[wdiadamo]

Originally Posted by wilsonng

I agree.... Forecast is the best part for someone like me who has a deadline-driven life.

This is kind of my point; why can't we have this on the Mac? I won't repeat all the stuff in my previous post, but even thought Omni does not like to pre-announce, can we get a hint here? i know this is unfair (and the reason why Omni doesn't want to talk), but Brian at Omni was talking about 2.0 in May 2009, over three years ago: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=12087

[LanWoo]

One thing about Things that I really don't like is the information overload you get when you click on 'Next'. It always shows all your tasks by default. Ok sure you can click on different tags in the bar on top, but it still annoys me that everytime you click on it you see everything that's available, also the tasks you can't do in your particular context of that moment.

Is anyone else annoyed by this or is it just me?

Details like this always make me come back to OF where I only see what I choose to see.

[wilsonng]

Originally Posted by LanWoo

One thing about Things that I really don't like is the information overload you get when you click on 'Next'. It always shows all your tasks by default. Ok sure you can click on different tags in the bar on top, but it still annoys me that everytime you click on it you see everything that's available, also the tasks you can't do in your particular context of that moment.

Is anyone else annoyed by this or is it just me?

Details like this always make me come back to OF where I only see what I choose to see.

Yeah, a lot of folks will miss the power of perspectives and it takes quite a bit of a learning curve to finally understand perspectives. I love OmniFocus perspectives and the ability to focus or view my projects/tasks in different ways.

If only there was another workflow to perspectives that makes it easy for beginners to digest and power users to fully harness... *sigh*

[LanWoo]

Originally Posted by wilsonng

Yeah, a lot of folks will miss the power of perspectives and it takes quite a bit of a learning curve to finally understand perspectives. I love OmniFocus perspectives and the ability to focus or view my projects/tasks in different ways.

If only there was another workflow to perspectives that makes it easy for beginners to digest and power users to fully harness... *sigh*

Yeah idd. It took me quite a long time to figure it out, but I'm glad I did :)

[daltongreen]

I have noticed the same issue. My problem with regard to Things 2 is this: while it allows for repeating tasks, you can't associate a repeating task with a project. That combined with the lack of subtasks makes Things 2 useless to me. :( I sure am ready for some Omnifocus updates, though - such as being able to see project-based perspectives on the iphone or ipad, some sort or prioritization options, even if it's allowing the use of task duration on the iphone and ipad. Of course, I would also love to be able assign multiple contexts to a task. Even with those shortcomings, Omnifocus is still the best thing out there for my workflow.

[whpalmer4]

If you construct a context-based perspective on the Mac that sorts, groups, or filters by duration, that perspective will work on the iOS apps...

[jasong]

Prompted by this thread (and the marketing of Things 2), I figured I'd see how it's improved.

You know that saying about "one man's treasure is another man's trash"?

Yeah.

Within five minutes of using Things, I knew it's still not for me. Here are a couple of things that bugged me (or are outright showstoppers for my workflow):

* When creating a new project, you can't just start typing the name in immediately; you have to double-click to go into "editing mode".

* All your actions show up under your projects in the Next view on iPad, with no way of limiting it to just the "next action".

* Completed items also show up in your Next view on iPad.

* On iPad, the projects list is this weird view that's a (poor) graphical representation of a "book" or something.

* When creating a new project, fields are ordered: Project name, Tags, Due Date, Notes, but the tab order is Project name, Tags, Notes, skipping over Due Date. But if you tab to Notes, then shift-tab to go back, you go Notes to Due Date. That makes no sense!

* When a project is selected under Active Projects, there's no way to delete that project. You have to go to the Projects Focus section, select the item from that list and delete from there.

There's no way to automatically only show the actually actionable item for a project, to easily manage projects, etc.

Overall, Things feels more like a "to do list": you make a big list of all the little things you want to do at some point and you review them to select which items on that list you'll do "today".

It does not feel like a GTD app in the slightest to me.