As a highly project-oriented creative type, it’s critical for me to have an easy-to-use system for tracking action items within contexts or projects. While there are a countless number of applications that claim to manage your to-do list, none of them do it as elegantly—and intuitively—as Things, by Cultured Code.

Things combines powerful features with a simple, one-window interface that seems instantly familiar to anyone who’s used a Mac. With tightly integrated support for tags and intelligent filtering, it allows for quick and easy focusing. Together with a beautiful user interface, Things aims at the seemingly impossible: making task management both easy and fun.

They’ve got an iPhone app as well, which lets you access your projects, contexts and to-dos while on the go. I actually find myself using the iPhone interface more often than the desktop software, although they sync beautifully with one another, allowing me 24/7 access to my projects and tasks.

Download the free trial now from their website. Sign up for their email newsletter and get 20% off when they launch the real app in the Fall.

Link: http://culturedcode.com/things/