Things 2 is out (Mac/iOS app)

I consider my to do list highly private information and will not consider using any syncing application that doesn't encrypt my data at rest.<p>Perhaps that makes me a unique snowflake, and perhaps a true Scotsman.<p>The convenience of ubiquitous sync is undeniable, but there's more personal data in my todo list than in my email spool. I use it for notes, ideas, trivial record keeping, etc.<p>It's private, and there are a dozen little companies who offer to sync my stuff. I don't trust any of them. I don't trust Google or Apple with that data either, but I wish someone would do it right so I could.<p>Is this not a concern for others?

I loved the original release of Things on the desktop, but wish I had never bothered with the iOS app. It took far too many taps to do anything and syncing was clunky to the point of uselessness.<p>It was the wait for over-the-air syncing, with months of overwrought blog posts, that led me to abandon Things. I recreated my use in the Reminders app and have been much happier since. With this 2.0 I see they have finally, years later, released "cloud syncing".<p>I don't see $50 worth of functionality, but still, wish them well with the new release.

If you're a hacker in need of a Mac/iOS todo list, I couldn't recommend TaskPaper (<a href="http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper/</a>) enough. It's a hybrid outliner and todo list, but scales from simple lists to multi-project, tagged lists with loads of notes and documentation.<p>Best of all, the file format is plain text, so you can keep it in source control, edit it in Vim (there's even a vim plugin - <a href="https://github.com/davidoc/taskpaper.vim" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/davidoc/taskpaper.vim</a>), or whatever you want.

Really great, it took them like ages to get the cloud sync done but I believe they have done a great job with it. I've been using the Things beta for some time now and the Daily review feature is a winner. It's a best practice to review your todo's each morning and they just made it super easy and hard to forget.<p>On the other hand, I feel that there is really too little to justify tagging it v2. What's really new and noteworthy? Cloud sync, perhaps but that's in no way a revolutionary feature. Daily review? Really really nice but it's more of an addon/improvement rather than a full feature. And then we have it ... next to those there isn't anything really new and groundbreaking.<p>I sure hope they can get their team working on some other great new features now that cloud sync is finished. Time to move on and innnovate!

When did they announce that cloud sync was coming soon? 3 years ago? I'm not sure if I trust them to continue updating Things on a reasonable schedule. I have a lot more trust in Sam Soffes adding lots and lots of features to cheddarapp.com

Looks great! Any plans for an Android version?

The cloud sync is just too little, too late for them. iCloud and the Reminders app on Mountain Lion covers 99% of the iOS/Mac cloud-sync'd task management needs now. They definitely took far too long to release v2.

$50 for a todo app? Really?

WARNING: Careful with upgrading. My app does not start at all anymore, crash report is crashing even if I try to send or do not try to send it.<p>Things initially crashed when converting my DB, I am not sure yet if that is recoverable. Fortunately I had a iOS backup - hope that helps.<p>Anyway - I suggest backing up before upgrade, and wait for a 2.0.1! :-)

I was really looking forward to the next release, and I'm really happy for them. But it's taken years for them to do cloud sync... and the feature I was waiting for was teams. I'm personally disappointed in how incredibly long it takes them to roll out any feature.<p>I like Things, it's great... but until it's collaborative, it doesn't work (for me).

If I could put my finger on why I love the Mac version of Things, it's that I use just shy of every single feature in there. To me, that shows the right balance between simplicity and capability. I gather OmniFocus is far more extensive.<p>2.0's new "Daily Review" feature encompassing the previous Move-to-today vs. Highlight distinction looks spot-on.

I really like that scrolling date picker! Anyone know if a library is available?

Is there anything like Things for Windows? The one place I most sorely need a syncing GTD-style tracker is work, where I'm on Windows.

I love love love love Wunderkit and Wunderlist. Mostly web-based but slick Mac and iOS apps are on the way.