The Hit List enters public beta

The difference between heavyweights and lightweights in this category: the ability to easily get bulk information into the task list. Sure there's a quick entry window, but no quick way to get the text of an email message, the selected Safari content, or other random text into THL without exhaustive typing or copy and paste. No Quicksilver integration, and no easy way to email yourself a task. This is where Things (too simple) excels, Omnifocus (too complicated) gets points, and iGTD (too ugly) really knocks it out of the park. None of these apps are as pretty as THL, but the ability to get information into your GTD app quickly is huge. I'm playing with Applescript to do this myself, but any developer who wants to sell their GTD app for $70 should be doing this kind of service integration themselves.

I really wanted to try out THL and of what I've heard I thought of it to be way better than Things. But now that I've tried it myself I find it quite more complicated than Things and I suspect the time I'm going to save by using a GTD app will be spent into operating THL itself. OmniFocus is even more complicated and time consuming to use. I think I'll stick with Things.

I only bought Things a couple of days ago, maybe I shouldn't have... THL is really nice.

But maybe with the ability to create so many lists so freely I'd just make it all too complicated. The simplicity of Things is a good thing. Plus it has an iPhone app. As soon as one comes out for THL I'll probably switch.

When you type Mario Brothers or Star Wars and mark it off of your list it plays the music to both. It's kinda cool.

Argh! Another leopard only release! Everything is becoming leopard only. I wouldn't mind upgrading, but with Snow Leopard just around the corner (maybe?), I don't want to upgrade twice.

Beautiful, elegant interface. A notch above Things - which I loved. The bummer is (and this holds true for Things as well) the necessity of syncing with a client computer. I've switched to Toodledo on the Firefox / ToDo on the iPhone and the ability to sync to the cloud and add tasks by voice via Jott make them indispensable. However, I sure wish someone would write a pretty front end client like this for Toodledo with a nice hot-key HUD as well. Keep your eyes on this, TUAW. I'd like to see where they go

Looks nice. Be sure an post about this again when and if the iPhone sister application is released.

This is a really cool app.

I never really liked Things for some reason and even though I use Omnifocus at the moment, the Inspector window really annoys me (No I'm not just repeating what TUAW says....it really is the most annoying thing about about Omnifocus, they have to redesign the app)

The Hit list could be my next favorite app, but I just think that ALL these glorified To-Do lists are way to expensive.

this is pretty impressive. get me away to import my data into and
i'll test it out. That really is the main holding me back from really trying these other systems is the lack of importing other data. I'm not about to screw out trying to figure it out.
As someone who has been using Omnifocus, really need to change up it's apperance and interface really quickly. It just feels so stiff and not friendly. I thought this was the Delicious Monster age of Mac apps or something?

I love that the whole "THL sits nicely between Omnifocus and Things" mantra. TUAW should have just recycled the old review.

If you love the next shiny thing to come along, THL is very pretty, though it looks almost too much like things. But it's mostly cosmetic (sound effects, lined notebook paper-- ugh). You can do basically the same in all 3 applications, but its simply easiest in Things.

"I wanted a place where I could keep complicated to-do lists"

I love this. David Allen would have a heart attack. There is no such thing as a complicated todo list, although it may be fun to say.