Get things done with Things

For a couple of years I’ve got my own Getting Things Done system. I started out with a clip-board and printed ToDo lists. The clip-board worked while I was working as long as I could print the email or support ticket I was working on. And I could use the extra space on the printed papers to scribble down some notes while I was on the go.

But the clip-board system was replaced by a moleskine notebook. I hade my own twist to the moleskine, kind of like this.

I then got more stationary thing to do at work, so I could work more with a GTD on my laptop. The first choice was Remember The Milk. RTM worked like a charm. I’ve used it for over a year in my day to day work. It has great offline features due to Google Gears and I even had an RTM application in my iPhone.

Nevertheless I’m not using RTM anymore.

Let me explain. RTM is a great task management system, but it lacks the ability to group tasks into small projects. I’ve hade some difficulty to get a good overview of my current workload. And figure out what to do next.

Enter Things for Mac. Things takes a more offline approach to GTD, it’s not a webapp. But it can’t sync between your Mac and iPhone over Wi-Fi. This is to my opinion the one and only drawback! I really like to sync to a cloud service. And a web interface would be nice. But I have the feeling that cloud sync is in the works.

Things have the ability to create and group tasks in projects. It’s also very flexible in the way it works. I get the feeling that I can use it just how I want.

Download: http://culturedcode.com/things/