Kevin C. Wong

End of The Hit List

After upgrading to macOS Big Sur my longtime To Do / List Tracker app, The Hit List, finally shows its age.

  • You can't click on a tab to switch to that tab
  • Renaming a list crashes the app
  • Creating a list crashes the app (probably because it goes to edit name mode)

Since Karelia Software has become a zombie I don't expect the app to ever be updated again.

I really didn't use any features other than outliner stuff and setting item state to Active, Done, Cancelled. But it was very good at that because it was easy to move items around and collapse folders.

I didn't use the priority system (marking an item with a priority of none, 1 to 9), start and end date tracking, due dates, I think there is a way to track time spent on a task. So the useful scheduling/prioritizing features of any To Do List app.

So mostly used as an outliner where you can check-off done items. Which means I don't have to get a new app like Omni Focus ($100 per year) but can use Pages with an outliner document.

Addendum: After setting up a Page document I decided this would be better in Notes. This way I don't have another app open on my Mac.