tags. Sound like trouble? It really isn't. In fact, it's beautiful. Try it and see.
The bigger picture that this trivial example illustrates is that the developers of this app have really considered the user experience, right down to questioning why things need to be done the way they've "always been done." They've created a gorgeous, streamlined app that really (finally!) helps me work through my list of tasks. Complaints? I have only one: I wish that there were slightly more visual feedback when clicking a checkbox.
It's a pleasure to synch Things with the iPhone version. I know that some have expressed difficulty: I've never had a synch problem. Beyond that, the pace of development is steady, and fresh iterations tend towards the "useful enhancement" rather than the "window dressing" end of the spectrum.
I should say that I also own the desktop and iPhone versions of OmniFocus, which is another fine application. If Things didn't exist, I'd probably be firing up OmniFocus, but I'd wince just a little every time. It isn't as pretty, nor as intuitive as Things, and in an effort to provide flexibility for list tweakers, it sacrifices a measure of elegance. Let me be clear: OmniFocus does not suck. I just think that Things makes it easier and more pleasant to get things done.
Development extremely slow 
- Version: 1.1.1, 5/10/2009 08:02AM PST
(3 of 7 users found this comment useful)
bonobo42
The app has great potential, unfortunately the development is very slow and the developers don't seem to care about what the users want - several longstanding bugs are still not squashed, even if the developers gave them "high priority" more than half a year ago.
Recently the atmosphere in the company's user forums had deteriorated massively, with many people complaining about the lack of responsiveness from the developers. Instead of replying to their users, the company decided to take down the link to the user forums from their homepage. So much for customer support.
I used the app for a long time from the early betas, since I am heavily invested in it it is not easy to find a replacement, but at the moment I would not recommend the app to any new user.
Recently the atmosphere in the company's user forums had deteriorated massively, with many people complaining about the lack of responsiveness from the developers. Instead of replying to their users, the company decided to take down the link to the user forums from their homepage. So much for customer support.
I used the app for a long time from the early betas, since I am heavily invested in it it is not easy to find a replacement, but at the moment I would not recommend the app to any new user.
There are a couple of things I would like to see added, and I've sent my request to the developer.
Things helps me organize and get the work done. It works!