Comments on: Exclusive: The Next Todos (Awesome OS X App)

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:48:48 +0000

Ooops, cheers to Dustin that is :)

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:48:11 +0000

Love Todos, thanks for taking the time to write it. As a visual person I do find it quicker to get to my apps using Todos, especially since bothering to take the time to set it up, which folders to scan and to set a shorter hotkey (Alt-A). I don’t want the control freakery of quicksilver and nor do I want a crammed dock or to have to drill through folders.

Cheers for Todos :)

By: Dustin Bachrach

Dustin Bachrach — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:06:53 +0000

New Version is out of beta and available to the public: http://www.dbachrach.com/opensoft/index.php?page=Todos

Oh, and Peter, I just want to say thanks. Nice summary.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:26:39 +0000

I tried it, and felt that it would be more useful as a widget. But I agree with others here, all these icons in no particular order is a mess and makes for a difficult finding session of the application I’m looking for. I like the widget iLife Launcher, easy enough. This is something I will be erasing unless they can figure out a better system.

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:00:18 +0000

@Peter – it’s amazing how you took the time to write such a negative comment moaning and whining about other people moaning and whining. Pot meet kettle.

By: Peter Chapman

Peter Chapman — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:47:10 +0000

Good grief. You’re such a load of moaning zealots. I read an article this morning on why Bryan O’Bryan was ditching th MAC community because of people like yourselves. I don’t own a MAC and so had had no experience on these hoards of whining complaing people. If you don’t like it, don’t bother with it and don’t use it! I’m not sure why you’re wasting your time commenting on it here anyway! Didn’t your mother ever tell you, if you don’t have anything nice to say, keep your mouth shut?

Stop wasting your time writing such negative comments and go leanr to program yourselves and try do better or at least so you can then see what its like to get bitched at for makign something others might want to use!

By: benny

benny — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:43:01 +0000

If I’m seeing it correctly, with Todos you can define a few programs, I see those borders around icons and have them started in one click??
I hope this is true, that would be very useful.
Mostly when I start to work on a website, I need to open up to 5 programs, and I need to open them one by one….

But btw great app!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:51:41 +0000

This seems to just be a larger version of the dock. That being said, I would use it in a second if it were a dashboard widget. There are a few alternatives out there, but they are not as easy for compiling all of your applications and don’t look as good. I would love to be able to click my scroll-wheel and have all of my apps appear along-side my other widgets. Sure, you could assign the application to one of your mouse buttons or a key stroke, but I would prefer to have it as a one-stop-shop.

By: Dale Cruse

Dale Cruse — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:45:04 +0000

I thought I was the only one sitting back thinking, “Yeah? So?” Glad to see I’m not. This doesn’t seem like a bad app – just nothing particularly compelling to make me download it. And a Windows version would be ugly. Big, pixellated Windows logos? No thanks.

By: xxdesmus

xxdesmus — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:22:10 +0000

A customizable shortcut would be a much better idea. Just an idea.

By: GoD of KaOS

GoD of KaOS — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:41:06 +0000

Is this App anything like Quicksilver and Launchbar?

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:40:31 +0000

Even with the updates, I still can’t see too much use for it. When you have a ton of apps, it’s just too painful to look through all of those icons. If you forget the name and can remember the icon, you can just as easily open up your applications folder and find it as well.

By: Dantanner

Dantanner — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:04:19 +0000

Cluster-clutter.

By: c.todd - phylum sinter

c.todd - phylum sinter — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:31:42 +0000

Nuggetbro: You might want to try using the start menu, or the add/remove programs app in control panel to see what you have installed in windows.

The neat interface here is kinda gimmicky, kinda useful. Depending on how hoggy it is while up is ultimately the deciding factor. Is it always scanning for new apps, or only on startup?

By: [GEEKS ARE SEXY] Tech. News

[GEEKS ARE SEXY] Tech. News — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:41:48 +0000

Yeah, it’s eyecandy, and we may not care much for it, but let’s admit it, eye candy sells for mr. and mrs everybody.

By: weisheng

weisheng — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:31:17 +0000

I agree with synd, I don’t believe Todos to be particularly useful. Having all those icons displayed at once is cluttered, confusing and serves no real purpose. I guess everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon for the novelty, but I haven’t tried Todos. I know there’s no comparison, but Quicksilver more than fulfills nearly all my launching needs.

By: shrin1

shrin1 — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:25:36 +0000

The only use for this application would be as the article reiterates – to see rarely used applications or to get ann inventory of what applications have been installed.

To compare Quicksilver and Todos is like comparing Apples and Oranges. To use Quicksilver *you have to know each and every application that you have installed* upfront but Todos just gives you entire list of applications at once. Other launcbars give you a similar functionality but it can get simply tedious since these menubar based launchers can quickly get overcrowded.

Especially if you just download the appication to try it out and then forget it.

So use your Dock for frequently used applications.
Use Quicksilver for applications that you don’t need to clutter up dock but you use frequently enough to remember their names and spell them !
Use Todos once in while if you forget what applications you have. You could essentially get the same thing if you browse the applications folder but Todos is cooler.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:14:25 +0000

Todos is bloody useless. Just some pointless eye candy.

By: synd

synd — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:14:12 +0000

It’s just another run-of-the-mill application launcher. Although, this one requires the user to try to memorize the icons, rather than already use the memorized application names. Which really doesn’t make sense. It’s nothing more than eye-candy to show off to your Windoze friends. Just like the Dock magnification or the shift+Expose trick.

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:00:32 +0000

Many people have compared QuickSilver to Todos

Todos is a one-trick pony. It’s pretty, and it might help you if you forget the name of an app and that app just so happens to have a distinctive icon, yet not so distinctive that it might help you remember its name… but it’s about as much like Quicksilver as a multiplication table is like a graphing calculator.

By: synd

synd — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:55:44 +0000

Use Todos. Waste time trying to find the icon that goes with the application you need. Waste resources. Confuse yourself. Be unproductive.

Use Quicksilver. Instantly find the applicaion or applications. Be productive.

By: Glenn Wolsey

Glenn Wolsey — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:50:06 +0000

Looking forward to the release, it’s a nice application.

By: Dustin Bachrach’s Blog » Blog Archive » Paul has the scoop on Todos 1.5

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:06:00 +0000

[...] Somehow Paul Stamatiou got his hands on some info about the new release of Todos, version 1.5. I wonder how he got that? Maybe it’s cause I had a big chat sharing pics and release notes of 1.5, or maybe he’s just a really talented blogger. Well both, but whatever. Check out Paul’s site for the exclusive release notes and sneak peaks of the UI. [...]

By: Nuggetbro

Nuggetbro — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:16:32 +0000

Wow the app looks like it can do alot of things. Is there a Windows version in the works ? Is there something similiar for the Windows OS that people could recommend ? Always love to see new useful tools, specially if they help me stay organised, which a NASA super computer running 20million TODOs would have trouble doing.