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What type of contexts and tags are you guys using to help organize things?

Can anyone tell me if you can manually sort in Today?  I am sitting looking at about 40 things to do (yes I need to get on with it!) listed in Today, but the order they show in isn't really very helpful?  I feel like I'm missing something, I thought manual sorting via drag n drop was possible in THL, and what I want to do is manually sort them into the order I want to do them in.  But I can't!  Help??!!

Thanks

Nicola

You can manually sort tasks in the Today window by due date, but you can't put something that's due today before something that's past due, for example. If you have 10 tasks due today and 10 tomorrow, you can sort those groups separately but you can't mix tasks due today and tomorrow.

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if they need to be in a certain order this can only happen if you have little projects (that consist of at least two tasks). You can sort them within the projects.
I hope I am congruent with the GTD!-terms here. Single tasks are always independent from each other, thus you need not to sort them on your list.

e.g. you have

- bring the bin to the garbage outside.
- through used tissue in the bin
- open the door

as single tasks and want to sort them, it won´t work.
the tasks are connected to each other. thus you should create a project.

-clean up
   - through used tissue in the bin
   - open the door
   - bring the bin to the garbage outside.

where you can sort the tasks within it.

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Here are some examples of how I have my lists and contexts setup right now.  I am using my contexts as "where" and tags as "what" (such as what programs to use or whatever)

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I love this app

Personally, I've switched back to Things. The lack of an iPhone client kept getting in the way of my productivity: a lot of "to-do" ideas and discussions come up when I'm not at my computer.

Now that I have, I'm appreciating the calm simplicity of Things. It's kinda silly, but the feature I miss most about The Hit List is the little tone that acknowledges when a ticky-box has been checked.

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I hope they'll release an iPhone app soon, I'd be using it all the time.

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I'm sticking with Things, myself.
THL just doesn't sit right with me.  Feels like one of those apps where it was easy to take a template and try and improve on it with hits and misses in design.

I wish them all the best, though, I just like Things.
It was a nice bundle app for sure.

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I am REALLY liking The Hit List!!!
Finally, someone seems to have really done it right.

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I was thinking of how they could make this task manager better after they get the iPhone app done and I though that reports would be a nice feature.  How fast you get tasks done from when you add them, avg. time a task in left undone.  Stuff like that so you can see how productive you are on certain days or weeks.  Just some ideas, anyways I want my iPhone app SOOOON.

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i don't know if it was posted earlier, but here are some good guide through hitlist or gtd generally

http://impodcast.tv/category/articles/w … ings-done/

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This app will get a ton of use from me once the iphone app is out. Syncing with Google Tasks would also be supremely awesome.

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I'm using The Hit List every day for my to do list, but I have a problem:
the application doesn't show me the dock count after the first mac boot of the day.
The hit list auto-starts at login, if the start or the re-start isn't the first of the day no problem and on the dock icon I can see the count of the "today" to do's, but if the start is the first of a new day the count doesn't appear on the icon. Of course if I close and re-open the program the count then appairs!

The problem exists with repetitive to do's too...

Removing the auto-start at login and starting The Hit List delayed with launchd the problem persists.

Can you help me?
Thanks
Andrea

Hopefully after we get the new iPhone 3.0 software out this wednesday we will see the HitList iphone app within a few weeks.  That is what I am hoping and betting on.  Also I would like to see the moneywell app come out soon after this 3.0 release.  I hope we have a large influx of apps that we have all been waiting on come out around this 3.0 launch time.

and the waiting begins......

Great program but without iPhone app it is limited in how much I can use it.

The developer is terrible at communicating -- not even a mention of whether he's even started into the iphone app!  Seems like people are leaving THL by the droves.  What a shame, too, since it is probably the best GTD app with keyboard shortcuts out there.

My hitlist is not "expired" and won't open any longer.  Looks like it was a temporary loaner program?  Arrrgggghhh.

Do as it says and download an updated version. It should work fine now.

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I actually know very little about Allenesque GTD systems, but I do get a lot of satisfaction hearing the tick-box chime, and HitList is now my fave task manager.

