Mac Power Users episode 13, Task Management Smackdown. Hello, this is David Sparks and with me today is Katie Floyd. How you doing

Katie? Hey David, I'm ready to go to war. Excellent. So today we're going to be

talking about our favorite task management applications and we both are users of two different popular

applications. I'm a big Omni focus user and you're a big things user.

So we were thinking this is the time to explain why we like our favorite apps and why we're not using the other one.

You know, I don't want this to sound overly negative because they're both great apps they both have excellent

designs excellent implementations and they're both good for very different people

so don't think of this so much as one of us beating up on the other app, but just kind of offering different points of view as to why these apps work better for us.

Yeah, but I do like one better than the other.

That's kind of the way it is, guess. Yeah and I do too so and

we happen to have differing views on this so. Yeah but you know before we get into the

the heavy apps because that's what Omni focus and things are there the apps for people who really have a lot of task management needs

We should probably talk about what is out there

Right because by no means I mean these are probably two the biggest named applications out there for this specific purpose,

but there are a lot of other systems and a lot of people have been doing, you know, a lot of people have

been using stickies as their task management and you know who's to say that that's wrong if if that works

for you. Well you know I talked about it when we did our email episode but when I was

in law school my task management system that worked brilliantly was every morning I had a cup of tea and a napkin

and I wrote down the two or three things I needed to get done that day and stuck in my pocket and

it worked perfect you know.

I don't think you mentioned that I would have remembered that yeah but I mean you know so it just depends on what's going on in your life

But if you need a simple task management system there are some good ones built right in. I-Cal's got a passable task

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