Macworld Expo: Big things for Things

Things desktop is way overpriced. Should be $30 at the most and free for iPhone Things owners. It's still beta in a lot of ways.

Been using it for a year. Bought it the first day it was available. Beautiful UI, does everything I need. It saved me from omnifocus, and the hit list simply isn't as smooth.

And for those saying it's expensive, 50 bucks to help me get things done is not expensive. It's a few cents a day. Gruber was right. No matter the price some people are just cheap.

The Hit List seems to be better. No iPhone app yet either.

All these apps are a bit too expensive though. I am sure they take a decent amount of work and have a limited audience, but somehow there is space for 3 of them?

After having read the article about Things and Macworld Expo 2009, i decided to try it out.

I may not have been able to truly explore it properly, so i tried to synch it with my iCal. seeing that there was no entry for appointments and I had wanted a few more specific distribution of calendars, i decided that this was not a product for me.

I went back to my iCal and lost all my previous entries save the last backup in iCal. I was fortunate however, to have backed up in Time Machine....

good on those it works for though but unfortunately, not for me.

Cheers!

I've been using desktop Things since the very first public beta (which came out probably about a year ago) and I bought the license for 1.0 immediately and will buy another license for work. And naturally I have the iPhone version too. I think that pretty much sums up my opinion of the app :-)

(I am still very much looking forward to better syncing though.)

The price is fair in my opinion, yet I will not buy it just yet. Two days ago I started testing The Hit List, and for now there is at least tie if not a slight advantage for THL. But on the other hand THL is more expensive when is comes out of beta - something like $69 if I remember correctly :(

I'm using Things for half a year. The time before I used OmniFocus and RTM. Things is more easier, less waisting time to order you tasks, best iCal integration and I love the implementation of tags. I like it beause the software has a reduced feature set. The only actual negative point is that I often forget to sync the iPhone app. It should be integrated with in the standard sync.

$50? Way too much.

Personally, I recommend Toodledo. It's an online application, and as a result, not as pretty. But it's FREE, and has a ton of features. The iphone Toodledo application is only $3.95, works great, and syncs flawlessly. Not to mention, the sync is automatic. You do not have to be on the same network to sync. This is huge! Total cost for both applications with mobile-me type sync capabilities: $3.95.

You don't need to own the iPhone version to get the discount on the desktop app. Simply enter the coupon code, "thingspresale20", on the website and you'll get 20% off. It expires Jan. 15th.

On the subject of price, Omnifocus (biggest Things competitor) is $79.95, and their iPhone app is $19.99. I personally think Things is better, and it's still cheaper even at full price.

No thanks. The iPhone version is leagues behind the desktop app, which isn't exactly stellar, see Carlos Fonseca's comment earlier for the little things that don't quite make sense. I use Remember the Milk (rmilk.com) now with the iPhone app and while it does cost $25/year, works much better for me out of the box.