Finally, 2007 is over and the expensive holiday season is behind us. We can now move on to the much more expensive MacWorld season, where Santa Steve showers us with cool, shiny, gotta have ‘em, new products. I have to admit, my chances of not buying anything during that week is pretty low.

As someone who works everyday on a Mac (a MacBook Pro 15″), I’m always looking for new and more efficient ways to manage my work day. Lot’s of tasks to manage, lot’s of email coming in, lot’s of people calling. That’s why MacWorld is so interesting to me. Sure, Steve will give us new products but other 3rd party developers will also do the same.

Leopard was a huge release for developers (in terms of API) and I can’t wait to see what new applications will come out because of it. TextMate, my favorite text editor is scheduled to have its 2.0 release fairly soon, Delicious Library 2.0 is coming any day/week now. OmniFocus 1.0 final is also scheduled to be released monday while OmniGraffle 5.0 is at beta 3 and I’m sure we’ll see many many more in the coming months. Most of these apps will be Leopard-only, a fact that would be surprising if not for the incredible conversion rate of Apple’s OS X releases these last few years. Leopard came out at the end of october, some 3 months ago and we’re already at almost 30% of usage. This is nothing short of amazing to me and it explains why developers are so quick to jump on the new APIs and the new OSes from Apple. This is something you don’t see with new releases of Windows.I’m really excited to see all the cool software we’ll get in 2008.

For now, I’m having a hard time deciding between OmniFocus and Things for my tasks management app. I think I need an app to manage my management of tasks.