But I do have Windows machines both at work and home. I think Macs are great (more specifically OS X). Unless of course I want to change something because I didn’t do something.įinally, they’re both only available for the Mac. Why? Because entering new tasks needs to be very fast and shouldn’t required that I do anything else to organize them beyond that initial entry. This is the definition of kludgy and is Things biggest limitation. What this means is that project and area associations must be manually created after the task is created via a wizard like menu system. But it doesn’t allow for anything but tags to be entered (associated) during task entry. All good things and allowing finer control over tasks than OmniFocus. ![]() Things has projects, areas, hierarchal tags, and people. Then again, nothing that I’m aware of offers that right now, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. A cross between relational organization and hierarchal organization would be super powerful. This is a good thing overall, but even there it would be nice to have a little more depth. It does, however, allow for hierarchal contexts. That’s a big deal, manual operations take half of the value out of a task management applications. It does have folders (aka groups), but that’s a completely different concept and requires manual organization. As a seeming result it doesn’t offer things like deep projects (projects with sub projects that have their own sub projects…ad nauseam…). OmniFocus being too structured appears to be the result of strict adherence to the GTD scheme. Nothing is ever perfect, but a couple small changes to either and my life would be so much easier. Omnifocus is a little too structured while Things is a little too loose and, even worse, manual. I would simply choose one, but they both have their limitations. I’m using them both just too see which one I end up using more and then I’ll stick with the winner. OmniFocus and Things are both great GTD/PIM/Productivity applications.
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