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With Things, the regular date you set for a task is the Start Date. The Due Date is called "Deadline".
I like this advice from the official set-up guide:
> Include the fun or interesting things that you’d love to do, too. If you only add your obligations, looking over your to-dos will become a chore.
When it comes to productivity software, personal taste factors in a lot. I've been using Things for years, but these days I use it more because I'm used to it (and already paid for it) than because it's the best around.
Clients have been saying good things about Wunderlist. It's free and works across devices.
PS: If I were to start anew today, I'd probably go with Asana. So far I've only used it for project work, but I can't see why it wouldn't be a good option for personal to-dos as well.
- It's user friendly for the casual user and the pro, and offers a UNIX environment for all of your development needs. There is great app support, ie. most likely a polished app more than capable for anything you may want to do.
- It's pretty stable. Continuity works well, and is just one of the many features you'll use in a day.
- Yes. It's like candy for your eyes.
- You can use absolutely any monitor you'd like, though will need a DisplayPort adapter (~$20).
- Yes. OS X has been maturing for many years in a global ecosystem of different platforms, and has learned to play well with them all. iCloud Drive is available on Windows, Mac and iOS. Of course, you can fully integrate Google Drive or Dropbox into your system if you need Android or Linux support.
- There is some incredibly polished software for OS X. You can find what you're looking for, and the built-in App Store makes it easy for you to explore and install them. ex. Things
- The hardware is supported with OS updates for many years, and generally holds resale value and usefulness for many more years than other computers.
The only realistic argument I've ever heard against Apple products is, "I can't afford it."
that did it thanks!! I didnt know "start anytime" means to reset!
https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2785159/
also not sure why the downvotes!
Things is basically just a list manager with fancy filters to show you what you want to see at a specific time. Things uses those filters to roughly follow the GTD philosophy. Cultured Code explain their version of it on their website here:
Anytime is home for all of the to-dos you could start at any time. It’s a good place to look when putting together your Today list or planning your week in Upcoming.
Someday is the place for to-dos that you might like to get to, but you’re not sure when. Regularly review what you’ve added here to decide if it’s time to act.
Don't get too caught up in all the features. Use only those parts of Things that you find useful.
If this is a new icon, they've also started using it on their site. This one is at the top of their home page: https://culturedcode.com/things/2017-03-25/images/herologo-theallnewthings.png
Update:
https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2967034/#restoring-deleted-to-dos
Checked support FAQ page:
>On the Mac, deleted to-dos and projects go to the Trash. Since
there’s no trash on iOS, all deletions are permanent which is why we’ve made deletions a 3-step-process. You can, however, recover the last deleted item: shake your device immediately after a deletion to recover it. On an iPad with an external keyboard, hit CMD + Z.
Shook the iphone vigourously, it didn't return the list. Apparently, It wasn't immediate enough. My list is gone. Feeling like Things3 did me real dirty today.
RIP Garage.
I've been attempting to use Things on my Mac and iPhone, but I find the rigidity a bit limiting. The polish is wonderful, but sometimes I run into categorical walls on the way I can layout my tasks.
As of yesterday I've begun to take another look at Sorted, which is a more scheduling-focused take on the simple lists app, Clear. I think my ideal system is a mix between the day-centric nature of Sorted and the project-centric nature of Things.
I highly recommend checking out both. Sorted is a free download though.
Reminders app. Set a reminder, set a date, set a repeat schedule. (Monday, repeat every week)
When you tick it off it’ll go away, and come back next week.
Alternatively, Check out “things”
The date you are referring to is not designed to function as “due date”. It is the date that you need to start working on a task.
It sounds like you’re actually looking for the “Deadline” feature, which will tell you how many days you have left to complete your task. If you pass your deadline then Things will indicate how many days overdue your task is in red.
Go back to basics here.
+1 for shared account. My spouse and I opted to share an entire Things account and the syncing and everything continues to work great for our needs. If it helps, Cultured Code talks about it here.
I try to achieve (email) inbox zero every day and for that ~~use~~ rely on the ‘Quick Entry with autofill’ (ctrl + option + space) feature in combination with Apple Mail. This generates a new task with a hyperlink to that e-mail instead of copying the text to the email like with ‘mail to things’.