Same here. I used to use TaskPaper and todoist.com.

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I tried to open The Hit List today but a dialogue box popped up and said the Beta version had expired.  Does this mean that we did not get a permanent version of this app.  ??

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It just means you have to download the updated version. It will still work.

I don't know why they wouldn't just write Sparkle into that, but m'eh.

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You can make it check for updates on startup in the preferences. I think it even is sparkle but why know why people don´t to that first I can not explain

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You can do it if your beta isn't "expired". Which is silly. If it's expired, Sparkle is the only thing it should allow.

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Ahh, I see. Thanks for the clarification.

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So do I have to go to the potionfactory site and download a new version of Hit List ?  And will it still work with the license from macheist?  Sorry, I don't understand

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The Hit List is still on beta, so you just have to download the last version from the Potion Factory website and you'll be up and running (if I remember correctly, this is what I did).

No password is needed until the official 1.0 version is released. The license you got from MacHeist will be valid for all the 1.XX updates.

Thank you, did just that and all good !

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I have only just got time to play around with The Hit List. And I must say i'm impressed so far. I am currently using Things for mac/iPhone for my todos. But if the iPhone app turnes out to be as powerfull as the mac vision I will no doubt switch.

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I just switched macs; how do i get my reg code forhit list?

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I think he's saying he switched macs, not that he switched TO mac.

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Ok, here I go.  I dont want to sound like I am an impatient person but I am done waiting on this app.  I am going back to school within 2 weeks and need to have a functional GTD system for my computer and iPhone.  The lack of iPhone support for THL is its downfall for me.  Plus the lack of feedback from the dev. about anything that is going on with the app. 

So now for my question.  What are my alternatives?  Things with the iPhone app.  OmniFoucs and the Iphone app.  Anything else that you all use?  Thanks.

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Toodledo is even better than RTM.  You have a huge amount of integration with it.

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I use the web based ToodleDo and then on my iphone use ToDo.  It's not all perfect but works good enough for me.  ToDo also works with RememberTheMilk.  ToodleDo is free while RememberTheMilk requires a yearly fee. ToDo also offers a sync component to sync with ical but I've not explored that yet.

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What if i synced THL with ical and then synced that with ToDo, would that work?

Ok, I bought Todo by Appigo.  I have a few different calenders in iCal that Todo sorts as lists.  Then I have my lists in THL going to those calenders and all the tasks get synced to them from the built in THL ical sync.  Then I am using the Appigo Sync that sync the ical todo list with my iPhone Todo app.  It works remarkably well for just setting it up.  The only thing that it does not sync with is the subtasks from THL.  You can set up projects in both but they will just show up as individual tasks in the other programs.

The Potion Factory is looking for The Hit List iPhone Beta testers! This means it's getting closer to the much wanted iPhone app! They are looking for 10 testers. Here's the link:
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Deadline is Sept. 21st - so I guess we wont get the iPhone App before November ... this sucks!

Having been pretty vocal about The Potion Factory hurrying up with the iPhone app I'd love to be 1 of the 10, but seeing as the hunt for beta testers is on blogs & news sites all over the net the cahnces are slim to say the least.

I'm not a diverse user who's found some innovative way to use it, but my ToDo scheduling is important to me and I desperately need a workable solution 2.

One thing I'm very concerned about with this announcement...

10 Beta Testers?  10?....  10?.... I'm just saying..... <end of MacOSKen impression>

For something as complex as this, with the variety of ways it can be used you'd think they'd want a substantial number of testers to cover all of these imaginative usage methods?  Unless of course it's still early days in the development of the app.

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BigMark, I have my doubts that it's only 10 that are testing it but that is the number of people they are requesting from outside their own circle.  We don't know who or how many are within that circle.

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Bummer.  I've been waiting on THL.  I've been using Circus Ponies Notebook and exporting to CarbonFin to manually sync my to-do lists between my Mac and iPod Touch. Not a smooth solution.

Time, how short.