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The Hit List
The Hit List 1.1.1
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(52) 3.75

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    Potion Factory
The Hit List manages the daily chaos of your modern life. It's easy to learn - it's as easy as making lists. And it's powerful enough to let you plan, then forget, then act when the time is right.

Your life is complicated enough as it is. The tool to manage your life shouldn't be. The Hit List keeps things simple by not forcing you to learn a system. It can be as simple as just keeping a list of things to do as you would on a piece of paper. However, if you do have a task management system such as Getting Things Done by David Allen, The Hit List is flexible enough to support
What's New
Version 1.1.1:
  • Fixed repeating task bugs
  • When in fullscreen mode, don't move the window when dragging on empty areas in the task list If the Keychain is not accessible, don't log out from sync account
  • Fixed Quit button not working on the "Can't open library" error message window
  • When using AppleScript, you can access the Archive group
  • When using AppleScript, lists now have an "archived" property
  • Improved error checking when moving lists and tasks using AppleScript
Version 1.1.1:
  • Fixed repeating task bugs
  • When in fullscreen mode, don't move the window when dragging on empty areas in the task list If the Keychain is not accessible, don't log out from sync account
  • Fixed Quit button not working on the "Can't open library" error message window
  • When using AppleScript, you can access the Archive group
  • When using AppleScript, more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.



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The Hit List User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 1.x:
(52)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
(87)

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burypromote
+4

+107

Blloyd reviewed on 26 Apr 2012
The 1.1 update to The Hit List brings one of my most needed features: Context-sensitive quick entry (via integration with OS X services). It makes a huge difference in usability to me.

THL is beautiful, well-designed software, and the sync service is fantastic. It's noticeably faster than OmniFocus sync for me.

The main knocks at this point are a couple things:
* There's no iPad version yet. Potion Factory says it's on the way, but things often take longer than people would like
* Between releases, Andy can go kinda quiet. This is fairly well documented in the comments below.

With the large number of changes in 1.1 and the improvements, it's pretty clear to me that he's investing a lot of time in it, and it's worked reliably for me for the last couple releases so I don't have much bad to say about it. It really is nice and flexible to use, and it doesn't frustrate me like Omnifocus does.
[Version 1.1]


burypromote
+2

+52

FTBZ reviewed on 24 Apr 2012
Having tested many competing software, I never found a replacement as good as "The Hit List". OmniFocus have an old-style interface and the pricing is unacceptable and Things suffers from a lack of features. I love how the "context" and "tags" are simple to use with The Hit List.
[Version 1.1]


burypromote
+4

+5

Pdwal reviewed on 23 Apr 2012
The Hit List is the best solution I have found for the rapid, powerful processing of notes, ideas, and tasks. The implementation of keyboard shortcuts is particularly excellent, as is the overall elegance and speed of the application. It is clear that a great deal of thought went into the design of the Hit List. I confess I hesitated because of the price -- it is on the hefty side -- but the nature of my job leaves me with a long, complicated set of tasks, notes, and things to track, and, in my opinion, only Omnifocus rivals the Hit List in power, and pales significantly in ease of use and elegance.
[Version 1.1]


burypromote
+4

+4

Bayard reviewed on 09 Mar 2012
STAY AWAY FROM THIS APP! Forget all the discussion of features, functionality, etc. Its disabling factor is the total, inexcusable lack of tech support.
I go a message on 7 Feb. 2012 that it coudn't open my library, went to Potion Factory's website & found instructions for how to repair a corrupted library, but then found they didn't match AT ALL what they said I would in my App Support. What's more, I couldn't find a backup file on my iMac that was less than 8 mos. old. Sent PF 4 increasingly frantic messages asking for help (including the relevant files, screenshots, etc.), but have STILL (03/09) gotten NOTHING except their original auto-reply to my original message.
Had an earlier parallel experience with them over a less incapacitating problem (duplicate appearances of tasks, bloating sorted to-do lists. At least that time I got into correspondence with Andy Kim, but after I sent him the files he requested I NEVER heard back.
This SW is simply too unreliable and unsupported to depend on as a tool for daily use. A shame, because it has some useful features, especially if they worked the glitches out. But absent support (and, apparently, a robust system for backing up your data), just too undependable. DON'T TOUCH IT!
Something's wrong w. MacUpdate's rating system: I want to give it a 0 rating for value & stability, but MUD won't let me; also to lower the Features rating because they don't work properly.
[Version 1.0.6]