That email is than archived as I try to answer or proces all my emails immediately or move them to my Things Inbox. I find that keeps the best GTD workflow for me. For some reason all other email apps that feature Things integration I tried just have to much distracting features to me personally.
On the site of Things it says ‘Quick Entry with autofill’ feature might also work with 3rd party apps, maybe worth a try: https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803569/
Cheers!
- I use VS Code for development. It's sort of midway between Sublime and PyCharm.
- I generally debug using Tensorboard, thought it's not great for aggregating results, so I also write key results to csv/json files and generate custom plots/tables.
- Things for day-to-day stuff and keeping track of active work, Overleaf for fleshing out the details.
- I try to follow papers by summarizing the key ideas in a physical notebook, and reproducing the import proofs.
- PyTorch
- My own :-)
Other info:
- I use Github for version control with strict branching. I create a Git repo for every new project/idea, and import the necessary components from a core library.
- I generally develop and debug algorithms on my workstation, and then scale up experiments by running them on our GPU cluster.
- I use notebooks sparingly. Notebooks encourage pretty bad design practices and low reusibility, but are good as a semi-interactive interface for certain things.
Sorry for the later reply. Here's the tl;dr to your question: design.
Things 3 just has this feel and aesthetic that OmniFocus severely lacks. I sent OF many emails over the years requesting they ditch all the lines and grids. This isn't excel… it's a task manager.
I think I was even so bold as to request they hire a new designer. Or even let me design for them, pro bono.
I always got back the standard, "Thanks so much for your feedback, we'll share it with our team."
But I have a feeling my comments just got lost in a database somewhere.
I was so invested in OF (no joke, I had over 1000 projects in there), that I never thought I'd pry myself free. But the system got so out of hand, so slow, and so clunky, I just declared bankruptcy.
I did a trial of Things 3 on my Mac, and I was in love the instant I started using it. It lived up to the hype of the Things 3 intro video, which I must have watched 10 times.
It was all the stuff I was asking OF to be.
But honestly, u/rberenguel said it best:
> OmniFocus is "too much"… There are too many ways of sorting, handling, preparing, ordering, tagging. Things3 constrains a lot what you can do, while offering most of what you want.
I feel the exact same way.
Things 3 does less. And I like that. I like that there is a rigid system that I need to conform too, with great flexibility in tags.
At the end of the day, you want to love the way your hammer feels in your hands. If you dread picking it up, hate how it looks, and get calluses from using it, it's time to find a new hammer.
Might be misunderstanding what you mean by jumpstart popover but in Things 3.6 and above Command-S brings up the date popup and from there you can enter "Tuesday 5pm" or even just "tu 5pm" to create your reminder.
This works on both the Mac and the iOS versions of the app. More keyboard shortcut details here.
I use the app Things. It's only for Mac/iOS and pretty expensive, so it might not be an option for you, but I like it. It's basically just a to-do list, but you can sort them into projects or areas, add notes and dates and stuff. The interface is nice. I bought it on impulse but I've been actually using it for over six months.
Here's cultured code's apple script guide. You definitely can extract the todos from the today view using a script. You should look into this.
I've been using it for a couple of years. as /u/rubya_eleven mentions the inability to support multiple tags per task is really annoying. My kludge is to add tags to the Notes field prefixed with #.
At work we use Rally for project management, so I have tasks there and I have tasks in OmniFocus, and I need to keep track of both. I haven't come up with a good way to synchronize these, but admittedly I haven't thought too hard about it. I'm sure the REST API to Rally can be used in conjunction with OmniFocus Pro's scripting support.
I haven't experienced any problems syncing between my Mac and my iPhone.
No problems with performance, though I don't have a ton of tasks yet.
I switched to OmniFocus from Things, I can't remember why beyond I'm a long time user of OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner.
Apple's Notes? Use the folders.
If that's too light-weight: Things
Also consider that you might have too much process in your task keeping, if it's more than just a couple of lists with a few larger notes.
For a future episode I would like to hear how you deal with organising your ideas. From an earlier episode Grey talked about that if something pops into his head he makes a new note in the Notes notes app on his iPhone. Once in a while you go evaluate them and trow the useless ones away. My question is: what happens to the ideas that are considered to be worthy of further fought? Do you keep them in a different folder? Do they go into a different system/application? And how many items does this system contain?
