DayMap for Mac

The current version is 2.1.3

I write for a living, I have umpteen mini projects on the go, and I'm also a visual person. The GTD approach is far too prissy for me, too much wasted energy (and too much of a distraction from what I should be doing).
With that in mind, I've literally tried every piece of project and todo software on Macupdate over the past ten years and couldn't settle on any of them.
Until now.
Daymap suits the way I work, holds all the info I need for my working day and in its present form (v2.1.1) it has just cleared up my desktop, and my head in just half an hour.
It's a lot like the web based TeuxDeux (TD), but that is twice the cost, paid year on year, with only marginal extra functionality.

Below this, WChiseler has posted a really good in depth review that covers all the functionality and wishlist bases, and all I can add is it would be nice to be able to change font and font colour just to jazz the screen up a bit, oh, and startup at login, that would be nice too..
I expect TD's ability to automatically move uncompleted tasks on to the following day might be a big ask, but that would be the icing on the cake for me.
I note some complaints further down the page about a demo version not being available, but the user video on the developers website was more than enough detail to help me decide to buy.
Nice, uncluttered software, doing what software should do. Make my working day easier.

(DayMap is now in version 2.) DayMap excels by offering big picture “Forest” view of your projects and your weekly/monthly schedule without losing sight of the individual “Trees” of each project and each day. The multi-column layout keeps everything from mingling into a long, overwhelming list. Features I find particularly helpful: ✓ column layout of projects +/- week/month schedule (EXCELLENT) ✓ subtasks ✓ view Calendar events, launch Calendar ✓ custom sort tasks for each day, including repeats (manual drag-and-drop) ✓ delete, reschedule repeat tasks individually (e.g. do 2 laundry loads Tuesday, instead of 1 each Monday & Tuesday, skip Wed.) ✓ text search semi-substitute for priority, tags, e.g. “!!” lists any task which contains “!!” in its title or notes ✓ show/hide a particular # days of completed items or none ✓ half/full screen support My wish list of app enhancements: - notifications/alerts - keyboard shortcuts: move to tomorrow, schedule Today, unschedule, navigation between columns - sort tasks & Calendar events: drag “Pick Up Dry Cleaning ” task after “8:00 AM - Meeting” and before “7:30 PM Restaurant Dinner” - subtler (grey?) “Scheduled” indicator — RED suggests priority, but neighboring tasks in the project list might be much more important but harder to schedule. - Day view / compact mode - enhanced repeats: every # days, every Mon, Wed, Fri, …, —ideally even: every # workdays - month filters: hide-repeating tasks, show only tasks which contain search field text - Android app & sync (or maybe import/export to Reminders for workaround sync) - maybe: auto re-sort an individual day, say alphabetically, while keeping manual sort option

The best planning software!

While I really like DayMap (see my review below), I must say that I am startled about the recent design decision to colour the toolbar in light grey – it looks as if the window is inactive! That's really unnecessarily confusing and I wonder what the developer had in mind when coming up with an idea like that! (also strange: instead of icons we got flat buttons in the rounded shape of pre-Lion buttons)