Potion Factory seeking beta testers for The Hit List iPhone

I'm a huge fan of The Hit List. Being a TV producer, I'm always on the road, and need to keep track of my todos, so the lack of an iPhone app has driven me crazy. However, just found 2Do, which syncs The Hit List with my iPhone just how I want it to. Blogged about it here:

http://www.jokeandbiagio.com/2do-from-guided-ways-new-iphone-app-for-getting-things-done

Hope it's okay to share the link, just very excited and a huge fan of The Hit List. Now that it syncs to my iPhone, I feel like I can get on with my life!

Bah. "Competitions" to get into a beta are counter productive. You need to throw it at a wide base of real users and see what happens.

I was a Things user who switched to THL after MacHeist. I waited months and months for an iPhone app, but nothing happened. Now there's a glimmer of hope, but you have to enter a *contest* to get to use a beta.

Nope, sorry.

In the meantime, I switched back to Things, then to paper after reading Todoodlist (http://www.todoodlist.com/). While it's nice to have everything backed up and synched, mapping my projects out on paper feels much more natural, and keeps me aware of the big picture in a way that little granulated text entries didn't. (I also get to colour it in; sounds dumb, but it works for me.)

Hopefully, Andy knows that in order to maintain competitiveness, he'll need to include functions which Things lacks. Web syncing is one of them.

I wonder how long before one of the really good GTD apps for desktops allows syncing over the net. AFAIK, they seem to require wifi on the same network, which doesn't help if you forgot to sync or had WiFi turned off to save the battery. RTM is online, sure, but Things and Hitlist work better on the desktop.

Please with sugar on top

Tasker is a new iPhone competitor in this field too. It looks like it will grow pretty handily into a much better app than things. Its already got maps integration and the itunes page lists repeating tasks and lists/projects as coming in updates very soon:

http://www.taskerapp.com

My biggest complaints about things is its weird date handling and no repeating tasks. Tasker already handles dates much better than things and i'm sure they'll do the same for repeating tasks. Plus i love flying around the maps and seeing each task where I need to get it done.

The Hit list also handles dates and repeating tasks better than things so i'm sure they're iphone version wont disappoint.

donnacha said 7:24PM on 9-01-2009
"Frankly, for iPhone users, Things is a pile of crap."

It's my favorite iPhone app. A lot of other users like it also.

You don't speak for all iPhone users. As far as the forum, they sucked because of ignorant users such as yourself. Thank god they cleaned them up. Hopefully they won't let you crap all over them again.

The forums with you = useless. Without you = helpful once again.

You have some kind of strange obsession with hating things. Go use something else or get some therapy please.

Not a moment too soon? Sad to say it — I do like the app — but it's months and months too late. The pace of progress has been so glacial that it's impossible to have faith in its future development; I can't let myself become dependent on an app without that.

I want in. I have the desktop app, and need it for my iPhone.