Things (finally) adds global search

On the surface, Things looks nice. But after I dug a little deeper, I lost interest. Its interface just felt too clunky and limited once I tried working with a larger amount of data. Although, it's good to hear that global search was finally added. I'm sure that helps.

I also didn't care much for the organizational tools provided by Things. I know tagging is trendy these days, but relying on it entirely in Things just didn't work for me. Things just felt more and more opaque and bogged down as I added more stuff and increased the complexity of my projects.

I've since tried OmniFocus and have been astounded at its flexibility and power. Wow, it was like night and day compared to Things. OmniFocus is more expensive, but I guess you get what you pay for.

Oh, and OmniFocus looks better too; it's interface is cleaner and less cluttered. But clearly that's a matter of opinion. ;-)

The Things developers have got to get scheduled tasks working in projects. It makes no sense that they work in "areas of responsibility" but not projects. The lack of this one feature is making me lose interest in Things. Without some way of postponing future tasks, there's too much to juggle when you have a lot of tasks.

OmniFocus 1.0 was a usability disaster but I'm trying OF 1.5 and so far liking it.

Both of these programs would benefit from being able to add appointments to projects, rather than just todos. They'd have to be able to sync to iCal to be truly useful though.

Things... how I love thee, let me count the ways.

Seriously though, a few of months I was looking for a good To Do List app, and I came across Things. Great app, it works exactly the way I need it to. The developer is doing a great job with it, and I will definitely be buying a licensing the day it officially launches.

I would have traded 'search' for a 'review' button, or a place that included every active entry regardless of location so I can review myself. Since I've been using the team attributes already (I drag my items to people on my bonjour group so I know who I've assigned it too), and I use quite a bit of projects, I can lose track of things easy, killing my reviewing... and that kills my GTD experience.

In regards to Quine's comment, I think Omnifocus has an ugly interface, Things is quite elegant and designer cool to the contrary!

...and I second ipodrulz:)

Global search may be the most requested feature in Things. But here in TUAW I just want to view the full TUAW experience on my iPhone!

I started using Things about two weeks ago, and I must say that I love it. The fact that it has the idea of a mailbox, makes it that you are really going to do the tasks, which is normally not the case.

Cheers

I tried out things, but I wasn't a big fan of its interface. I'm very happy with omnifocus instead. I'll give this a look though.

Nice, I was thinking about buying a license. One question: will I get iPhone app for free if I buy desktop app?