3 Replies

burypromote
+2

+38
Mhoutman replied on 23 Apr 2012
Anyone following all delays with the beta development of this once promising app would stay away. Andy Kim once again showed himself as an unreliable developer.

What a shame and pity.
burypromote
-1

+52
FTBZ replied on 24 Apr 2012
Why this is a "Potion Factory" problem ? The Hit List database is a DATABASE and like every database need to be backuped with cautions. I'm not sure your complaint is rightful with no backup for 8 months...
burypromote

+38
Mhoutman replied on 24 Apr 2012
Okay I have to be fair, at the same day I write my negative comments, version 1.1 is released.

Still sticking to my objections against a developer which operates completely in the dark. Buying software is except an excellent product also about confidence and above all satisfactory customer support !
burypromote
+6

+38
Mhoutman commented on 06 Mar 2012
IMHO one should stay off this software. Sure it is nice, but again its developer seems in a very deep sleep. No updates for months on both Mac OS and iOS, so why even bother. FYI his last tweet was 207 days ago !

Sync should be free or at least have give us a product which had continuous support like OmniFocus, Things or Firetask
[Version 1.0.6]


burypromote

+25

Macgruder reviewed on 12 Feb 2012
There are many good things about this app but unfortunately the only way to sync is to pay for it.

While having a paid syncing service is fine, what is not so fine is the fact that you can't use a WiFi to do the job if you wish. Given that the mechanics of sync have been developed there seems to be no good reason to not have WiFI syncing - unless the developer is hoping to make more money by forcing users to use the cloud sync. I don't want to put my data on the cloud if I can avoid it for security issues. Also depending on where you are you may not have a web connection.
[Version 1.0.6]

2 Replies

burypromote
-6

+107
Blloyd replied on 21 Feb 2012
There is a good reason there's no Wifi synching: It's more work to develop it. The fact is that Potion Factory is a small company, and it takes time to impement Wifi sync (as it does to develop other sync methods). And Wifi sync isn't as useful to _most_ people as is cloud sync. There are chargest to host the THL sync service (It's hosted on Google app engine, if you do some network sniffing you can see this), so with Apple taking 30% of the sub fee, it's $1/month so it's probably not a huge cash cow.
burypromote
+2

+303
Xplicit replied on 26 Feb 2012
@Blloyd
And why should anyone care what which feature costs? If someone needs WiFi-Sync and there is none they can rate this app whatever they like. At least Macgruder didn't rate the app 0.5 stars.
burypromote
+1

+1

Fibric reviewed on 09 Oct 2011
after years of being not satisfied with many of myself tested to-do and task planing apps but finally the hit list changed my mind.
it does not force me to stick to bloated and inconsistent gtd system. it supports me in using tro (total relaxed organization).
there is only one missing thing. syncing over the air or at least an api extension for the paid sync service.
oh and the price is ok but syncing costs extra per year but thats okay actually i do not use sync because of lacking possibilities on syncing. ical is no good interface for syncing with other apps and services.
the last sentence. the hit list fits bests to my requirements :-)
[Version 1.0.6]


burypromote
+3

+9

FlyinRyan7 reviewed on 27 Aug 2011
Solid 4 star app considering the price (50$ at the time of this writing). How anyone could rate this app 1 or 2 stars is mind-boggling to me.

There are a lot of things I love about The Hit List such as:
* keyboard shortcuts (very intuitive…awesome job)
* reasonably priced iOS app w/ sync
* intuitive layout with containers (folders, Inbox, Today and upcoming)
* tags and contexts are easy to use and effective for organization
* The Hit List doesn't force you into using a system - you can use it how you'd like
* the hints at the bottom are great!