I ask this because I have currently some difficulty deciding what my own system should be. As a result my "system" has become really fragmented. I try to figure out a system consisting of Evernote, a todo list application^[1] and a physical notebook. It's really hard to figure out what information should go where and in what order.
^[1] In the past I used Things a lot. It's a great application, but it's way too expensive for what it does and it doesn't work outside the Apple ecosystem.
I tried using Wunderlist for a while. It's costs nothing and works on everything. But it looks ugly and awkward to use. To me it feels like a knock-off of Things.
Informed by Greys stories I'm currently giving Omnifocus a try. I can see why someone could use for everything. I like how you can work with folders to nest as many items as you want. Yet I still have the feeling that I'm using Omnifocus as effectively as I could. Could Grey and/or Mike elaborate on how to get started with Omnifocus? Or alternatively: do you have any other project-based todo applications you could recommend?
For my personal projects, I use GitLab running on a personal server for source code management. It has built-in issue tracking with user created labels, so you can have labels like "bug," "enhancement," etc.
I know that's there, but I don't actually use it. I usually just keep track of bugs and enhancements in Things. I like having everything in my life in one place as far as "to-dos" go.
Work projects, everything goes through our internal Redmine bug tracker.
can't really tell you many school tips specific for Mac that wouldn't apply to Windows as well.
personally, I use the stock Calendar app (and sync it with my phone via iCloud) to remember my schedule, and I use Things for iOS and Mac as a to-do list for assignments, though the Reminders app is free and should be fine for most people.
I also use Fantastical for Mac to quickly glance at my calendar, it uses the same calendar that the stock Calendar app does.
100% Things 3 it works across your Mac, iPad and phone. I use it to keep track of research, tests, anki, home projects, volunteering. Its the only way I can stay semi-sane right now.
Hey, you can use Craft online through the web app (not sure if it supports the day notes though). Alternatively, you can export tasks directly off of the SQL file stored by Things on your Mac. That can be a bit tricky but if you wanna go down that path I’m happy to help!
I save my searches by using Things URLs
I had the same thought as you when I started ; I don't want to be clicking on each tag to get the view I wanted. Using a combination of Things URL and Alfred worked like a charm.
In addition to the advice I gave to the OP, you can try the advice in these links:
https://appletoolbox.com/app-updates-not-working-or-showing-up-in-app-store/
https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/4522602/#qtyxq
> However, it's generally a good idea to not log into one's personal accounts on work computers.
I would say there’s less risk involved temporarily signing into the App Store then signing back out, than there is storing your Things database on a work computer.
What’s your concern with signing in?
And if you do go down this route, make sure you delete the database data as well as the app.
Another way to do it is to set a start date the day you want to start working on it and an due date when you want to turn it in. instead of checking it off when you're done working on it for the day, you can push it to the next day (e.g., ctrl + ] will push the start day forward one and thus push it off). I find learning and using the keyboard shortcuts is really helpful so I can be flexible with what needs to be done.
Quit Things. Delete the local database file. Launch Things again. It’ll create an empty database.
You’ll find the local db path here: https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803600/
If you have a cloud account, be sure to create one local to-do before logging back in. That way you’ll be presented with the merge options and you can choose to overwrite the cloud with your new database.
I don’t understand how you’re getting so many. Check out the screenshots Cultured Code gave here for the Small Widget. https://culturedcode.com/things/blog/
Theirs only shows 3 tasks with 9 being today.
If you have an item selected and you hit CMD+T it moves it to tomorrow.
Have you seen this?
https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2785159/
You can see all the built-in keyboard shortcuts, or if you are so inclined use a program like a keyboard maestro to create the keyboard shortcuts that suit you the most. I have created about a dozen that I like but mostly happy with the standard.
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By the way CMD+S would be (Schedule) which is why the S. There's no
save function for this app.
I use Things 3. Excellent UI, available on iOS/MacOS/iPadOS, no windows or web interface and have to pay for each platform (9.99/49.99/19.99) so a bit expensive. Reccomend you give it a look before you decide.
Things 3. It's been my go-to GTD application once I switched back over to iOS/Mac.
How can it benefit you personally?
- New Area (Dailies) - New Projects (Morning Routine, Work out!, Read, Drink, Night) > individual to-dos in each project.
