If you organise your tasks by Areas, you’ll also find that the Anytime view has far too much spacing. As soon as you add a couple, it becomes a bloated, stretched-out scrolling experience. As a result, a project heading takes up a huge amount of screen real estate. Since you can put a note under a Project, it provides ample space there. I would say that the design of Things 3 is pretty, but that its beauty is only skin deep.įor starters, Things 3 uses far too much white space. In general, I’m surprised at how everyone is falling into the Shiny New Toy trap. I’ve played around with it a bit, but just out of sheer curiosity. Ideally, OF would learn a few things from Things 3 (bulk-edit, pop-up cards, long-scrolling forecast view, etc.) but keep OF’s power. I’m going to spend a week or so with it to see it it works better for me. So in that respect it’s pretty close to ideal for me. The built-in views in Things 3 mimic what I’ve set up for myself in OF pretty closely. But when it comes right down to it, I find that OmniFocus serves me best with just a handful of custom perspectives. I am a long-term user of OmniFocus and intersted in all the scripting and other things that it does. (YES, this is petty, but I find that the aesthetics of my home screen are important, particularly for an app wher ethe beauty of the rest of the interface is a selling point) ugly app icon (with really weird, inconsistent square shapes) - they should replace it with their more iconic “Inbox” icon.can’t have the equivalent of subfolders just one level of “Areas” that contain Projects.the forecast view, which presents a single, long scrollable list, is much betteer than the tap-instensive version OF includes.flexible/powerful repeating items (once you understand them).efficient information display with the pop-up cards.I was also intrigued engough by the UI and playing around with the Mac demo of Things 3 to spring for the iOS versions. But then again, we’ll have to see how it impacts the rest of the user workflow. Perhaps a kanban style board to represent projects? Maybe it’s something different beyond the typical list view we have. I do hope that OmniFocus 2 starts incorporating other UI features. I’m guessing that OmniFocus 2 Standard edition hasn’t been able to gain traction yet despite having a slimmer feature set that is geared to OmniFocus newcomers. Then when I hear the seams starts creaking under a heavier workload, I might switch to OmniFocus 2.ĭoes anyone else have an idea of what the different types of users that will be attracted to others? I can see myself starting off in Things 3 because it is easier to assimilate. Todoist, Asana: For users who work in a collaborative environment and need to share lists/projects with each other. OmniFocus 2: For users who have a projects with different defe/start dates and work in complex contexts. Especially popular if you don’t rely heavily on the GTD methodology. Things 3: for users looking for a simpler solution that features more of a checklist type of app. I wonder how to classify the different types of users… Things 3 is new and very shiny but doesn’t seem to support the way I think. With tags or multiple contexts on the horizon for Omnifocus I’m more than happy to stay. Not excessively, it’s a quality app but I can see having to pay for iPhone and iPad separately causing raised eyebrows. Repeating tasks can’t exist in projects.No nested tasks, checklists nice but not as flexible.No control over grouping or sort order. ![]() Interaction of Start and Deadlines is a little unclear.Deadlines appear to have no purpose, no clear warning as they pass.Easy to lose things by giving it a future date. Tag filters are only additive, can’t exclude.Tag filters can’t be saved like perspectives. ![]() Transferring some of my routine tasks across as an experiment I appreciated the refinement of the UI but soon found myself frustrated or confused by their underlying model. It’s still got all almost all the idiosyncrasies and omissions of Things 2 that turned me off before or gave me no compelling reason to switch. It looks lovely, it’s a fantastic redesign and I do especially like their Today view and calendar integration. Spent an evening with Things 3 on iPad (I was curious).
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