I think because there are so many alternatives to OmniFocus – especially ones like NotePlan that are easily customizable – that OmniFocus ranks lower. Also, frankly, OF is old school GTD and the world is moving on. That said, I use OF almost solely because it hooks into the macOS extension infrastructure better than other apps, for my purposes.
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I normally use OF, but my project load has simplified right now and so I’m using Adam Savage’s checkbox method with a legal pad and a multicolor pen (this one) to indicate project (e.g. blue is teaching, red is research, green is personal, black is everything else).
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Reminders, along with Due for recurring ‘bug me until I do it’ tasks.
NotePlan. organized, flexible, powerful
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Omnfocus for a good few years but now on Things and very happy. I just did not like the direction of OF4 (Beta)
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Reminders per this post.
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The Due app, the Tot app, and a Markdown text file called “tomorrow.txt.”
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I like the spread here. We’re blessed to have so many strong software products/services in this area. (OF for me.)
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It’s frankly probably overkill for most. Was for me, anyway.
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What makes you say it’s a privacy nightmare?
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It could be that people with task managers that work well are off doing work, and not here answering polls 
Sort of like Albert Wald’s insight into survivorship bias.
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I’ve been using OmniFocus since forever.
Occasionally when I have a project that has a large number of parallel tasks or subprojects, I use TaskPaper to manage the minutiae, with a higher-level entry for it in OmniFocus to make sure it stays on my radar and shows up in reviews.
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Sounds like you’re saying we might be better off looking at a comprehensive list of task managers and switching to the ones that are not being claimed by responders to this post?
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Trello as stated previously:
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My thoughts almost exactly.
Ok. I have to ask. What is a noob?
I am a bit surprised that todoist isn’t as popular as I thought it would be.
What is clear is the preference towards well designed native apple apps such as Things, Omnifocus and Reminders. All of these are on Apple platforms exclusively.
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I’ve used most of those (not OmniFocus though).
I’m increasingly impressed by NotePlan, which best combines the benefits of digital with those of paper and pen, at least for me. I am confident I’ll try others eventually, but so far so good. I just wish it was easier to use it with an existing folder of plain-text notes (instead of its default in a deeply buried directory, for CloudKit purposes).
I used Todoist for a long time, and especially liked the sustain at the time for adding tasks with priorities, tags/folders and due dates, etc., all from the keyboard. At some point some of that changed to be a little less keyboard-centric, iirc, and it became less useful.
I really wanted GoodTask to work. Using the built-in apps is a close second to plain text for me – and I love the mail/calendar/markdown approach of layering app-based features over a central dataset available to multiple apps – but it just never clicked. Reminders is somehow too substantial as a checklist app, but too clunky (all that clicking and tapping!) for much more than that, and somehow I get that carried over to GoodTask. But maybe it has improved.
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Agreed. What keeps me on Todoist is the natural language input. It’s the same reason I use Fantastical. I can simply type “Work on budget today at 3pm #Work” and the task is added into Todoist - done.
I used MS ToDo for a few months and the amount of moving your mouse around and clicking was exhausting. I’ve had the same experience with Things on Mac – too many clicks, too much mouse, but that’s me.
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