Best App for Handling a lot of Projects/Tasks – OmniFocus 2 Review

I’ve spent quite a bit of time in recent years reading about and trying out to-do apps. Each one has strengths and weaknesses, and what might be the best app for one person, may not be the best for another. However, it seems to me that for anyone managing a large volume of projects and tasks, I don’t think Omnifocus can be beat. This is primarily because of its use of defer dates (allowing one to use due dates very sparingly), and its review function (allowing one to put projects or tasks on hold, but still have a systematic way of making sure you don’t let things fall through the cracks). To my knowledge, there aren’t any other apps out there that have either of these features. There’s been a lot of fanfare about Things 3 and it’s simplicity and UI. I’ve given it a try, but the simplicity also means that it can get very cluttered if you have a lot of projects. For me, Omnifocus strikes the perfect balance of offering complex project management options, while still allowing for a clean interface showing only what I want to see. Another very nice thing about Omnifocus is this app works just as well only using its most basic features. It can be as simple or complex as you’d like. As I’ve moved from being a student to an attorney over the past 10 years, I’ve moved from using the app for simple to-do lists to managing 100+ projects for work. This is a very well-designed app with incredibly reliable encrypted syncing, a responsive support team, and it always seems to be under active development and working to incorporate the most requested features from users. I’ve run my life with this app on iOS and Mac for quite awhile, and am very happy with it. I’m excited to see what Omnifocus 3 brings, especially with the much needed implementation of tags (instead of contexts), and hopefully some improvements to UI, which in my opinion is really the only place Things 3 has it beat for the time being. Thank you to all the people at Omnigroup for all their continued work on this great app.
Review by Edward Dansen on OmniFocus 2.