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Midnight Inbox finally hits 1.0
We've blogged about Midnight Inbox a few times before and have been tracking its progress through a rather buggy, but promising, beta phase. Well today Midnight Inbox, the first true GTD (Getting Things Done) app finally became a 1.0 app and it deserves a pat on the back for a job well done.
Midnight Inbox helps you: Collect emails, files, calendar and to-do items and notes automatically. Process all of your collected items into to-do items you can actually do when and where you are able. Organize those to-do items into projects you can track easily. Review your lists, projects, and collections to make sure nothing slips through the cracks. Work down your lists with a Zen-like focus.
Heck, I've only been using it for a few hours and already I feel more organized, more productive and less stressed. Also, my teeth are whiter and my jeans feel looser! Are you ready to get serious about getting things done? Well go check it out! You can download a 14-day trial, which is fully unlocked, feature-wise, and if you decide you can't live without it, it'll cost you $35 - a fair price to pay for streamlining your life, don't you think?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jay said 10:56AM on 12-06-2006
Great app! Excellent support! I'd be hard pressed to find anyone that works harder then these guys to create stunning Macintosh applications.
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cary said 10:23AM on 12-06-2006
wait...jeans feel looser in the waist or the crotch?
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Brian said 10:48AM on 12-06-2006
Uh, Cary...Laurie's a "she." Would it matter if her jeans were getting looser in the crotch?
(My wife points out demurely that yes, it would...it would mean her butt was getting smaller. Bonus, I suppose.)
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Bill I said 10:51AM on 12-06-2006
As late a 0.9.3 I was hearing reports that this program was "buggy as hell." Can anyone comment on whether MI is more stable? At 1.0 (and $35), I hope they've ironed most of those kinks...
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Laurie said 10:53AM on 12-06-2006
@ Brian - LOL : :) From your wife's mouth to g*d's ears :)
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Andrew Wickliffe said 11:13AM on 12-06-2006
I'm all for project management, but this whole GTD thing sounds a lot like Calvinistic approach to life... which isn't what a) I'm about, but also b) what a Mac is about...
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mauve said 11:03AM on 12-06-2006
Jay, you work for them don't you?
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Hendrik said 1:53PM on 12-06-2006
I spent roughly an hour reading the docs and setting it up, really liking it, too. When I tried to start Inbox the second time it just wouldn't start up. It's been dead since.
No sale. :(
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Henrik said 11:21AM on 12-06-2006
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. :-)
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Jesse said 12:35PM on 12-06-2006
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."
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Andrew said 12:34PM on 12-06-2006
"Also, my teeth are whiter and my jeans feel looser!"
Better than your teeth feeling looser and your jeans getting whiter!
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James Byers said 12:54PM on 12-06-2006
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.
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Alex said 1:28PM on 12-06-2006
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.
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Joel said 3:52PM on 12-06-2006
Actiontastic and even ThinkingRock (if you'd forgive its interface) are still my choices.
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Richard Alden Peterson said 3:42PM on 12-06-2006
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.
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Bushford said 5:03PM on 12-06-2006
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...
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Ryan Ford said 5:09PM on 12-06-2006
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.
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Jamie said 11:44PM on 12-06-2006
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.
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