Comments on: CulturedCode is going to make a ton of money next week http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/12/culturedcode-is-going-to-make-a-ton-of-money-next-week/ Wed, 23 May 2012 18:04:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: pnts http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/12/culturedcode-is-going-to-make-a-ton-of-money-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1160 pnts Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:04:42 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/?p=823#comment-1160 <p>It's an interesting approach to offer the beta for free, and charge for the official release candidate. In the case of Things, I'm firmly hooked, and when they announced the imminent launch (and a 20% discount to those on the mailing list), I bought it right away. Versions did the same thing with their svn app, but in that case I just wasn't hooked enough to plunk down the cash.</p> <p>I love Things, and I hope Cultured Code makes a killing and continues to make killer products.</p> It’s an interesting approach to offer the beta for free, and charge for the official release candidate. In the case of Things, I’m firmly hooked, and when they announced the imminent launch (and a 20% discount to those on the mailing list), I bought it right away. Versions did the same thing with their svn app, but in that case I just wasn’t hooked enough to plunk down the cash.

I love Things, and I hope Cultured Code makes a killing and continues to make killer products.

]]> By: pnts http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/12/culturedcode-is-going-to-make-a-ton-of-money-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-2334 pnts Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:04:00 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/?p=823#comment-2334 <p>It's an interesting approach to offer the beta for free, and charge for the official release candidate. In the case of Things, I'm firmly hooked, and when they announced the imminent launch (and a 20% discount to those on the mailing list), I bought it right away. Versions did the same thing with their svn app, but in that case I just wasn't hooked enough to plunk down the cash.</p> <p>I love Things, and I hope Cultured Code makes a killing and continues to make killer products.</p> It’s an interesting approach to offer the beta for free, and charge for the official release candidate. In the case of Things, I’m firmly hooked, and when they announced the imminent launch (and a 20% discount to those on the mailing list), I bought it right away. Versions did the same thing with their svn app, but in that case I just wasn’t hooked enough to plunk down the cash.

I love Things, and I hope Cultured Code makes a killing and continues to make killer products.

]]> By: Mark Jaquith http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/12/culturedcode-is-going-to-make-a-ton-of-money-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1159 Mark Jaquith Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:06:14 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/?p=823#comment-1159 <p>I really like the app, but it's unusable for GTD.</p> <p>Things assumes that all projects are non-linear -- that the items in the project can be completed in any order. For instance, say I have Step 1 (a phone item), Step 2 (a computer item), and Step 3 (an errand). If I set it to display one project step, and then view my "computer" tag, I'll see Step 2, which isn't doable until Step 1 is done.</p> <p>The whole point of GTD is to "do" according to your available contexts. Things has no way of showing you all of your "next actions" for a specific context. They need to introduce the concept of linear projects, and offer a view that only shows you "available" actions -- actions that are either in a non-linear project, or are the next action for a project. I'd probably switch from Omnifocus if they did that.</p> I really like the app, but it’s unusable for GTD.

Things assumes that all projects are non-linear — that the items in the project can be completed in any order. For instance, say I have Step 1 (a phone item), Step 2 (a computer item), and Step 3 (an errand). If I set it to display one project step, and then view my “computer” tag, I’ll see Step 2, which isn’t doable until Step 1 is done.

The whole point of GTD is to “do” according to your available contexts. Things has no way of showing you all of your “next actions” for a specific context. They need to introduce the concept of linear projects, and offer a view that only shows you “available” actions — actions that are either in a non-linear project, or are the next action for a project. I’d probably switch from Omnifocus if they did that.

]]> By: Mark Jaquith http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/12/culturedcode-is-going-to-make-a-ton-of-money-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-2333 Mark Jaquith Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:06:00 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/?p=823#comment-2333 <p>I really like the app, but it's unusable for GTD.</p> <p>Things assumes that all projects are non-linear -- that the items in the project can be completed in any order. For instance, say I have Step 1 (a phone item), Step 2 (a computer item), and Step 3 (an errand). If I set it to display one project step, and then view my "computer" tag, I'll see Step 2, which isn't doable until Step 1 is done.</p> <p>The whole point of GTD is to "do" according to your available contexts. Things has no way of showing you all of your "next actions" for a specific context. They need to introduce the concept of linear projects, and offer a view that only shows you "available" actions -- actions that are either in a non-linear project, or are the next action for a project. I'd probably switch from Omnifocus if they did that.</p> I really like the app, but it’s unusable for GTD.

Things assumes that all projects are non-linear — that the items in the project can be completed in any order. For instance, say I have Step 1 (a phone item), Step 2 (a computer item), and Step 3 (an errand). If I set it to display one project step, and then view my “computer” tag, I’ll see Step 2, which isn’t doable until Step 1 is done.

The whole point of GTD is to “do” according to your available contexts. Things has no way of showing you all of your “next actions” for a specific context. They need to introduce the concept of linear projects, and offer a view that only shows you “available” actions — actions that are either in a non-linear project, or are the next action for a project. I’d probably switch from Omnifocus if they did that.

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