- You can schedule each project and its tasks to repeat on a daily basis.
- You can set multiple reminders at set times, like your water project.
- You can set notes to describe the project you're doing (e.g. "Don't forget to complete it!", "Go the GYM and give everything!").
The cons?
- It's expensive (for some). $9.99 for iPhone + AW, $49.99 for MacOS. Additional $19.99 if you want an iPad version.
- Apple only. No Android or Windows versions.
- The learning curve seems difficult. But once you're used to the gesture navigation on iPhone, it's quick, easy, and fluid to create and manage tasks.
- The initial setup for your Projects and Tasks will take a while to configure. But once they're set up, you'll never have to touch them again.
Personally for me, I have anywhere from 20 to 40 repeating tasks that are scheduled for different days and times.
Some are set to repeat daily (e.g. daily house cleaning, Inbox Zero), weekly (laundry), monthly (e.g. clean out pantry and fridge, wipe down walls, vacuum fans), and quarterly (e.g. rotate mattress, wash curtains).
Things 3 has made it extremely easy to manage without missing a beat, and I only had to set up the tasks once. I highly recommend it for anyone invested in the Apple ecosystem.
Hey mate, thanks for the roast 😉
I see you actually looked at the about page and how to use the site, one of very few!
Glad you like the design, I got inspired by Cultured Code website, I am fan of their design and software so took clues from them.
I did not use bootstrap to make Roast My Site, I used Tailwind by Adam Wathan! Found it a huge pleasure to use, and once you get used to the utility first css you can never go back. I even use that approach now on some legacy bootstrap projects and love it.
Backend is built entirely on Laravel, running PHP7.2 and MariaDB. Using Redis for caching, and in progress of implementing Varnish to make the site even faster. CloudFlare CDN for static files, which is app.css only at the moment. I wanted to stay away from using JS for as long as I can, and built the site entirely without it, except for Google Analytics.
If you login you will see the dropdowns for account links and how I managed to do it with CSS only using Tailwind, as well as when you are posting a roast you will see a success alert at the top that hides after 5 seconds using CSS only 😂
You can get a trial version for Mac here. Add download to the end of the url to start the download immediately. They have other great stuff on their site as well so make sure to check that out.
If you've an iPhone, getting the Things iPhone app is a no-brainer. I had doubt about it but I love it so much now.
It'll be at least a year until they fix it.
Things for Mac, iPad, & iPhone cost a combined $80, which is a lot.
But $80/365 comes out to $.21/day for a beautiful and functional to do list manager out NOW.
I confirm what knubie just said. It is a Things by Culture Code. Fantastic productivity tool and I use it on mac OS and iOS. Love it!
https://culturedcode.com/things/
Thanks for reading / looking at the pictures :)
I use Things: https://culturedcode.com/things/
It's for mac and iOS only. I believe the mac version has a free trial. It's basically a to-do list, but you can organize by projects and areas, define deadlines and set reminders, among probably many other features I'm forgetting right now. I use it in conjunction with the Apple calendar app to organize appointments.
You need to install Quick Entry With Autofill from the Cultured Code website. That gives you a second Quick Entry function that will capture links to Emails, URLs and files.
If you want to change the way the helper titles the links, you can open the package contents and edit the enclosed AppleScript.
Same concept for me as well here. There are so many good tools! I heard the sermon from an Omni Prophet, but I didn't see the light. I needed something that was simple and fast. Quick to enter, quick to complete and had mobile functionality. I settled on Things. I'm a Mac/ios user so this pairing works well. It has some advantages over Google tasks but if you're Android/Windows or want something web based then bingo that's another good option.
But the moral of the story is, once you find a tool that works for you, let it work for you! Make using it part of your routine.
I've been using the Mac/iOS app Things for years now and it's made a huge difference for me.
Besides all the great ways to organize your to-dos with projects (eg besides just tasks I have lists for bills to pay, stuff I've lent out to people, packages that I'm waiting on) and keywords and all that stuff, I like the fact that it has both an iOS version and an OS X version that sync up together, so any updates I make on my phone automatically sync with my laptop, and vice versa.
