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Potion Factory seeking beta testers for The Hit List iPhone
Andy Kim with Potion Factory contacted us a few minutes ago to reveal that he is seeking testers for the upcoming closed beta of the iPhone version of The Hit List.Those wanting to be in the program are asked to submit how they best use The Hit List in their daily routine. From those entries, 10 people will be selected for the beta. Full rules are disclosed on Potion Factory's Web site. All entries must be received before September 21.
The iPhone version of The Hit List comes not a moment too soon. As indicated by the software's Google Group, users who adopted the program over the past year were migrating back to other GTD applications, such as Things, due to the lack of an iPhone app. As a fan of The Hit List, I was doing my best to hold out and see if an iPhone app would come along. I'm very happy not to be disappointed.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Tim said 3:25PM on 9-01-2009
Is the desktop app out of Beta yet? I paid for it, so I would rather see them finish that before moving on to another product.
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jack said 3:36PM on 9-01-2009
After all this time you're not disappointed simply because it's actually going to happen? Easily satisfied I guess.
Still pales in comparison with Things, and with the creator of iGTD now working for culturedcode, the hit list is in trouble.
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Megan Lavey said 3:38PM on 9-01-2009
Believe me, I'd been more disappointed if I had just shelled out the nearly $60 to get Things (desktop and iPhone)!
donnacha said 7:24PM on 9-01-2009
Frankly, for iPhone users, Things is a pile of crap. Despite promises when they starting charging last year, they still haven't implemented proper syncing - what is the point of having an iPhone app if, when you forget to perform a manual sync in the morning, your To-Do list if out of sync all day.
I would suggest to anyone considering blowing $60 on Things that they check out the swamp of complaints on their forum, but I can't - they took down their forum for a month and, when it returned, any post that wasn't entirely evangelistic about the product was deleted - and that was a LOT of posts.
Not a product that works as it should, not a company that behaves with any integrity.
facundo said 8:18PM on 9-01-2009
I had the MacHeist Bundle that included The Hit List, but they freeze the development for so much time in Mac and iPhone, that I decide to buy things the complete package (Mac and iPhone) and I´m VERY happy with it, so Hit List you lost a customer!
Jan Rychter said 5:34AM on 9-02-2009
Oh, I don't think The Hit List is in trouble because of Things. As an example, I bought Things and Things Touch, and then moved to The Hit List once it became available. It is just better (smoother, fits my workflow, great keyboard support, less rigid).
Things has great PR, but it isn't necessarily a great application once you start using it.
Tech Introvert said 3:36PM on 9-01-2009
And down goes potionfactory.com...
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Petar Smilajkov - Peconi said 3:45PM on 9-01-2009
GO TO www.iBetaTest.com and get over 7000 BETA TESTERS RIGHT NOW!
Wtheck? :)
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Lerico said 6:02PM on 9-01-2009
Is that a joke? after all this time of waiting... and it's not even in beta? he hasn't update the desktop program for quite a while saying he was working on the iphone app, and only now it's ready for beta...
and the context last till Sept 21 for TEN testers?
Will the length of Apple approval process, we won't see the app till like 2011
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Erik said 7:00PM on 9-01-2009
I want in. I have the desktop app, and need it for my iPhone.
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samu said 7:24PM on 9-01-2009
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.
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jack said 8:12PM on 9-01-2009
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.
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facundo said 8:21PM on 9-01-2009
Jack... I´m with you man!!!
donnacha said 10:50PM on 9-01-2009
@"Jack"
I was a paying customer with a legitimate complaint, and the real problem was not that they failed to deliver a feature but that they simply ignored their customers for six months, not just me but every single customers who had a legitimate issue.
If they had simply communicated with their customers and said "Sorry, we have had to reschedule that feature" there would not have been a problem and they would not have disillusioned so many customers, including many people who started out as staunch defenders.
I was only one of many, many people who made reasonable requests for some sort of response, in a 12-month period I made a total of 16 posts, so, sure, it must have been me who ruined the forum, thank God they managed to cleanse it.
The company has already been exposed for using sock puppet accounts on Get Satisfaction, so, I am pretty sure that you are actually someone from the company, few regular users would bother defending a company that censors its forums. Fortunately, you do not have the power to censor TUAW.
donnacha said 10:57PM on 9-01-2009
Yup, definitely a sock puppet account, only 4 comments:
1 comment on June 16th, then nothing until 3 comments today, 1 attacking Hitlist and promoting Things as an alternative, 1 attacking a criticism of Things, and 1 attacking Yojimbo.
Jurgen, have you no shame?
Skeeter said 8:30PM on 9-01-2009
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.
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Kenneth Criscione said 11:13PM on 9-01-2009
Please with sugar on top
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James W said 1:46PM on 9-02-2009
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.
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Grant said 2:05PM on 9-02-2009
Web syncing is officially on the Things roadmap at least.
lfauset said 4:29PM on 9-02-2009
Hopefully, Andy knows that in order to maintain competitiveness, he'll need to include functions which Things lacks. Web syncing is one of them.
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