Midnight Inbox
Automatically organize & process your personal info.
Version: 1.4.3
Best I've seen
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: kenbotwinick Sunday, November 25 2007 @ 05:38 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
I've read Getting Things Done. I used Life Balance for years. I tried MyLifeOrganized on the PC. I looked at the new OmniFocus. Midnight Inbox is the BEST implementation of GTD that I've ever seen. Not only does it give you the tools to organize everything correctly, but it has three things none of the others have. 1) It has the proper workflow built into it to constantly guide you in the right direction. For instance, I've always known that while processing my inbox if I couldn't complete the task in 2 minutes I should just file it and move on. But I would always end up breaking that rule anyway. This program has a fantastic dialog that guides you through the workflow of processing new inbox items and even has a TIMER to remind you "Oh well I guess I can't actually get this done in two minutes. I should add it to a project..." GREAT! Other solutions force you to stick to the GTD rules on your own, which to me is half the battle which shouldn't be ignored. 2) The collections idea is FANTASTIC! FINALLY someone has realized all the other items on your computer that are actually new inbox items which need to be processed and lets you do so via the same GUI as your project list. And 3) It has the best GUI of all the apps, and I don't just mean pretty icons. The sidebar (once again) promotes good workflow. The status icons that tell you how many items are in each "folder" is a great idea. The text is incredibly readable. Come on people. We're MAC users. We're artistic and graphic design people. How come graphic design people haven't realized serif fonts have better readability? When you're looking at a HUGE list of projects and action items, you will get psychologically turned off immediately if it's not readable. Inbox does the best job I've seen of using white space, and proper font selection (size and serif) to make things readable. AND it has a nice warm color scheme. I don't care if it crashes every now and then as long as my data doesn't become corrupt. And the crashing should be fixed in the free upgrade to 2.0 anyway... I'm putting my money on this one because I think it's only going to get better. (I mean, hey, they're going to make an iPhone/iPod Touch version.) AND it's more reasonably priced than all the others. I'm buying it now before they realize they could be making more money. I suggest you do the same.
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