I use OmniFocus for managing my todo's, planning, etc. In my opinion, it's the best solution currently available (I've tried a lot). (Things is the runner up, since it's a little bit cheaper)
For taking simple notes, I use SimpleNote. I never really liked Evernote, tbh, I prefer the simplicity of SimpleNote.
Edit: None of these are available on Windows, though.
Those are project headers. See the link to see how they work.
I find them great for large projects that has many different days or steps.
They are not very open about that, but from their website (https://culturedcode.com/things/cloud/) one can conclude, that it's not encrypted, just that the connections to their servers is over SSL.
True. I get it. I think it's more of a screen real estate decision. You can still filter by them in iPhone and iPad https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803581/
In practice, I mostly rely on my Calendar when I am out and about. I use Things 3 in the Phone to capture stuff or to refer to my "Errands" or "Walking" tag. I can refer to my "Critical Now" Area if needed, but I usually don't have too since the time to work on those is blocked in my calendar.
No, I just type "Quick" and all my tasks tagged with the "Quick" label pop up organized by Area and Project. You can do it with any tag, I also use it for "Comms" or "Errands" or "This Week".
The feature is called quick find. Here is an example: https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803584/
In the web it says it requires watchOS 5 or later but I haven’t seen anything about hardware requirements. So I’d say if series 3 can run watchOS 5, it should work.
To me, Things is the best one I’ve tried. It is not cheap but at least is a one-time payment. Really cool and useful, in Mac, iOS, and the Apple Watch app is really cool too (and it offers complications)
You don’t.
They developed their own sync mechanism (Link), because alternative solutions did not provide the desired objectives.
See e.g. Things Cloud “Fractus” on CulturedCode‘s Blog
You can create a repeating project in Things and create you todo under it. Each day when you complete the project you can review your history in the log book and see which one to-dos you have done and not done for that iteration/day of the project.
/u/jessegrosjean
Maybe give examples of use cases for the app?
If you're a marketer, you can do x, y z, better than other apps
If you're an author, you can do x, y z, better than other apps
If you're an event planner, you can do you can do x, y z, better than other apps
For general productivity, you can do x, y z, better than other apps
But I see that a lot of what's different is that it's just more fluid and probably satisfying to use—and that is worth $30 to people who outline a lot. I think your video shows that off very well, but you also have to figure out how to word it. Maybe steal copywriting language from Cultured Code and their user testimonials: https://culturedcode.com/things/
Do you mean something "Do the laundry in 1 hour"? I'm not aware of that functionality in Things, but you can use natural language (scroll down to "Type ahead") in the date picker to save yourself a few clicks.
Things is indispensable. Absolutely brilliant for keeping on top of your to-do list and getting stuff done. Managing tasks efficiently enables me to make better use of my limited free time and spend more time doing what I want to do rather than what I have to do.
You could maybe use the “update project” function in the Things 3 URL scheme.
Use a JavaScript bookmarklet to open the Things 3 URL to include whatever Google doc you want to include.
This is officially a bug then.
https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803581/
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> This is useful because to-dos automatically inherit the tag from the list they’re in, which means you don’t have to tag each to-do manually.
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>Note that inherited tags will not show directly on the to-dos themselves, but when you filter other lists – such as Today – to-dos from that project or area will be included in the filtered results.
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https://culturedcode.com/things/
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It's based on "GTD."
Getting Things Done.
Google the book.
Does wonders for taking back control.
You can access the Thing's content via apple scripts. Whether or not you can manage to output that script into a workflow and make it helpful with another app is another problem entirely. I would do it manually first... Make sure it's worth the effort. This blog has some info about automating Things via apple scripts.
Your workflow though... I don't know if it's a good plan. I use Things with GTD methodology and as a result I have context via tags and projects. I also block schedule, but I do this with the calendar app, and simply block time off for a specific context. You can even add the "location" for your blocked off calendar event as a Things URL with the filters already setup.
things:///show?id=today&filter=area,project,tag,another_tag
Here is the link builder, but you don't need it, overtime you'll be able to type it out manually.
Sorry if this isn't helpful, but when I've tried to add new apps to my system, it usually backfired, so I thought I'd mention this. If you do create a workflow with sorted and it works well for you then please post the details. I'm always looking for better workflows.
It looks like there is no way to set such a workflow, unfortunately. Cultured Code seems to follow a strict policy of "no way out" for tasks info.
