Things To Users: “Your Things version has expired”

Duncan Riley — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:02:33 +0000

Getting Things Done application Things has been slowly growing a dedicated user base through word of mouth and coverage on various GTD and similar websites. It’s a great application for dealing with task management, and since starting to use it a little over a month a go I’ve come to rely on it for nearly every daily task. It does take discipline, and it doesn’t always help in getting everything done, but you’ve always got a list of things you should be getting done. So imagine my surprise when I opened things this morning and saw this:

Zero access to every outstanding task (from embargoed posts through to email responses) I had to get through today, and worse still a complete inability to allocate new tasks as required.

I respect that software developers have the need to expire software on occasion, for example with a trial version or as Plasq regularly does with Skitch, for security updates. But the problem with Things: there is ZERO way at the time of writing to rid yourself of the expiry message. The software version on the site is the exact same version I’m running (I tried installing it). The software is still in development and is currently free (they are planning on charging from the 1.0 release), but I’d pay now to fix it. The dev team is in Germany where it’s still the middle of the night so if you’re waiting on a response from me for something, apologies in advance. I’ll update the post when I get a response from them, and the user thread is here.

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Things To Users: “Your Things version has expired”