MACBLISS  So far this app has been working wonderfully.

Hasn't crashed once I might add.

Favorite features thus far ...

• Outliner

• iCal Sync

• Transfer (aka cloning)

• Custom Columns

• Sources -- the ability to link files and urls to individual tasks -- and view web pages and other file types within Process.

After using it for a few weeks, here's some features I thought might be welcomed additions (in no particular order):

Flag option, like in Mail, Mori, Yojimbo, etc.

Drag and drop capability of "transfer" command (an awesome feature by the way).

Trash Can for deleted items.

Manual option for Archive command, in addition to automatic.

Nested Project capability, like tasks.

Option to not include "transfer/cloned" items in smart projects. At present duplicates show up, which limits their usefulness.

Custom project icons, like Journler has for folders, where you can add an image to represent its contents/purpose.

Quick entry panel -- like Things, OmniFocus, etc. -- and/or a Service that can be used with Quicksilver, for easily adding items to a project, i.e., an inbox.

Keep up the good work.  
(Version 3.0)

AROBULACK  Jumsoft is clearly a very ambitious company, considering their wide variety of product offerings. However, consider carefully before you lay out your hard-earned cash for any of them.

The company's support is dismal, and they permit well-known and documented bugs to exist in their products for long periods of time (i.e. Process went for almost a year without a single upgrade, despite their public acknowledgement that several of its key advertised features were non-functional).

This is a company that needs to take a step back and decide if they're all about quality or quantity. Currently, for them, it's quantity, and hence the quality of their products and their support system is very low.  
(Version 2.0.3)

LUPOWILK  Very useful simple application for anyone that have small business needs.

What i Like:

- simple, user friendly interface

- You can organize Your work in goal/ steps approach

- simple sync with ical of the steps in Process (two options available as to do's or calendar items)

- password encryption of every project

- good price (specially when You buy with the bundle with Money and Relationship).

- stable program

This program is very flexible, and easy to lear to use.

It matches my needs for a simple program to help me organize my complexed works or planning the achievement of my goals in the future.  
(Version 3.0.8)

DTRUETT1  Gotta agree with AROBULACK on Jumsoft and their product commitment or lack thereof. I Emailed them a week and a half ago with a question about synching via SugarSync or plans for MMe. I also sent an Email to the developer at Things. I heard from Things within hours. Still haven’t heard from Jumsoft.  
(Version 3.0.8)

TFINDLAY  Way back when I used Process 2. Process 3 is a big step up. It has been working flawlessly for me and I am becoming dependent on it for keeping track of my project related tasks. I like the simple yet flexible way it lets me organize my projects. Linking and attaching files to project tasks is essential to me and Process 3 lets me do this with the ease of drag and drop. iCal integration is a big plus and is well implemented with two-way communication between Process 3 and iCal.  
(Version 3.0.6)

MACAHOLIC!  While I freely admit that I like several aspects of Process, such as iCal integration (wish for Addressbook integration as well, please), it's Cocoa UI aesthetic, it's document linking IN THEORY), there are some precarious bugs with this app.

File saving should indeed be automatic. And I have on occasions experienced it NOT saving when quitting, myself. This induces a high degree of mistrust in the application... and such applications REALLY need rock-solid dependability!

File linking is inconsistent -- not from a bug perspective, but rather by design. The Process data files are in fact packages, and SOME file types indeed get "eaten" by Process, as they are moved into your data file's package. This is damned dangerous if you ask me. And, it's a little too aggressive o Process' part, thinking it can be-all and do-all as well as other dedicated applications. Process should simply utilize Finder aliases. This would make tracking of files that are moved, as well as being able to reference one file more than once within Process, easier. My Process data file is littered with broken links.

Unless I am not using it properly, the iCal integration is buggy. When I try to set a future iCal event as an alarm, Process puts it in on the DATE CREATED.

Also, you cannot fully search note contents; only "Item" (or event heading) text. This is a major problem, as -- at least as far as I can determine -- because a lot of data is "hidden" from Process' search function. I have many Items with the default not loaded with text. But, I can't search this text. Major problem.

Also, it would be great if, while being able to preview web pages within Process, an option to "Open page in default browser" would be highly welcome.

And yet, with all these problems, I have twice tried OmniOutliner... but have come back to Process. Process feels like a Mac application, whereas Omnioutliner feels like a Windows port. I really like its iCal integration... if I can get it to work properly.

Process is in dire need of a major revision and ironing-out of bugs. It's potential is serious.

OH! AND PLEASE JUMSOFT do NOT go the way of iCal/Leopard and eliminate the shelf. I absolutely HATE the way Apple changed iCal in this regard. WAY too many clicks/keystrokes to get editing on stuff.  
(Version 2.0.3)

SW_TESTER  In a crowded market for this kind of software the one feature that makes Process good is network sharing. nice if it worked right!

Your cursor moves if another user starts editing any of your shares. if you are typing at the moment the other user is typing then your typing continues in the new location that the other user is typing so it gets all messed up.

multiple users can edit the same item at the same time which means data can get corrupted.

Process does not use record locking.

NOTE: URL source (ie attaching urls to an item) causes errors preventing sharing from working.

If you don't set preferences Delete unshared project, and if you turn off your computer before the other user they will all of a sudden have your shared projects permanently in there Process. Plus next time you turn on your computer they will show your shared projects doubled.

It's a nice product if they would just fix these problems that have persisted for over a year.  
(Version 3.0.9)

MACBLISS  You guys rock. Nice job. Boy it was a long time coming -- but it sure seems worth the wait. I can't wait to get started using Process 3. It even has seem-less 2-way ical syncing! Yahoo!

At 39 it's a steal. And with upgrades at only $19 you have got me sold without a doubt! This is one of the fastest upgrades I've every decided upon.

I'm more than excited I can't tell you. If you are overly frustrated with the state of outing and task managers -- and don't want to compromise functionality for eye candy or vice versa -- give the new Process 3 a try. I am overjoyed that these guys have revitalized this app. The syncing problems of version 2 should now be a thing of the past. Boy, I'm sure glad I upgraded to Leopard. Thanks a million guys. You have made my day.  
(Version 3.0)

AROBULACK  OMG!! It's ALIVE!!!!!  
(Version 2.0.3)

CASCADEHUSH  I would have bought this program, dispite it's limitations, if it was half the price.

I love the implementation of the outline view of the project, and the ease in which you can add items, and make them into a heirachy. It is by far the most intuitive way of laying things out and navigating through a project. It combines the power of an outliner with the clarity of a 'Yojimbo' or 'Journler' wrt the notes pane.

But here are the deal-breakers that are simply not tolerable in a $40 program:

1) When you drag and drop a file onto an entry, it imbeds a copy the file in the the process data file. You can create a link to a file, but you have to do this through the file open dialog. I hate the file open dialog and avoid it like the plague. Why should I have to re-navigate to a file when I already have it selected in the Finder. This could be fixed by a simple preference option to default to linked rather than embeded files.

2) It's way to easy to check and uncheck an item that contains sub-items. If you are partway through a project and have some sub-items ticked, and then by accident you tick/untick the main item, you lose track of what items are incomplete/complete. There should be an option to 'protect' item with sub-items, such that the main item only becomes checked when all the sub-items become checked.

3) You would think that double-clicking on a linked/embeded file would open it in the appropriate program (like preview, word, etc) but it doesn't. Failing that you would think that a right-click menu would allow you to do it. Neither of these options work. Instead, you have to select the item, then use the 'gear' button, select 'Open with' and then from the sub-menu, select the appropriate program. This is just way too convoluted.

4) You can't drag and drop URLs from Firefox. I know that Firefox doesn't use standard URL drag objects like Safari does, but surely it's such a popular program that it deserves a little work on the part of the the programmers to make it work. You can drag and drop a URL from Firefox to Safari, so it is technically possible to implement such functionality.

5) When collapsing an item, it would be nice if the due-date would reflect the most recent due-date of any of the sub-items. This way you don't have to open up the item to see when the next step is due. Then you'd be able to collapse all items in a project, sort and sort them by due day, without having to have all items un-collapsed. As it is, the only way to be sure that you can see when stuff is due is to have all items uncollapsed.

6) Autosave. All programs in this catagory autosave. It's the type of program that you just expect to store your data for you, because you have it open all the time. You don't want to have to be thinking about saving and managing saved files. I lost a bunch of data when I exited the program. Even though it asked me if I wanted to save, it actually didn't save the most recent data in the file. I found that I had to manually save regularly to be sure all my data was there.

No doubt some of these items are peculiar to the way I want to work. But most of them should be easy to implement. Some of them are pretty basic common-sence issues or even expected behaviour (Autosave, default to linked file on drag, double click opens a linked/embedded item).

As it stands i'm still using Journler.  
(Version 2.0.2)