I have learned how to get organized by using Things. Never has an application so changed the way I worked. That said, the lack of sync between Things and Things Touch has actually caused me to consider switching to OmniFocus. It just seems a little deeper than I want to go. For now I'll wait for Things to get sync.

I'm not much of a "poster", but I thought I'd share this with anyone who's looking for a good GTD app.

I wanted an app that worked well with my Mac, my iPhone, and was accessible on the Web. After trying Remember the Milk, OmniFocus, Tada List, Vitalist, Toodledo, and a couple of others, I decided on Nozbe.

I recommend you roll up your sleeves and do this: First, read Getting Things Done. Download it, read it, listen to it, listen to the podcasts, re-read it, re-listen to it, mark it up, obsess on it wrestle with it, and let it mess with your mind until your head explodes. Then, fit your head back together in a new way. Ahem. Sorry, it's getting late.

Anyway, the point is, DON"T go off using one of these apps without fully getting GTD. GTD is waaaaay cool and you don't want some twisted GUI to get in between your mind and the System. I can't stress this enough. GTD is NOT an application. It is not "Outlook" or "iCal" or bananas. It is a personal productivity system that transcends electronics.

OK. So then, try doing it all on paper. OK, most of us don't want to do this, but if you can, then at least try it. Even if your efforts on paper lead to frustration, your frustration will actually help you find the right GTD app because you will better understand what the app needs to accomplish.

Then, try all of the apps I mentioned above. You might want to create 20 or so projects and respective "next actions", and "contexts." If you want to really, really test the crap out of a bunch of apps to see which one passes the tough truck test, then go nuts for a couple of weeks and use several apps simultaneously tracking all of your projects.

No kidding.

If you do this, you will quickly see how totally inane some GTD apps are. As I said, in the end, for me, Nozbe was the last app standing.

Have FUN with it.

Peace,
Joe

I was eagerly awaiting this app -- it was, in fact, a big chunk of what committed me to switching to the iPhone this time around (despite the 3.5 hour wait in line on 7/11). That Apple hasn't made the sync conduit available to developers sucks, and is why Omni does OTA webdav syncing. Lots of folks have reported problems using noncompliant free or cheap shared hosting webdav solutions, but I pointed OF at my Concentric account and had webdav up and running, under SSL, in about 5 minutes. Synchro is great -- you don't even notice it spinning except when you're in really marginal data connectivity range. Well worth the ~$100 ($80 for desktop and $20 for iPhone app).