@Richard Neal: We will indeed add an importer for one specific other GTD app. But since we are having AppleScript support, everyone can write their own importer. Take a look here for some examples (maybe what you are looking for is already there):

User Contributed Scripts

I’ve tried and tested others , but THINGS beats it hands down by the sheer fact that its simple and usable.

WIth over the air Sync , its should be the tipping point where this product is going to go thru the roof.

Thanks again for making “Things” better for us all!

I would love this as well, and it would make sense since “Next” should show the “next” actions.

Other than that keep it up guys Things is a wonderful product!

I only have one request I haven’t seen mentioned: the ability to filter by tags and see only ‘next’ actions. In other words, when I filter by a tag (e.g. ‘home’), I currently see all tasks which have that tag including those which are not really ‘available’ because they are number 2 or 3 in a project. For example, let’s say I have a project to clean the steps. First item is to go buy some soap and a brush, second is to do the cleaning at home. I can’t do the cleaning until I complete action 1 (the errand); but when I select the tag ‘home’ to see what tasks I can do at home, it comes up telling me to ‘clean the steps’. This isn’t a huge deal because of course I can mentally filter that out, but I’ve always thought it would be nice to select a tag and just see ‘next’ actions, i.e. the next available actions rather than actions which are further down the list of a project. In other words, to use tags to quickly see which things I can do right now in a particular context. I’m not sure how feasible that is from a development point of view, and of course adding complexity is the last thing we want (simplicity, speed and elegance are still the biggest joys of Things, compared with competing products), so it’s just a thought rather than a real issue, but there you have it. Keep up the excellent work!

Nested tasks are indeed dangerous, the power of things comes from its simplicity. Mile stones or a list of task-break-downs would be a much more safe option. For example, if I had a task of calling all of my customers I would first have to decide between making one task “call all customers” or create a separate task for each customers call “Call customer 1, call customer 2, call customer n”. If each call had its own set of information such as “Call Fred Smith on Tuesday and follow up on Widget order” then each call would obviously warrant a dedicated task. If however, my task is as generic as “Call all customers and tell them about our new promotion” then it would be great to have a single task which contained a list of customers that I could check-off as I contact them. Note that these are not full tasks with my main task as a parent. They don’t have all the attributes of a task, they can’t stand on their own. They are just items on a very simple list which can be checked off one at a time.

Things touch works great for viewing and checking off tasks. And for tasks as simple as “Buy bread” it’s easy enough to create tasks on-the-go. My problem come when I’m at work, where I have my iPhone and my PC, but not my Mac. The tasks I create while at work are too verbose and detailed to use the TT interface. Though the iPhone has a great keyboard and TT has a fantastic interface it takes too much effort to enter these complicated tasks. As a result my tasks usually end up on the PC where I can typing using a real keyboard. It would be nice if there was a web-app that could be used in combination with OTA sync to do task creation. In short, I don’t need Things to run on a PC, but a webapp I could use to do data entry and then sync OTA would mean I can fully use Things even when I’m not at home with my Mac.

Thanks for the great apps and keep up the good work.

Cheers,
Lew