I know that Things3 has limited AppleScript support, but most of their documentation is about getting things into Things, not out. I’d try https://culturedcode.com/things/download/Things3AppleScriptGuide.pdf to see what options exist.
Craft and Things work great together for ongoing work. Drop the URL of the project of each in the other and you can jump back and forth no problem. But, you’re talking about mapping it out, from what I read. Mindnode and Drafts both support mapping out projects there and importing them easily into Things. https://culturedcode.com/things/blog/2018/02/hey-things/
Just FYI, this sub is not an official Cultured Code one, you could try requesting it through their official site
Having said that, smart folders exist across several apps already. I think Todoist calls them filters and Omnifocus calls them perspectives. So if this is a major painpoint for your workflow, there are alternatives out there.
I love Things 3, but the nature of my job is really fast-paced and benefits from using a Kanban view, so I am using Todoist now.
I believe you can get saved search by using the Things URL schema. Made easy with this automated web-based generator:
https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803573/
I want headers in the inbox, Today, and Anytime views, as well as in areas. Headers everywhere! Headers all the Things!
Most apps have an internal link structure that looks something like `[app]://x-callback-url/[action]?id=[id]` which allows you create links from one app to another. Things has a little builder online for this (https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803573/), but a lot of us link to a note app from a Things project this way as well.
Just tested successfully and I'd say it's a legit workaround!
More detail for the next person looking for this:
- Go to link builder: https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803573/
- Add task name and check "completed"
- Add project ID (the long character string after
id=). Get this from 'share > copy link'. - Add header name, if applicable
- Add completion date in this format (just replace the #'s): ####-##-##T14:30:00Z+01:00
- Click the auto-generated link at top to add the task to your project
Notes & tags can be added to the task after it's added to the project, or you can add those to the link builder.
I don't know of a better workaround.
If you want to preserve the original completion date you set it using the URL Scheme feature; I do this sometimes when I completed an item the day before but failed to actually check it off in Things.
You have to install Things helper on MacOS to enable this feature.
https://culturedcode.com/things/mac/help/things-sandboxing-helper-things3/
After you install you can configure by enetering into Things prefrences on MacOS
Based on the discussion, it sounds like Things is not the right tool for what you want to do. It might be worth noting that you could sort of simulate the kind of more depth than what Things will afford by linking from tasks into other "nested" projects. From your example,
> Dev (Area) > SomeWebApp (Project) > Feature (Task) > Sub-Feature-Tasks (Sub-Task)
Perhaps those "Sub-Features-Tasks" could be their own items, but you could link to them from the "Feature" using either the "Feature" item's note field or that item's checklist. You might use tags to zoom in on the kind of item that you want to look at, e.g. only "top-level" Feature items.
Things is definitely an "opinionated" product and they don't seem to be interested in it becoming all things to all people. I respect that and, coming from a task manager that had TONS of features, but didn't do anything particularly well, I appreciate their decision.
When I had this issue, Cultured Code referred me to this web page.
https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/4481378/
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The advanced troubleshooting steps resolved the issue for me.
Apple Reminders or Things 3 would be great.
Reminders would be the best recommended as it's free but quite powerful. Things 3 is worth checking out however, just pure beauty: https://culturedcode.com/things/.
At best, you can snooze notifications - https://culturedcode.com/things/blog/2018/09/things-3-7-brings-siri-shortcuts-and-more/ Or for tasks that you must have persistent notifications you could try an app such as Due. But there’s not a great solution for this in Things.
Happy to help! No need to use the script, it's totally fine to keep things simple :)
I got the idea to use a "Next" tag from this Omnifocus video . Peter also has a great Things 3 course.
Something really nice about Things is how simple, yet powerful it is. There is a really neat Apple Script guide on their website. It's a bit more advanced, but has helped me with my workflow.
You can’t ‘pin’ a tag or search, if that’s what you’re asking.
But once you’ve created ‘Anton’ as a tag and added it to various tasks, you can do the following: - Mac or iPad (with external keyboard) just start typing ‘Anton’ and the search will appear - select the tag and all associated tasks will appear - iOS drag/ pull down on the screen and you can do the same
I solve this with Keyboard Maestro. I have a macro that checks if the active application is Firefox, and if it is, it quickly copies the url and title, then runs an AppleScript to trigger the quick entry form. This way, I only have one keyboard shortcut for Quick Entry with Autofill! Here are the KM Macros if anyone is interested.
