[Hontano]

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.

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".

I don't see $50 worth of functionality, but still, wish them well with the new release.

[speg]

I too tried to love Things, but just couldn't get into it. The to-list needs to be simple enough to use without thinking, yet powerful enough to offer a specific set of features.

With the release of Mountain Lion I am getting along fine with Reminders. I use Fantastical in my menu bar to add things, it's always synced to my phone. Has priority, time & date, and geolocation.

[Hontano]

Ah hah, I forgot about Fantastical. Looks like it will do the trick for quick entry of reminders which was one of the few features I was missing after Things. (Plus there's a 50%-off sale).

Using an Fn double-tap to dictate makes it Siri-esque, only more reliable :)