A To-do list is a very personal thing. Choose carefully...

So, if your’re here, and even CONSIDERING dropping $50 on a to-do list, that means you take your list (if not your acutal productivity) seriously.

When you read reviews of to-do list apps, there’s very little objectivity. Most of the time, you either like it or don’t, it either makes sense to the way you work or it doesn’t, and then you justify with reasons that may or may not be real.

For me, OmniFocus had things I coudn’t get over: tasks can only have one context, or tag (what?!), and you can’t drag to-do items from your inbox into your other projects…for some reason they’ve designed it so that when you’re in your inbox that’s the only thing you can see. That, along with its complexity (I expect to need an inspector for a word processor, but not a to-do list), made it less than desirable.

Of course, Things has its…well…. “things” that people dislike as well. You can’t nest tasks or projects. I don’t know why.

In the end, both Things and Omnifocus have free trials that you can get from their websites. Try them both and see what you like. Things is absolutely gorgeous (for some reason, Omnifocus is just not…no retina support but you don’t need a retina display to notice), it has every feature I could want (except maybe nesting, and the fact that I had to find a script to make it coordinate well with mail), but most importantly, like my favorite coffee mug, it just feels good when I use it.

PS: It’s significantly cheaper than Omnifocus

Chris the Teacher about Things