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Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 5, 2015 at 11:33 AM

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).

Posted by Hugh
Mar 5, 2015 at 12:14 PM

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).

I like The Hit List too. Somehow its UI is conducive to doodling thoughts, ideas and outlines, whether task-directed or not. (Perhaps its attractions for me are subconsciously reinforced by the fact that I like using real yellow legal pads for my pencil-and-paper efforts as well.)

There was a time when its developer appeared to abandon it for periods of time, and that was a distinct disadvantage, particularly when its rivals were busily updating their Mac offerings and rolling out iOS versions as well. But now that its development is the responsibility of a larger organisation, the threat of that weakness seems to have shrunk.

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 5, 2015 at 03:37 PM

Hit List users: Is there a method for exporting a list with the notes? I’ve looked and can’t find it, but I am notorious for not seeing what is right under my nose.

Thanks.

Steve Z.

Posted by Paul Korm
Mar 5, 2015 at 04:32 PM

Not built-in, AFAIK. The Hit List has a pretty good AppleScript dictionary and a script to export the items with notes doesn’t look difficult. There are few similar scripts that Google knows about that could be modified for this purpose. Exporting doesn’t seem to be a major concern on Karelia’s forum.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Hit List users: Is there a method for exporting a list with the notes?

BTW, The Hit List supports links in the form “thehitlist:///6A965591076182E0”, which can be pasted in to OmniFocus or elsewhere and hook your work in The Hit List to the other app.

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.)

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