I use Keyboard Maestro for simple perspectives in Things (on a Mac). With its conflict palette, one keyboard shortcut can display a menu of views and searches in Things. For example, you could have a view of tasks tagged both “home” and “active”. Or a view projects tagged “work”.
That is appealing, but I use Smart Lists/perspectives extensively on my phone and iPad.
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That issue never bothered me.
I tried OF a few years ago for 6 months, and I was never able to get to “simple” on it, and I never found it “incredibly easy to use.” I think the way it works, and my mind was not a good match.
It seems to me there’s a problem with an app where you have to get over the learning curve to make it simple. I’ve always wondered why they don’t have some prepared templates or whatever would work for OF that would present a fairly simple system so new people don’t have to figure out the whole thing to make it useful.
It is a more advanced task manager than a simple todo list though, so I think it’s ok that it is more complex and requires a little more thought for people who want that. You just have to figure out some concepts because it is not a simple list of things todo (unless you set it up that way), but once you grasp those, it make sense.
They sort of do. With 4, after not having used OF for a few years, it offered to import a sample project list/tutorial type thing. It walked me through all the basics and I quickly remembered all the ins and outs on how to set up some more complex repeating tasks.
I bought several guides to OF to help me understand it, but I never did “figure out some concepts” even with help. Maybe I’m just a bit dense when it comes to the OF concepts!
Nah, I don’t think most people need a OF. It does take some time to learn and some help from outside sources. I bought MacSparkies field guide years ago, that helped me a lot. I am just saying, at some point, at least for me, it just clicked.
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I’m very late to this, but Mail links work as they should in GoodTask.
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Hello, replying to this email in the desperate hope that this has been fixed or you have found a workaround! I am frequently getting “the selected message could not be found” when adding an email from my Exchange account. Were ever able to resolve this?
The bug still exists. I’m surprised that Apple has not fixed it.
Nevertheless, I’m still using Reminders (in my post I said I may be forced back to OF). I decided I’m willing to put up with this frustration because OF has its own points of friction. For my needs, I gain more from Reminders’ deep ecosystem integration than I lose dealing with a broken link. A quick search for the email subject line brings up the email I need.
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