What is The Hit List? The Hit List is a task management app that helps users manage their tasks, whether it's big jobs, weekly errands, bucket lists, or a five-year plan. It is available for both iPhone and iPad, and can be used with The Hit List for Mac. The app is easy to learn and use, and it can be customized to fit the user's unique approach to task management.
- Capture tasks easily: Users can quickly add tasks to the app, whether it's a simple to-do list or a more complex project.
- Sync across devices: The Hit List can be used on both iPhone and iPad, and can be synced with The Hit List for Mac using the included sync service.
- Flexible task management: The app can be customized to fit the user's preferred task management system, whether it's Getting Things Done (GTD) or a unique approach.
- Simple interface: The app's interface is easy to use and navigate, making it simple to manage tasks.
- Powerful features: Despite its simple interface, The Hit List has powerful features that allow users to manage tasks effectively, such as tags, due dates, and priorities.
- Customizable views: Users can customize the app's views to fit their preferences, whether it's a simple list or a more complex project view.
- Reminders: The app can send reminders for upcoming tasks, ensuring that users never miss a deadline.
- Collaboration: Users can share tasks with others and collaborate on projects, making it easy to work together on complex tasks.
Powerful, flexible, and simple task management — for everything. Big jobs? Weekly errands? Bucket lists? Five year plan? No sweat. Whatever the task, capture it in The Hit List — then relax. Let The Hit List keep track of it for you, freeing you to focus, and be more effective with time management and task management. Use it on your iPhone or iPad. Use it with The Hit List for Mac (available on the Mac App Store). Use one app, or both with the included fast, reliable sync service to have everything you need at hand and in sync right when you want it. It’s easy to learn — it’s as easy as making lists. And, it’s powerful enough to let you plan, let it go, then act at the right time. The Hit List scales with you, from simple list-making, to the power and flexibility of systems such as Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen, or your very own unique approach. Life is complicated enough. The tool you use to manage life’s chaos doesn’t need to be. Keep it simple, with The Hit List. You can use it to manage a to-do list just like you would on a piece of paper. Or you can do much more. With The Hit List, the interface simplicity belies the power within. Available for Mac (sold separately on the Mac App Store), and for iPhone, iPad as a Universal app. Use one app, or both with the included sync service to have everything you need at hand and in sync when you want it.
By rmatei
The Hit List is remarkable in how it combines simplicity with extraordinary power. I’ve tried nearly every major task manager and this is my permanent companion. The iOS version is solid in its own right but it’s the Mac version that it’s a companion to that really shines. If you do most of your work there it’s worth considering the joint system. What’s so good about it: - the ability to have infinite nesting. It’s most natural for me to add high level tasks and then later break them out into subtasks at will. THL makes it as easy as writing a bullet list. Other managers force you to decide what’s a “project” and what’s a “task”. - the combination of tagging and custom views - for instance, all tasks marked today + start of the day, to track what I need to do at the start of the day, or on the phone, or on the go. - the differentiation between start and end dates. Something can’t be done until next week? No problem, just defer it. Other managers often only have due dates, which makes it hard to differentiate between “have to do this tomorrow” and “can do this tomorrow”. - the masterful keyboard shortcuts on desktop. Anything you want to do can be done in less than a second and you feel like a ninja. - the ability to add estimated time while on desktop. This easily lets me see if I’m biting off more than I can chew for the day. And the attached timer adds some soft accountability - why have I spent an hour on something that I thought could be done in 20 minutes? THL deserves to be near the top of every productivity addict’s toolbox - props to the creators.
By @TommyW
THL landed on scene when Getting Things Done apps were the focus of developers exploring where mobile and desktop meet over productivity. It was from a single developer and didn't have the full team behind it that other apps, notably Things and Omifocus, had. As such it didn't get the profile and love that it deserves. Those days are over now Karelia took it on. It's an excellent, flexible, intelligent app that handles tasks, projects, lists and notes with ease. Download the Mac trial and see if it works for you. The app lies between Things and Omnifocus in terms of complexity and features. It far exceeds both in terms of character, it's immensely likeable. Syncing is seamless and now there's an iPad version which makes it pretty well feature complete. Highly recommended.
By panman1
Searched thru most of the major available ‘To Do’ related apps, read functionality, looked at websites, read reviews, downloaded a couple prospects - mostly disappointed - either too expensive, lacked the desired features I wanted (a good printing capability, particularly), or over sophisticated for my current personal needs ( not working in a team-share-collaborate environment). But, I found ‘The Hit List’, which sounded to cover most of my needs, though not as high rated as others. Downloaded, installed and went to work. Loved that it was quite intuitive with just exploring solving most of my issues. Especially liked that sub tasking was native and easy. Task time assignment and accomplishment tracking was adequate. Priority assignment adequate. Tagging/labeling has added potential that I haven’t explored yet. The project/file/list/task structure was perfect for my set-up needs. Then printing - I was almost excited. Was able to print a nice list of all items placed in Inbox - great. Then made assignments to folders/lists and added dates. Tried to print ‘Today’ tasks - worked ok - tasks were accounted for in mailed list properly for printing. Next, the big one, ‘Upcoming’. Well right off, the preview looked perfect (ordered by ‘List’ option) - upcoming items were properly allocated to Inbox, and my designated folder/file designations, Wow, looks great - just what I wanted. Then I sent to email (using Share) so I could get a printable copy. Well, for whatever reason, the printed checklist I got reverted to the Inbox list, not the correct list that showed up in the preview version... RATS! Update: I made a MISTAKE. Further work with the app to understand what it’s doing shows that printing is working pretty good, accurate in general, just not perfect. The results seen ‘on-screen’ in the Inbox, Today and Upcoming views are correct, and complete if you have made date assignments, and Folder/List assignments. The views also break out the tasks under a category title, which is great. However, when you send the view to email, in order to get a printable checklist, the data is correct, but will not be in the same order as the view and will not have the category title grouping the tasks. So the checklist printout seems workable, just not as nice as the on-screen presentation with the categories broken out. Would give the app 5 stars if this small correction was made! Overall, the app is great for my purposes.