SESQUIPEDALIAN  Er, why release a version 1.2 AFTER he won the presidency?  
(Version 1.2)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  By the way, the Donate link in the About box points to apple.com. You might want to fix that. :)  
(Version 0.5+)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  This is a great start for a truly easy to use task list app. I've tried Anxiety, which quickly became wearisome with its floating window, and various Dashboard widgets (the best being To Do Widget). SoCal, even at version 0.5+, is the most fluid way of managing to do items I have tried yet.

Of course, as a beta level app, SoCal still has a few missing features. The most important is already on the developer's roadmap: creating new tasks. Right now, SoCal can only manage tasks that already exist. The second missing feature (and the first I noticed was absent) is the ability to choose the sorting order. Right now the list sorts by priority, whereas I usually like to sort by due date. I would love to see a menu item near the bottom of the menu (along with About SoCal, Open iCal, and Quit) that let me choose the sorting order. Third, it would be very nice to be able to see the due date of an item in the list.

A last minor criticism is that completed items are indicated using a pushpin icon. A check mark would be much more appropriate (in fact, switching the pushpin to be the main menu bar icon and the check mark to be the completed item icon would make the best sense to me).

On the other hand, SoCal already includes some features that are just brilliant. First is the addition of flagging, which provides another way of differentiating tasks from one another. I've only had it for a few minutes and it already seems natural. (The term "flagging" is a bit of a misnomer, since no flag icon is displayed next to flagged items. Instead, a flagged item is shown in bold text. Personally I find this to be better than a flag icon, since it draws attention to the item more effectively.) Second, the Collections menu item gives fast access to all sorts of smart groups within your tasks, including grouping by calendar, priority, due date, completion status, and flagged status. It's a great way to get to just the tasks you need.

Finally, I love that almost all the things one would want to do with a to do item can be done with just one click. Move your mouse over an item, and a submenu immediately pops out to let you change its priority, mark it as completed, flag it, etc. Or just click once on the item itself to edit it in iCal.

Thanks to the developer. I look forward to seeing the upcoming versions!  
(Version 0.5+)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  I've opened a Google Group for Tag Folders. Help requests, bug reports, suggestions, and such can be made there.

http://groups.google.com/group/tag-folders  
(Version 1.2.5)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  Does what it says on the tin.

A great help would be if the window did not always float on top, since it can get in the way.

Also, if I close the window there is no way to reopen it except to restart the app.

Nevertheless, this looks promising.  
(Version 0.1)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  For those who are interested, it seems that somehow the folder ~/Library/LaunchAgents was missing/corrupted, and caused the installation to get an error. In the next release I will include code to check for this possibility, but in the meantime if anyone gets this error, make sure the folder ~/Library/LaunchAgents exists, and then run the installer again.  
(Version 1.2.2)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  I have an idea what is going wrong here, but I'll need more information from you first. Can you please email me? My address is included at the end of the user guide.  
(Version 1.2.2)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  Should be fixed now  
(Version 1.2.1)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  That was meant to refer to your getting things working, Mathew.  
(Version 1.0)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  Glad to hear it. :)  
(Version 1.0)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  Do the tags appear in the Spotlight comments section of the Info window of the file?

During testing I noticed that occasionally files on the Desktop would have the tag applied to their Spotlight comments, but it would take a few minutes for the change to be reflected in the Spotlight database, and thus for the file to show up in the Tag Folder's Smart Folder. This always cleared itself up after a few minutes on the occasions it happened. If you want an immediate fix, temporarily moving the file into another folder typically does the job.  
(Version 1.0)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  I don't sell on eBay, but I do buy on eBay. And for me, seeing a product on a fake background does not increase my sense of confidence. If anything, it makes me more suspicious because the product seems less real.  
(Version 1.0.5)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  It isn't a bittorrent client. It automatically downloads the little torrent files that you would otherwise need to download manually from a webpage. You still need to use your favorite bittorrent client to download the actual videos. RTFM.  
(Version 0.3.4)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  What a helpful program! I no longer need to struggle with physical notecards or (worse) word processor documents full of quotes. TextCite brings sane quotation and citation to the digital world at last!

The integration with RefWorks, Endnote, etc., for inserting citations is straightforward and effective. However, in upcoming releases it would be very nice to see a function to import bibliographic data from such programs, if only in the form of reading a text file, in order to save the user from manually retyping data he or she already has in such databases. Adding this would bring up my ratings on Features and Ease of Use to 5 and 4, respectively.

The interface is fairly intuitive, with the necessary functions easily accessible wherever one may need them.

Don't drag the toolbars around. I did, and one of them disappeared. Reinstalling fixed the problem easily enough. But that is the only bug I have found.

Thanks to the developer. I look forward to further updates!  
(Version 1.0)

SESQUIPEDALIAN  Wow! This lands a place on my short list of truly useful Dashboard widgets. I'll be using it to prep photos for web pages, presentations, etc.

Although the interface is very intuitive, it would be nice if there were some fuller documentation available. The design is beautiful and a pleasure to use. Nicely done!  
(Version 0.5.1)