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Omnifocus
I think Omnigroup needs to implement .mac syncing in Omnifocus, same as Yojimbo has. See also my comment (MPARAS) on http://lifehacker.com/343284/omnifocus-now-shipping
totally
I couldn’t agree with you more, manp, and I hope I’m not speaking too far out of school to say that dependable sync (which maintains impeccable data integrity) is a very popular topic at OG. IMO, they do know it’s really important to us user types.
SnūzNLūz
I've seen this story a lot throughout the blogosphere lately, and I'm absolutely astonished by the fact that nobody seems to notice that the SnūzNLūz is nothing but a clever April Fool, one of the many fictional products invented by the guys at ThinkGeek on an yearly basis to make fun of naïve geeks browsing the shop.
More info here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/
Re: SnūzNLūz
Never underestimate my gullibility. Heck, I voted for Nader.
Such a good idea though!
Since it isn’t April, I had my guard down for this one. Thinkgeek usually has clever April Fools products. This one I would truly buy. I think $10 is enough money to make me actually wake up and think about what I’m doing. That’s the problem with snooze. The negative return on not getting up at that moment isn’t realized immediately enough. If I knew I’m giving away $10 every time I did it, I think I could stop.
Things - very, very nice beginnings
Been looking for a GTD app that fits like a favorite old pair of work boots, and just does what I need it to do without being fussy.
Big request, since I’m not only new to GTD, but also new to being organized. Not new to getting things done when they’re repetitive or “known,” but new to getting things done when I’m the one deciding what gets done, when, why, how, and for whom.
Things is simple enough to “get out of your way” and let you use minimal structure. But smart features let you get some things really right for yourself. For example, using tagging and then letting you filter by multiple-select tags and multi-level tags is simplicity made extensible.
I like it.
I feel the same way
Things has that magic combo that only the really classic applications tend to have: a simple data model that can be used in creative ways to do powerful things and a carefully polished user interface, with nothing extraneous and features you want in the right places. I really like it.
OmniFocus is the exact opposite: a data model with baked-in structure and not much potential for variation, and a user interface that needs a lot of work. I don’t dislike OmniFocus really, and I’d suggest to everyone to try it, but Things is adorable.