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Remember The Milk adds Siri support

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 19th, 2011)

Remember the Milk is an online task management system that lets you create and sync tasks with your mobile devices. If you have the iPhone 4 or earlier, Remember The Milk users can install an iOS app that'll sync their tasks for them. But if you have an iPhone 4S, you can use Siri to add tasks ...

Daily Mac App: iProcrastinate

by Samuel Gibbs (Sep 20th, 2011)

Most of us have a love-hate affair with task management apps. We hate the fact that we have to use them, but love the fact that some of them really help us get stuff done. iProcrastinate, a free task manager for the Mac aims to fall into the love category. iProcrastinate helps you avoid its ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Producteev

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 29th, 2011)

Task management is something most loathe but have to do to keep productive. Producteev, a previously web and iPhone app focused task management service has just launched a Mac app. Producteev focuses on creating and managing tasks with the ability to connect those tasks with other people, ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Wunderlist

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 20th, 2011)

Have you ever found managing and syncing your task list more difficult than it really needs to be? Wunderlist is the answer. An incredibly simple, intuitive and good looking program, Wunderlist makes creating, syncing and clearing a list of tasks quick and easy. Either use the "Add your task ...

TaskPaper 2.2.3 in the Mac App Store with a big discount

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 5th, 2011)

Minimalists looking for a task manager should take a closer look at TaskPaper for OS X, which is now on sale at US$4.99, a $25 discount off its normal $29.99. The app recently launched in the Mac App Store, and Hog Bay Software dropped the price for a limited time to celebrate TaskPaper's ...

Sparrow gets AppleScript support, immediately put to use with OmniFocus

by Steven Sande (Feb 15th, 2011)

Sparrow, the sleek new email client for Mac OS X, was updated yesterday to improve speed, fix some minor bugs and add some limited AppleScript support. While the changes might not be apparent to many Sparrow users, they were apparently an inspiration to Don Southard, who immediately figured out a ...

Alarms helps out with 'productive procrastination'

by Brett Terpstra (Sep 16th, 2010)

I started playing with a new app called Alarms yesterday, and it's already become indispensable to me. It's rare that something fits so perfectly into my workflow that I don't think twice about the space it takes up in my (already frighteningly crowded) menubar. What is it, you ask? It's an ...

TaskPaper for iPhone, simplified to-do lists go mobile

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 23rd, 2010)

TaskPaper, from the developer of WriteRoom, has been around for a while, and we've been talking about it since version 1.0. After what seems like a long wait, TaskPaper for iPhone is out. The super-simple to-do list with surprisingly robust capabilities is now mobile, and syncs with the desktop ...

Omni Group bringing the Omni apps to the iPad

by Aron Trimble (Feb 2nd, 2010)

Famed OmniFocus developer The Omni Group has given a brief peak at their development roadmap. The Mac Observer reports that Omni will release OmniFocus, OmniPlan, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner and OmniGraphSketcher for the iPad. The Omni Group is pretty excited about what all the iPad has to offer ...

Potion Factory seeking beta testers for The Hit List iPhone

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 1st, 2009)

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 ...

OmniFocus for iPhone finally has reminders, but implementation is awful

by Jason Clarke (Jul 24th, 2009)

[Update] Ken Case comments below, addressing some of the concerns listed here. It looks like a future version of OmniFocus on the Mac will be able to directly update the OmniFocus reminders on the server, removing at least one of my complaints. Ken Case from The Omni Group has been twittering for ...

OmniFocus 1.6 checks off bugs and adds new features

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 13th, 2009)

The Omni Group just released OmniFocus 1.6, and it's a big, big update. Current users are going to be pleased, even if they don't bother to page through the extensive list of new features and fixes in the release notes. I've never said anything to the contrary, but this is proof that Omni is ...

Done goes live, Chillix announces winners

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 16th, 2009)

Done, the $0.99US iPhone task list manager we mentioned a little while back, is now live in the App Store. It's pretty slick, and falls right in the middle between a simple task list and a robust task management application like Things or OmniFocus. We hosted a contest in that last post, passing on ...

TimeXchange offers a time-tracking API

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 15th, 2009)

TimeXchange is a relatively new addition to the pile of available online time-tracking applications. Its current incarnation on the web is pretty standard, covering bases like multiple time entry, report and invoice creation, and Quickbooks integration. The developers have been fielding a lot of ...

The Hit List enters public beta

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 9th, 2009)

A few weeks ago, Brett wrote about his first impressions with The Hit List from Potion Factory, a task management application that goes toe to toe with OmniFocus and Things. He was extremely impressed with what the release, then just entering private beta, offered. "We haven't seen a lot of waves in ...