I don’t use it much now, but location tasks seems really cool to remind you to do things when you get there. This has the best filters i’ve ever seen for any todo app.
The custom perspectives is awesome because it goes straight to the type of tasks I want, kind of saved searches. I like how I can see a list of tags from every project without need to search for them.
I don’t use it much, but I like the picture attachments. The UI looks very similar to OF 2, but it feels a lot easier to use.
I still bought their mac and ios apps because it’s probably the best UI i’ve seen since the app store launched, and I figure it would help me get more stuff accomplished because it’s so well made.Then Omnifocus 3 came out. Their page says they may include adjustable fonts in the future, and that the default size is fine for all modern macs. For an example they told a user they had no plans to include picture attachments and didn’t tell them why, and another user said they have a 5k mac and the font is too small. They took way too long to come out with cloud support with Things, and they do a poor job with updates and communicating with their community. You weren’t allowed to talk about the competition in their forums, and they shut it down because Things 3 was by years so it got pretty toxic. I bought things 3 because it was gorgeous and extremely user friendly, but I don’t like the developer. Omnifocus 1 and 2 gave me headaches, and I felt like I was configuring my tasks more than actually getting things done. I feel like I used every major todo app on the app store since 2009, and I’m finally settling with Omnifocus 3. Thanks again for all of your comments, I’ll stick around the forum to see if I can learn any new bits about OF3! The reality is, I don’t think I’ll ever get to that point.
I use my Mac a lot, and wanted something instantly which was going to work perfectly - With OF3 for Mac not coming out for a while, I didn’t want to get annoyed by the little discrepancies it currently has.There is something very pleasing about using Things3 - I would never chose a task manager based on look, but if all things are equal, it goes a long way in helping to make your decision.I predominantly use the today/upcoming views on Things - Again, because I don’t have a huge amount of tasks to do, I find this a very easy way to look at my to do’s.If I did want to have saved searches for tags/context, I’d certainly use OF. I’m not a big user of tags/contexts, so that rules out one of the negatives of Things.Whilst OmniFocus does indeed cater for big and small, I found it to be a little overbearing with such few tasks. I don’t have a large project library or many to do’s.The reasons behind that are very specific to me and my workflow, but here it is:
To give you guys an update (and to anyone else who stumbles across this thread) - I’m currently giving Things3 my full attention. I’ll reiterate… This community is hands down one of the best things about OmniFocus. Again, I just want to say thank you for all of your answers.