I also do similar things for a few applications that either don't work with autofill or don't fill with what I want. And Things is pretty scriptable with AppleScript, so there's lots of other cool things you can do with that!
I do agree i also love Things, it's a very polished good working app.
Look at this page to learn how to retrieve the reminders, after that it's easy to let siri read it :)
Things is a GTD app. The Anytime list is your GTD Next Actions list. In fact, in Things 1 and 2, that list was called "Next".
The GTD Next Actions list is for actionable items that are available to do should you choose to do it. In other words (according to the culturedcode website), it is for "to-dos you could start at any time". That's why it's called "Anytime". If it were for items to do within the next weekish, it would be called "Next-weekish". 😀
Here's another great guide someone created for Things 3 which defines it that way.
Let's apply some use-cases to your way of using it. If I'm waiting in line somewhere or in the waiting room at the doctor's office, and I want to pull up a list of items that can be done on my phone in 5 minutes or less. I still have to:
- Go to the Anytime list tap on the arrow
- Tap "Filter by Tag"
- Tap the tags "Phone" and "5min"
- Tap "Done".
I want Things to have a way to save that view, so I wouldn't have to re-execute those steps every time I'm in that situation.
What if I'm doing a review, and I want to see all items that upcoming, but not repeating?
If I'm at the local mall, and want to pull up a list of items to do while I'm at the mall? I again have to execute those steps to filter by tag.
I explained sort by due date in my original post: "to see what is most urgent".
I'm not sure I understand your use of a "waiting" tag. An example of defer until time item would be something I need to do in the latter half of the day. Something to do after dinner? I don't want that stuff on my Today list in the morning.
I use a very similar system for delegation, including the "Delegated" > "Sam" nested tag structure. The only difference is that I move delegated tasks to Someday and set a deadline against it. The advantage I find with this approach is:
- It ensures all tasks in the Anytime view are actionable by me
- Things automatically moves a delegated task out of Someday and into Today when the deadline is due or past-due, which makes sense as the task is now actionable by me (e.g., I need to follow up the person who I delegated to).
- When I'm looking at an Area or Project, Someday tasks still appear but are clearly marked (by dotted lines), providing a visual indicator that the task is delegated
To help manage this, I've also created a TouchBar system on my MacBook Pro using BetterTouchTool and the Things URL Scheme. Because Things URLs to go to a specific area or project, and/or apply one or more tags at once, it's more flexible than the search option - for example, I can create a URL for the scenario "Tasks delegated to Sam or Kevin for project X that is currently in the design phase". I create buttons on the toolbar either as:
- A replacement for Perspectives in OmniFocus (though not as powerful) for some specific and slightly complex scenarios that I need to filter on regularly
- As a way to easily drill through staff who I have delegated to
- As a way to easily drill through different projects
I spent way to look making this system look pretty (and functional) and now I'm usually no more than 2 taps away from pulling up a specific view, and I can easily tap through different views (like cycling through filters for each staff member I've delegated to with one tap).
If I understand correctly, you are asking about URLs that links to Things app?
The URL scheme builder + doc is the best place to find info.
Your post has a lot of typos and the second half doesn’t seem to be describing the same problem as the first...
This is the last one I still have. It’s used for my quarterly review prep. It’s basically a JSON that calls a url scheme. Cultured Code goes into detail here.
Things by Cultured Code can also sync locally (but it also uses a server as a third-party) https://culturedcode.com/things/blog/
They had a really good blog post on some of the challenges of syncing and how they resolved them.
Unfortunately that wasn't a Black Friday sale. Here's why the sale happened:
> We then discounted it a second time from October 15–31, 2019, to help our remaining Things 2 users upgrade at a lower cost.
Source: https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803552/
I don't know if Omnifocus supports this, but in Things, reminders from a specific list will appear in your inbox with the option to import them.
The result is that all I have to do is tell Siri "Remind me to do this", and it will appear in the Things inbox with an Import button next to it.
Not the strikethrough, not on iOS.
It’s in the release notes for the current version.
“Canceled to-dos now show strikethrough, as on the Mac.”
