Midnight Inbox finally hits 1.0

Ryan, you are totally right. This app is bad on so many levels, bad buggy code and really difficult and unintuitive to use. Do yourself a favour and give this one a miss.

I wanted to do something as simple as create a task from an email. I needed to research something and then reply to the email. Can you create a task associated with an email? Not to my knowledge. Can you drag an email onto the organize section to create a new task? No. Can you right click anything to get a contextual menu? No. Is this application useless? Yes. Does it run like treacle? Yes. Does it make you less productive? Yes.

This is a classic example of an application that does the exact opposite of what it's supposed to do.

I downloaded version 1.0 last night and worked with it. To me it seems like one of those products that claims to streamline your life, but in actuality requires more effort than it should. Although the product collects data and organizes things like it says it does, it requires a great deal of understanding and time in order to set the thing up in such a way that it will actually help you with your tasks.

Perhaps if I had a profession where my tasks didn't need to be done immediately, this would help me organize them. However, as it stands, being a designer requires I respond to emails and tasks as quickly as they appear. This app just isn't for me.

Tried a previous version before. It looks "interesting" but simply doesn't work. Crashes all the time. I'm sticking with Circus Ponies Notebook for the moment, until a real GTD app comes along. And one that works.

A bit of a cheek to ask for money for Inbox. It's just not ready for release...

I've been using it since it's release yesterday, and for me the speed is reasonable (not insanely slow), and I'm not having the crashes reported by others. So far I'm really liking it and plan to buy it.

Actiontastic and even ThinkingRock (if you'd forgive its interface) are still my choices.

I tried inbox in an earlier beta. It was pretty.

I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to use it. It could be that it was TOO obvious for me, I'm not sure.

I settled on OminOutliner + kGTD apple script. Lovely for me.

The copy of Inbox I just downloaded says it's version 1.0.0 and no, it doesn't seem to be stable. Put something in the trash, and it still appears in the process list. Empty the trash, and the app crashes.

Inbox has the most promise of all of the GTD apps I've looked at - though Omni's offering will be one to watch. I just hope the author spends a significant amount of time making it rock-solid stable before adding bells and whistles.

"Also, my teeth are whiter and my jeans feel looser!"

Better than your teeth feeling looser and your jeans getting whiter!

You might want to keep in mind this is still a pre-release version. This is from the front page of their site "Midnight Inbox is available as a pre-release preview. 1.0 is coming shortly."

The idea is good and it's a beautiful app, but it's slow as heck. This definitely needs more work. I had to quit using it, because it was eating resources, slowing me down instead of speeding me up. :-)