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:

http://taskfabric.com

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. :)

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).

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.

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

Daly,
I entirely agree about the Taskfabric website.
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It's on their front page at http://taskfabric.com/index.php . Just scroll down. I found it no problem at all ...

Graham

Daly de Gagne wrote:

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

Thanks, Graham. On my tablet I see a list, describing each offering, one after the other. What I was looking for was a chart with each offering having a column, so it is easy to see, side by side and in one place, what their respective features are. Such an approach is not uncommon, and is most helpful.

Daly

Graham Rhind wrote:

It's on their front page at http://taskfabric.com/index.php . Just
scroll down. I found it no problem at all ...

Graham

Daly de Gagne wrote:
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

I would suggest, Daly, that this is a screen size display issue. On a "normal" screen you see the columns next to each other so that the comparison of versions is easy, as you would require. The page has been designed and coded, though, so that on smaller screens the columns appear under each other rather than next to each other so that mobile users only have to scroll up and down rather than left and right. Personally it's not a design decision I would have made (though it's common practice these days), but I still think that ranting that a feature is omitted, when it is there but just appears differently on a small screen, isn't really fair ...

Graham

Daly de Gagne wrote:

Thanks, Graham. On my tablet I see a list, describing each offering, one
after the other. What I was looking for was a chart with each offering
having a column, so it is easy to see, side by side and in one place,
what their respective features are. Such an approach is not uncommon,
and is most helpful.

Daly

Graham Rhind wrote:
It's on their front page at http://taskfabric.com/index.php . Just
>scroll down. I found it no problem at all ...
>
>Graham
>
>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>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

Graham, the point is that when I was ranting I didn't realize the nature of the problem was related to screen size, or ven that the list wS there until you helpfully pointed it out to me. If I had, your observation about my lack of fairness might have been justified.

I say might have been justified because some sites handle small screen size better than others. I have seen mobile sites which manage a column arrangement, albeit one may have to use a landscape orientation of the phone, and or scroll. As well, some sites allow the option of showing the desktop version on the phone. How ironic when sometimes a desktop version of a site works better on a phone than the mobike version of the site.

Part of my rant reflects my frustration with a design trend which seemed to coincide with Windows 8 and its metro look, namely taking more space on desktop, and even mobile, sites to say less.

Daly

Graham Rhind wrote:

I would suggest, Daly, that this is a screen size display issue. On a
"normal" screen you see the columns next to each other so that the
comparison of versions is easy, as you would require. The page has been
designed and coded, though, so that on smaller screens the columns
appear under each other rather than next to each other so that mobile
users only have to scroll up and down rather than left and right.
Personally it's not a design decision I would have made (though it's
common practice these days), but I still think that ranting that a
feature is omitted, when it is there but just appears differently on a
small screen, isn't really fair ...

Graham

Daly de Gagne wrote:
Thanks, Graham. On my tablet I see a list, describing each offering, one
>after the other. What I was looking for was a chart with each offering
>having a column, so it is easy to see, side by side and in one place,
>what their respective features are. Such an approach is not uncommon,
>and is most helpful.
>
>Daly
>
>Graham Rhind wrote:
>It's on their front page at http://taskfabric.com/index.php . Just
>>scroll down. I found it no problem at all ...
>>
>>Graham
>>
>>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>>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