Software that's enjoyable ... software that's a drudgery

Posted by steveylang
Mar 5, 2015 at 09:36 PM

You’re welcome!

As Hugh said, it has a very nice UI. Basically you get the benefit of the structure of a database or task app, along with the ‘free form’ flexibility of an outliner or text editor- at least that’s how I’d describe what it’s like to use it. Editing and organizing tasks is effortless with the WASD key cluster, moving a task in or out of the Today list is as simple as the T key. Plus you basically get multilevel ability (‘outlines of outlines’ as discussed in the old ATPM series) with the folder/nested folders/list organization.

So now I use it for jotting notes/ideas and general outlining, I find having these types of info and tasks together is useful. I’m not a heavy task management guy though, there are other more fully-featured apps for that.

It was very good that Karelia bought Potion Factory, they’ve been pretty active so far. They also made the custom sync service free, which works fast and seems reliable (in retrospect I probably would have paid for it, had I know how good it was.)

MadaboutDana wrote:
Thanks for the tip about The Hit List, Steve. I’ve been playing with it,
>and although it’s not the most beautiful of the task management apps,
>it’s impressively practical.
> >And the keyboard shortcuts are a real boon. I may have to CRIMP it!
> >As you say, an iPad version would be welcome (although they’ve confirmed
>they’re working on one).