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Chilli X seeks the savage wit of TUAW readers

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 30th, 2008)

iPhone developers Chilli X are looking for a little help with the App Store promo materials for their new ToDo list app, Done. First, though, a little bit about Done. You're probably thinking, "there are too many task lists available for the iPhone, and they all do the same thing." You'll get no ...

Things 1.0rc now available

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 29th, 2008)

Cultured Code has issued the 1.0 release candidate for Things, its popular GTD application, a little more than a week ahead of its official launch on January 6. Things 1.0rc has a huge list of changes including new icons, the ability to reorder to-dos in the Today list across project and area ...

The Hit List takes aim at OmniFocus and Things

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 18th, 2008)

The Hit List, from the Potion Factory, is a new task management application set to go head-to-head with Things and OmniFocus. We haven't seen a lot of waves in the advanced, visually polished task manager wars lately, but this one is going to storm the gates. I tend to get overexcited about new ...

Friday Favorite: Curio

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 12th, 2008)

I've been looking for a project management solution for a long, long time. I've tried everything from homemade systems -- based on folders and Spotlight tagging -- to attempting to bend applications such as Bento to do what I really want: collect my notes, work-in-progress files, communications and ...

TaskPaper 2.0: serious task list mojo

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 5th, 2008)

TaskPaper, a list management application from the author of WriteRoom, was recently updated to version 2.0. Back at version 1.0, it was an instant favorite among some TUAW bloggers. Beyond simple list management, it's really a very full-featured task manager which revolves around the idea of utter ...

Things (finally) adds global search

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 1st, 2008)

Things, one of the top contenders in the Mac GTD application lineup, has updated to 0.9.6 on their way to a planned 1.0 release at the Macworld Expo. The update includes some interface polish, but the biggest news is the addition of global search. It's been one of the most requested features, and ...

ActionGear, simple yet powerful task management

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 28th, 2008)

ActionGear has been out for a while, but I think it deserves a mention as a potentially great task-management app, falling somewhere between iCal or a bare bones outliner such as TaskPaper, and the robust end of the scale where Things and OmniFocus are duking it out. Within ActionGear's simple ...

Tasks in the cloud: VITO Technology's Task2Gather

by Steven Sande (Sep 10th, 2008)

Another big PDA developer has made the jump to iPhone, with longtime Windows Mobile developer VITO Technology announcing their first product for the Apple platform -- Task2Gather. It's a task manager with a difference. Task2Gather stores all of your tasks "in the cloud", where they're not only ...