Nik's Favourite iPhone Apps: Things

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Nik's Favourite iPhone Apps: Things

by Nik Fletcher Oct 10th 2008

For better or for worse, the Apple AppStore has a bucketload of To-Do apps. If you're looking for a heavy-hitting [and location-aware] application designed specifically for the GTD mavens, you'll want OmniFocus ($19.99), and if you're looking for something a little lighter on the wallet, then Erica Sadun's free To-Do app might just be the answer.

But over the last few months, I've used and grown to love Cultured Code's application Things ($9.99). At the AppStore's debut, the number one qualm that I had with most To-Do apps was that my task lists were only ever accessible via the iDevice. However, just like OmniFocus, Things also works with the identically-named Mac sibling* and seamlessly syncs your to-dos over a local WiFi network.

The appeal of Things isn't just that it syncs, however. The application has always been easy to use, and unlike some competitors, friendly to those not versed in the David Allen Getting Things Done methodology. It's also got a delightful user interface: elegant, admittedly rather beautiful on the eye, the app is one of the few I've tried that actually kept using from day one.

In amongst a swathe of lacklustre applications on the AppStore,Things (like my other favourites Exposure and Twitterrific) is one of the few apps to look, feel and work as though Apple themselves produced it.

* The Mac-only desktop version of Things at the time of writing is still in 'preview' [beta], however the developers have announced it will launch at Macworld Expo in January for $49.

Tags: getting-things-done, GTD, iPhone, Things, to-do, to-do lists, to-do-list, to-dolist, To-doLists

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Troy Malone said 12:57PM on 10-10-2008

This looks like a great application. I love that I can now have a little taste of the Mac with my iphone.

Thanks.

Jash Sayani said 1:46PM on 10-10-2008

Very good app. But considered the price, its not at all worth!!!

For Scheduled Todos, you can use RememberTheMilk. Its free !! (iPhone webapp on WebApp gallery).

Yazan said 9:45PM on 10-10-2008

I started using evernote as my to-do list. Just put in an entry with a to-do tag and im good! It syncs really well too!

John B. Kendrick said 8:43AM on 10-11-2008

Syncing is great but for those that need their system on multiple computers and their iPhone, I found an application that allows me to view my entire GTD at work on my Win machine, at home on my Macs and even on my cell phone. And another app lets me call in tasks to my GTD without any writing or typing, great for those thoughts that hit me while driving. I've written about my experiences with GTD in a blog post at http://johnkendrick.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/more-getting-things-done/ John

travis wu said 5:15AM on 10-12-2008

reQall people. reQall is pretty good and their iphone app is free. does voice input as well. http://www.reqall.com/

Susan said 1:24PM on 1-06-2009

To Do and Things are great! Amazon Mobile and BeeJive are also great.

I've made some other good finds on

http://www.igoapps.com/search/do_search/popular_all/13/2/1/none

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