If Things 3 added location reminders and the ability to attach photos to tasks, it would be absolutely perfect. It’s still the only task manager I use. I love it.
Every Things 3 video I've seen never mentions hovering the mouse over the left-hand-side of the checkbox to bring up the date picker. Am I the only one who finds this useful? 🙂
I didn't even know that was there! Literally just10 min ago I was sitting here wishing they made it quicker to select the date, allowing us to make the date picker permanently visible. You just helped me out so much!!!! 😄
Thank you so much for sharing your workflow. I've tried using it in the past, but I made tagging and dates too complicated. I went back to writing down on a list because it was simple. This is the perfect approach!
Awesome video! Question when you're selecting the emoji, is that a 3rd party tool you use for a shortcut to search emoji vs the ctl+cmd+space command? Thanks!
Great video! I’m brand new to this app and can’t wait to get it up and running. I really appreciate the walk-through of the settings and options. Thanks so much!
Thanks- useful info here. As a busy music teacher, I’ve been considering something like this to keep gigs, job responsibilities and life things in order. Might take the plunge and get this app.
Agreed, the time thing is super weird as it seems fairly well laid out otherwise. Sadly a deal breaker for me (I came to watch this to see whether to buy it). Also it has the Home title under Today, but not Work or RU-vid title, just the projects under them. Again, just a little strange. for one of the paid apps.
I want to love Things SO MUCH! How do you get around the lack of start dates? If you use deadlines as start dates, then how do you track true deadlines? My "dream app" is if THINGS3 and Remember The Milk had a baby. As old as RTM is, it still have innovations no other task manager has duplicated. Thanks for the video.
at minute 13:00 you talk about Things not sorting by time set, and you call it due time but it's actually called reminder time, maybe that's why it doesn't automatically sorts by alarm time set. Because it isn't time that it's due, it's the time at which the app reminds you to do this task *somewhere today*
Why didn't you want to allow access to calendar? I would think it's easier to use if you can sync with your apple calendar? I would want that. Do you entirely just enter calendar items in Things? I need an integration. What would you recommend?
I saw two years ago that your favorite task manager was Things 3 and then one year ago Todoist and now it's back to Things 3. I'm wondering what wasn't ok with Todoist to came back to Things 3? I know Things 3 is the sexiest task manager software with a lot of convention over configuration but except that?
Haha good call! Yeah, I keep coming back to Things because it's just the right mix of style and substance for my needs. Todoist is my second favorite, though.
Things 3 is one of those apps I really wish I could justify spending money on. But I’d need it on iPhone, iPad and Mac and 80€ is simply unreasonable when compared to the competition. Especially considering there’s no cross-platform functionality. Still an amazing looking program that I feel in love with during the trial. For now I’m sticking with regular apple reminders though. At least the iOS 16 update made it simple to assign tasks to a time for the day.
I thought the same way and I was a paying a subscription for another app. After two years of paying the subscription I was near what it would have cost for Things. Things does become cheaper as time goes on than the other apps cost.
When should I use projects and when do I need to use areas. Honestly I’m using projects just because areas has no headlines, hence the view in todays views won’t be split and organised. As well as the area itself won’t be organised. I have things such as lets say: Work routines that are repeated always. should this be an area or a project. currently it's a project that is under Area "Work" Lets say also my investments with reminders of due dates and end of contracts are under project "Investments" under area personal. should it have it's own area better?
I’m searching for the perfect I-Phone Compatible Project Management/Tasks Management Software focused on repetitive events. It would offer a template option(s) with automated sequential sub tasks to “X” number of days/hours before and/or after. A task example “Post Agenda” 3 days before meeting. Is there anything out there?
I was curious to understand why everybody's raving about Things 3, but after watching the video I'm seriously underwhelmed. Not because of three video (it's well done) but because I don't see anything special in what the app does. At the same time you make a couple of side remarks on things that could be better, like that it doesn't sort by time or the fixed govt size that immediately makes me wonder: why do users accept that? It must be some kind of trade off, but I don't see what people are getting in that trade.
Here are a few apps that I think are great value that are single time payments or you pay for significant updates: procreate, lumafusion or Affinity designer, Things. I think Drafts has a reasonable subscription model for advanced features. The only reason I have not yet subscribed to Drafts is I would like to see more content or tutorials on how to take advantage of the advanced features. I measure all other apps by these examples and I am also impressed with Readwise so I may actually decide to subscribe to this app. Love Fantastical but hate the price - they should not be charging so much when procreate puts out more advanced software and charges a lot less. Sorry smaller developers but these examples frame what I see as a reasonable price.
Work around for time showing up instead of just the little bell icon- I put the time in the description ( Example get dog food at 3 pm) and then set the reminder.
I really love the idea of Things 3 but there is a steep price entry. I am trying to handle all of this on Notion, but I struggle to be that seamless to be honest
I'm feeling the same. It looks like a neat app, but it's definitely not worth £45 for basically a glorified to-do list. There are a lot of free apps which have the same features. Things 3 does it the cleanest and simplest but I don't think that makes it worth that much money.
People should stop watching the moment you say: "Honestly I don't use ANYTIME or SOMEDAY at all." I hate to sound like the average jerk on YT but I do. If you claim that, you don't use GTD (now that could become a heated argument! :) ...). It is super important to have videos like this to help people.getting a good start with a still complex method but I feel you shoot them in the knees before they even leave the block. So who those you read this: I don't claim he is wrong and I am right I just hope you find other sources that explain the whole thing. If you don't dig deeper it just stays another todo list.
Too much clicking around for me, and having to remember keyboard shortcuts for everything. I prefer the natural language in Todoist myself, but Things is definitely the prettiest.
Wow talk about micro management yuk lol I just keep it simple and I get along just fine I think to much micro management is as exiting as watching cars rust (just my opinion certainly)
