Throughout my computer years I’ve tried many outline, scheduling, calendar, GTD and todo-list applications to help me conquer my organizational woes. And I got rid of every single one of them, the click with my brain just didn’t happen and I was left as chaotic as before.
Now there’s Things, a new kid on the block, and a strange thing has happened: I use it (almost) every day to organize my tasks… for two months already.
Things is a clever little application. Clever in a way that it doesn’t force me too much and gives me room to mess about. You can even use it the Getting Things Done way, if that’s your thing. Now don’t get me started on GTD, it’s absolutely not my thing and I’ve become extremely allergic to anything GTD related. The method itself doesn’t work for me, but that’s not my biggest problem, it’s the whole community that has risen around it. A community almost resembling a bunch of religious zealots, preaching the GTD evangelism. But that’s just me and I’m digressing a bit.
The good thing is, you can use Thing the way you like it. And now there is an update that integrates it with the Leopard system-wide to-do system, so you have access to your tasks in Mail and iCal. Joy!
Things is available as a free Mac-only preview, the final version is going to be released sometime this spring. Go check it out.
gr.jakko
