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Posted by jay-ho
Jan 5, 2016 at 02:00 PM
Wanted to point out this software, which I’ve had an eye on for a couple years and recently found all the things I didn’t like about it have disappeared:
I think of it like a multi-platform OmniFocus - you can have nested project (and contexts), start dates, notes, etc. And a lot of “power” stuff if that’s your thing - tags, map-like views of your task tree, project templates, encryption, mail-to-inbox, more. Also, team features if you had a group all running Taskfabric (I haven’t used these).
The issues I had with it (until now) were dragging/dropping emails and URLs into the app, and Hi-DPI support. My experiments today show both those things working great on my Mac. I’m about to commit. :)
They recently released a free Android version and the iOS version has been free for a long time. Syncing is free too. The only versions you pay for are the desktop (Mac and Windows) ones.
Finally, it’s written in C++ using the QT GUI framework, in case you’re allergic to Java like I am. :)
Posted by Hugh
Jan 5, 2016 at 04:44 PM
I tried it a couple of years ago, in a temporary period of separating from Omnifocus, pre-Omnifocus 2. At that time, Taskfabric/Organise:Pro on the Mac seemed to suffer from too many bugs/glitches/features that didn’t work properly, for me to be able to trust it. Its ambition seemed to exceed its capability. If those problems are now largely solved, it will have become a task manager/project manager worth evaluating for either the Mac or Windows (although I think I’ll be sticking with Omnifocus 2).
Posted by jay-ho
Jan 5, 2016 at 05:23 PM
Agreed, a couple years ago it had a general feeling inconsistency. I especially remember dragging/dropping to organize projects being a total crap-shoot. It is much better now, though not perfect. And it still has a… distinctive… feel.
One correction to my initial post - it doesn’t support arbitrary tags, though it does support assigning multiple contexts.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jan 6, 2016 at 03:43 AM
I didn’t find a chart on the website outlining the features of the different products on offer. Hard to pick out exactly what makes one product different, and a different price, than the other two. Seems like a silly omission for a company which has three versions of the same product, Make it easy for a buyer, and let us see where each product differs from another without making people try to figure it out for themselves. Perhaps this is yet on more example of where site design trumps site content. (Forgive my tone, no doubt influenced in part by earlier today trying to navigate an airline’s sorry website; ironically the airline was Canada’s own WestJet which supposedly is all about its guests ie. passengers, but I guess thats only when they’re at airports or on the planes. End of rant.)
Daly
Posted by Hugh
Jan 6, 2016 at 08:52 AM
Daly,
I entirely agree about the Taskfabric website.
H