A decent Task Management system has become my Holy Grail of programs. Ages ago when I first started in an advertising agency, all of us in the art department had legal size pieces of foam core with a laser printed grids glued on to them. We would then write every job that we had on little Post-its and rearrange them into little columns. Rush jobs would get moved to one side of the board, normal jobs to the middle and proof out jobs to the other side. Our production manager would come by each morning & we could see at an instant where everything was.

Hey! I did mention we had laser printed stuff glued on to the foam core - so it's not like we were totally living in the dark ages! For years I have been searching for a better way. This seemed like such an archaic system, amongst our high tech gadgets. I mean, heck, we even had a CD Burner. Ahhh, it's been a long twisted path, this quest o' mine. It all started with a Palm Pilot (You remember those - don't you?). I figured technology could save us from the dreaded Post-it. But no, it just didn't have the same ease of use as picking up a post-it and moving it from one side of the board to the other, each time the status of a job changed. From there I just moved onto heavier things. Constantly hanging out at VersionTracker scoping out the latest stuff. I tried everything there; Omni, Todo X, Organized. Nothing ever quite did the trick. I even rushed out to buy the latest Version of OS X for the built in todo lists in iCal & Mail. Steve Jobs couldn't let me down...Still nothing. From there I progressed onto hosted apps, Remember the Milk, Tada list, BaseCamp & ActiveCollab. Those last two are pretty good at collaborative things, but not so much for all the active jobs that fly across a designers desk in a day. I even ventured into Some PHP Scripts & Filemaker Database programming. But 2 Days ago was my Lucky Day!

Things!

I have only been using this for 2 days now, but I just had to stop and rave about it. This has been the only app that I have found in my years of searching that is as easy to use as post-its, and as flexible. The Tagging system, the due dates, the drag ad drop. It's just a thing of beauty. See for yourself on Cultured Code's Screencast Oh, yeah... It's a Mac Thing. Sorry Windows folks.