KAIDOH  I really like Xmind and was looking forward for further refinement in this upgrade. Unfortunately this update seems not yet ready for prime time: I tried to open a workbook created with the previous version and I'm only getting an completely empty sheet. This is an absolute show stopper for me and it seems I'll have to wait a little further.  
(Version 3.0)

KAIDOH  I shall not rate this app only on a video? What other possibilities do I have - apart from buying it? You not even communicating that this is beta. I had a look at the screenshot. The fields in the Task Editor are not even named. I won't wait for any other video. I recommend Things or OmniFocus instead. They cost more but at least you can try them before buying them.  
(Version 1.0)

KAIDOH  An app I have to buy before I can have a look at it? Ridiculous! That so called video tour is capable of making me sea sick as it is a nervous panning over some GUI at a high zoom level. Felt 80 % of the video ist about how you invoke the preferences of the app. In the preferences the only available setting seems to be that for automatic updates. The video not even shows the menu bar, so one has simply no idea, what the app could do! From what you can see one can easily guess that this junk's task management capabilities are not even anywhere near of what you find in iCal.

This is not a shameless rip off. This is just paltry.  
(Version 1.0)

KAIDOH  The search&replace functionality is still there, it is just less buttons. From the release notes:

“Selected text only” affects only the “Find All” and “Replace All” operations: if there is a selection range in the front document, this option will search only the selection range if turned on, or the entire document (starting from the top) if turned off.

“Wrap around” affects only the “Next”, “Previous”, “Replace”, and “Replace & Find” operations: if the search reaches the end of the document (or the beginning, if doing a “Previous”), then “Wrap around” will continue the search from the appropriate end of the document.

If you find it too confusing you can go back to the old modal find window via the option “Use modal Find dialog” in Preferences > Text Search.  
(Version 9.0)

KAIDOH  There is autocompletion for HTML tags! All the entries from the HTML clippings are available through auto completion (check out if you have a HTML.html folder in the clippings section of your support folder - it should be there by default). There is also the Tag Maker in the Markup Menu (cmd+m by default). I recommend you check out the manual on BBEdit's plethora of HTML funcions (chapter 11).  
(Version 9.0)

KAIDOH  I've been searching for a small quick-and-easy audio editor and although WavePad looks promising it's quirks outgun it's benefits. Some occurances:

- First crash a minute after the first launch.

- Space bar does not start and stop playback as in virtually ANY other audio app.

- Working with selections is a pain: extending or diminishing an existing selection seems impossible (so you better select precise on the first attempt)

- And oddest: Using the window scroll bar does not scroll the window as one would expect but does move the playback cursor (and yes, hence destroying an existing selection)

The developer should be a more adherent to the common principles of GUI-design or this app will be nothing more than constant cause for frustration.  
(Version 3.10)

KAIDOH  Same for me: I used OG Pro for years and I really like it. The new features would be appreciated. But every user always only needs a subset of the new stuff (for me Visio support is absolutely unimportant while shared layers sound very promising). I understand that Omni wants to earn money with their products, but 80 $ for an upgrade is too steep for my budget and it's perceived benefit (as it is for OmniFocus btw).

I guess I'll be happy keeping version 4 for quite a while and hope for a discount some day.  
(Version 5.0)

KAIDOH  A lot about the non-macness of this app was already said. I personally find it easy to use and it didn't take me long to achieve the feeling that the app is under my control.

But there are a lot of downsides to this app:

- Printing is a pain

- Instable, instable, instable: Palettes freeze or won't show up after you click the appropriate icon. Only restarts seem to help this. And unknown combinations of formatings seem to drive the program crazy: Too often the fans of my macbook go wild and the activity monitor tells me that XMIND is eating up all the CPU it can lay it's hands on. Again only restarting the app (and deleting the last changes after that) helps.

My conclusion: XMIND could be a nice and easy programm to boost your mindmapping, Unfortunately the stability issues overlay that potential. With the (non-MU-bundle) price of XMIND one could expect a stable, usable app. XMIND does not deliver in this regard and can't be recommended in it's current state.  
(Version 2.1)

KAIDOH  Thanks for the quick Leopard update. I don't know what I would have done without this extremly useful app. Highly recommended - even for keyboard junkies who can finally make peace with their mouse.  
(Version 1.7.2)

KAIDOH  Thanks, that helped. But there is a little itchy feeling, it might happen again sometimes. - Time for a backup plan ;-)

Otherwise this is a very promising app developing at an incredible speed. Thanks to the developer for his time and ethusiasm!  
(Version 1.3.4)

KAIDOH  Uff, I finally found the time to try this out. I entered about 30 tasks in different projects and different contexts. I hit 'Sync' and everything disappeared! All tasks were gone. And they didn't show up in iCal. What is going on? Is anybody else experiencing this sort of problems?!  
(Version 1.3.4)

KAIDOH  Is this some kind of joke?

- No iCal integration

- No palm, mobile phone or whatever synchronisation

- Export only to XML

- No drag 'n' drop support

- No system wide service or any other way to add tasks

- No spotlight integration

- No GUI that deserves the name

- Not even proper shortcuts

- No Applescript support

- Not one reason to pay almost 50 (in words FIFTY!!!) bucks for this!

This is a ridicilous try to make money out of poor GTG addicts. Beware! Try something else: kGTD, Midnight, iGTD, Thinking Rock, TiddlyWiki, Backpack or anything else. Even pen and paper will fit your GTD needs better than Vortex.  
(Version 1.0.10)

KAIDOH  I own and use DevonThink Pro. But I yet have not found out how to email with it or how to manage my appointments with it. If you wold have compared the features of DevonThink with that of Yojimbo you could have made a useful contribution for the readers of this site. But ranting about one app without giving any reason but a "try someotherapp and you'll see what I mean" is just poor style and the opposite of helpful - it's waste of time.

To contribute something possilby useful on the topic: I took both mentioned apps for a test drive. DevonThink won the race as I consider it better at handling of big data collections on a scientific background with many cross references - and that was what I was looking for. But IMO Yojimbo seems better for personal data collection: It has a slicker interface, better integration with the system and is much easier to use.  
(Version 1.4.1)

KAIDOH  zx, I don't get your point: Are you complaining that you can't mail from Yojimbo, that you can't listen music with it while editing your holiday pictures? Some of us don't have a problem having several applications open each specialised in it's own profession. Yojimbos profession is to collect and organize information with ease and as far as I can tell, it does a pretty good job at it. Your comment would be appreciated if it was on the topic and not just hot air about narrow minded developers who don't get what "we" really want.  
(Version 1.4.1)

KAIDOH  This is a functionality apple should have implemented all along. Mail Type Select is a gift to all the keyboard junkies amongst users of apples mail app. Thanks for providing this at no cost!  
(Version 2.6)

KAIDOH  Yes they do! I gave Textmate a serious try and consider it an advanced editor with an interesting approach. But I returned to BBEdit after the demo period. It still has a lot of features I would be missing: FTP browser, text factories, well thought out search functions, flawless handling of character encodings, flexible mulit-file tools, "process lines containing", sophisticated applescript support, a grown and highly customizable interface ... With the 8.5 improvements, the decision was even easier. But I nevertheless appreciate the competition at the editor front forcing the developers to improve their software constantly.  
(Version 8.5)