The only one I could find was from their website - Things 3
It doesn’t look like they are accepting beta testers at the moment, but there’s a link to their Twitter for updates. I’ll keep on checking for you!
Just reverse engineer the Things 3 URL Scheme.
https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803573/
I’m busy doing this for you now anyway, but start familiarizing yourself with it.
EDIT:
Ok done. This is just an example.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7175d1df2fa04c17bc9180f4a0552b7a
There’s a SUPER nice Things Parser Action for Drafts, and I personally use that for things like this. I’m a photographer too, and I also use things for client lists exactly like this. I’m doing it via drafts though.
https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803573/
This was shared with me in a different weekly thread, which addresses how to edit or add completed items to the Logbook with a date in the past (if you mark a task done in the app, it will log today's date as completion date). It took a few tries but I got it to work... you have to input the date/time in a very specific format AND mark it as complete, in order for it to work. This applies whether you are adding a new completed task or editing one you already logged as done.
https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2967034/#things-on-windows-android-the-web - in a word, no, and they've been pretty consistent about saying they will not be doing it.
From the keyboard via shortcuts, absolutely - but it sounds like not quite in the same way you mean. I do pretty much all my task management in things from the keyboard on my iPad/Mac.
This doesn’t answer your exact question, but I’ve found using Siri to be pretty straightforward & I specifically reach for that option when I want to add a reminder from my phone.
There’s a description of how to create a conversational shortcut. See section Conversational Shortcuts on this page https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2955145/
It mentions creating checklists. Also notice the notes referring to entering checklists. Thus, checklists are not supported out of the box, but you should be able to build what you want.
Never got to use Things, tried it once, but it did not stick, I must say version 3 is impressive, a beautiful to-do list on steroids. I will actually consider buying it.
Here is the link for others who might read this:
https://culturedcode.com/things/whats-new/
About the other apps, absolutely Macs come with a lot of quality software for free, I'm a fan for sure.
As you probably saw I‘m more into getting information out of Things 3. Creation is actually easier.
Intro here Hey, things
Details here Things URL Scheme
Be aware that Things 3 actions on iPhone and iPad are different.
Yes- Apple products only though. Things 3The iOS app is around $10 (and works with Apple Watch). Mac is steeper at $40-50. Full disclosure, I’ve only bought the iOS b/c it’s the constant in my work life when I’m switching between 3 different computer operating systems through the day. If I was using Mac for work even 50% of the time I’d buy the Mac app too. It’s that helpful.
Not trying to shill apple products, but holy cow, the Apple Watch is the most useful tool I’ve invested in. I held off for years thinking it was frivolous and I’m kicking myself for doing so. I got the lowest priced one and it has plenty of features to be a reliable tool. Being able to set as many alarms with (tone and vibration)as I want has helped keep me on track with meds, routines, etc. Having my to-dos and calendar on my wrist is great for quick reminders. I would forget to look at my phone in my pocket and lose track of time/plans for my day. Now I can get the cues I need to get it together.
Things integration isn't something I had thought about yet, but I've added it to the list 🙂. I'll have to read up on it more thoroughly, but I briefly scanned the their docs and it seems like it should be straightforward to add.
Things app with the "Getting Things Done" methodology.
The idea is that whenever anything that you need to do pops into your head, you immediately write it down into the Things app inbox. Then every so often you go through that inbox and categorise it/set deadlines/tag it/etc.
For me I used to always forget to do things, or put off doing things that I didn't fancy doing. With this I know exactly what I need to do and when, and I no longer try to keep a massive to-do list solely in my head.
Here’s a possible workaround. Use the URL shortcut builder to recreate your original task and assign it a completed date. They just delete your original task.
https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803573/
Maybe this would work in a pinch?
Refer to the bottom of this page. I think the "hold command to select multiple tags" is for filtering tags and not assigning tags. What I do is I assign each tag is own key (via the command+control+t window) so I can use control to quickly assign the tags. Eg: I have 2 tags: "Chores" and "Morning", they are assigned to the keys "C" and M." When I want to assign both tags to a task, I hold control and hit the C key then M.
No, but you should create a Things 3 alternative. This is my primary organizational tool at work on OSX, but I wish it had a Linux/open source client.
Only thing I could think of that might be sorta close is orgmode.