MLO or Omnifocus?

[Aaron]

I am a new GTDer and I am using MLO Trail Version for several days. I am wondering which is better between MLO and Omnifocus, because there are so few discussions about MLO outside this Google Group. I am using windows now, but I don't know if I will switch to Mac in the future.
Hope for hearing from you!

[Brian Cohen]

Fabulous question!

Actually, I am/was a long time Omnifocus user, but am now on MLO (I do use Windows at work, so that factored into it of course).  But after using MLO for about 6 months, and even trying other Web based services recently like Iqtell, Zendone, and Todoist, I have found nothing, I mean, nothing, that even comes close to the breath of functionality, speed, and usability of MLO. For almost every feature the other GTD apps lack, MLO has.  I am in the process of writing a LONG post in the "why I like MLO" thread, that will explain this is in detail.  Yeah, I would love for MLO to have a Mac, or probably  better yet, Web UI version, but nonetheless, MLO is so good, it's woth virtualizing it on a Mac (or Linux) in some way (Crossovers, Parallels, VMware Fusion or Workstation).  Unfortunately, that means additional $$ to spend on these hypervisors and/or a Windows license.

Aaron, keep an eye out in the pinned thread about "Why I like MLO" for more details.  

-Brian

[SRhyse]

Omnifocus isn't a bad app, but it's very rigidly locked into one way of viewing and handling things that in my experience doesn't fully allow it to rise beyond the level of slightly nifty list manager. It's very well integrated and extended inside of OS X, but the number of people that take advantage of that, or even can, are relatively few.

What exactly are you looking to manage with either MLO or Omnifocus? Personally, I have experience with both and by far prefer MLO for its flexibility and more natural way of managing information. It isn't integrated with anything on OS X, but you're presently not either, and don't even know if you'd be in a position to be if you did make the switch to benefit from any of that. It also doesn't run on OS X at all, despite workarounds with Parallels and such.

[Brian Cohen]

SRhyse,

I am happily running MLO on a Mac via Parallels (currently sitll on Parallels 8).  I am on OS X Mavericks 10.9.  If you mean it can't run on OS X directly, of course, true.  I tried Crossover, but it was ugly (both visually and functionally).  Luckily, I had an old Windows 7 Pro license already for Parallels.

-Brian

[Aaron]

Brian,

Thank you for your detailed answer! It is always hard to choose a software for me, I am just unwilling to try numerous softwares this time. As a Windows user, using MLO can indeed help me save some $$.
Sorry for poor English.I am looking forward for your post!

Aaron

在 2013年12月17日星期二UTC+8上午6时24分33秒，Brian Cohen写道：

[Philb]

They are both good at what they do.   However, from using both apps, MLO is far more flexible and will allow you to set up a task list any way you want.   They both take some time to learn.

Phil.

On Sunday, December 15, 2013 6:48:26 AM UTC-5, Aaron wrote: