#Todoist or omnifocus for mac
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The vast majority of my tasks don’t need a specific category, or spatial triggers, or anything: they just need to be in a list. I don’t use 2Do because it’s too complicated and pushes me too hard into the GTD direction. After it, the interface is perfectly fine, but still lacks the hours of pixel-perfecting that Cultured Code has clearly thrown into Things. It has everything you need for the patented-and-proven GTD method.īefore the flat redesign, 2Do was much less attractive than Things. Its search interface rivals that of an SQL client.

#Todoist or omnifocus android

While Things circles around the target of sync, 2Do has grown features in every other direction: scheduling, search, spatial, an Android client in addition to iOS. 2DoĢDo is the spiritual successor to Things, in my book. While Things supports a Dock badge representing a number of tasks to complete, the number within the UI is pretty de-emphasized. The satisfaction of getting something out of the way was tempered by this UI. Viscerally, I didn’t like completing tasks in Things that much: the task became grey, and to get rid of it you actually need to click a button. Not that I love web clients for interfaces, but seeing my todos in a web interface is a solid guarantee that those are synced and real, whereas hoping my MacBook and iPhone find each other on an unreliable home wifi network makes me worry something will be lost in the void. I don’t use Things now because there’s no web client. Their early implementations were what drove me away - sometimes todo list items would disappear, or on sync turn up empty. Things is a good piece of software that got lost on the eternal quest to sync: they started on a sync solution over 6 years ago and are still working on a solution. This was before flat design homogenized interfaces, before the Mac App Store gaslighted downloadable software.

#Todoist or omnifocus for mac

It’s a relic of the age of Panic and OmniGroup: companies that would build beautiful user interfaces for Mac users who would gladly pay significantly more than 99 cents for their perpetual licenses. Things is one of those pieces of software that has been painstakingly improved over years and years of hard work by brilliant people.

If you like having a score, use Todoist.

I have used all of them: here is what I have learned.