Some things I don't like:
* developer makes me nervous… he doesn't really respond to email. Also from what I read it was 3 years of promises before this app finally made it out of beta. I understand that software development isn't a straight-forward process, but good grief.
* the price is slightly high for what it does. This is more of a 40$ piece of functionality in my mind. However, there really aren't a lot of GTD alternatives that do what I want and I've done trials on quite a few of them! Sooo… I just paid the 50$.
* no dropbox or alternative syncing.

What would make this a 5 star app (or if the price were lower… obviously you expect more from a 50$ app than a 40$ app):
* rules - for instance, if I mark something with a certain tag (ex: /important) then automatically make it a priority 1. Or if it has a certain tag, move it to this list automatically.
* the ability to drop a file into a to do (instead of it just linking)…..more of a "nice to have"
* being able to iCal sync based on priority (I guess technically you can if you create a smart folder for high priority items and then set it to sync w/ iCal)
* a preferences setting to sync every X minutes. Instead I have to manually sync. If there is a way to automatically do this, I am unaware of it.
* ability to customize a few things: folder colors, list backgrounds, text colors….etc. The blue folders and yellow notebook paper are great at first… and then get boring.

I'm happy with this app and it does about 90% of what I want it to do. If you are considering either Things, Pagico, or Omnifocus, you HAVE to check out The Hit List.
[Version 1.0.6]

1 Reply

burypromote

+9
FlyinRyan7 replied on 10 Dec 2011
Update: Still working great!....however, I moved to China and the servers that THL uses are blocked by the Chinese government (no idea why). Obviously this is not something I would expect the developer to do something about. However it's a serious limitation if you travel often, or live in places with strong firewall rules (south-west Asia, China...etc), the sync'ing functionality may not work without a VPN connection.
burypromote

-2

Sw_tester reviewed on 11 Aug 2011
What I like: keyboard commands and the smart lists.

what I dislike: sorting sucks (no way to not sort without headers, it waste too much space), notes access are a little clunky, more options to customize interface like turn off tabs (don't need them we have the side bar), cloud sync (give me a break, and paid? not only that but I would not trust the developer with him having access to my todo lists, (also apple provides free cloud now)

missing: collaborative or network share todo.
is dev going to do the separate iphone/ipad apps, probably since he only released a the iphone one. i think a universal app show the dev is considerate.

company: hard to trust a developer that took almost 3 years to get out of beta and sold to people like it was almost ready 3 years ago.
[Version 1.0.6]


burypromote
+4

+303
Xplicit commented on 10 Aug 2011
The Hit List adds something to the help viewer so that every time the help viewer is started it wants to connect to static.potionfactory.com even when it's started from an app other than The Hit List. The developer doesn't respond to eMails regarding this. As I said before, very unreliable app and developer, sorry but that's how it is for me.
[Version 1.0.5]


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+52

FTBZ rated on 07 May 2012

[Version 1.1.1]



+153

Pedro Fardilha rated on 05 May 2012

[Version 1.1.1]



+153

Pedro Fardilha rated on 23 Apr 2012

[Version 1.1]




Dlackovic rated on 23 Apr 2012

[Version 1.1]




Asotvguy rated on 23 Apr 2012

[Version 1.1]




Dlackovic rated on 05 Feb 2012

[Version 1.0.6]




Rrbaker rated on 01 Jan 2012

[Version 1.0.6]



+9

Jibbe rated on 05 Dec 2011

[Version 1.0.6]



+6

T.ray rated on 10 Oct 2011

[Version 1.0.6]




firemason rated on 24 Sep 2011

[Version 1.0.6]


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Type:Business : Applications
License:Demo
Date:04 May 2012
Platform:Intel
Price: $49.95
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Your life is complicated enough as it is. The tool to manage your life shouldn't be. The Hit List keeps things simple by not forcing you to learn a system. It can be as simple as just keeping a list of things to do as you would on a piece of paper. However, if you do have a task management system such as Getting Things Done by David Allen, The Hit List is flexible enough to support you.

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