I built templates for my projects in things. They are all tagged, and then I just duplicate the project each time for a new instance. I am the Tour Manager for a recording artist. We have approx 20 shows per month. Each show is a project. I duplicate the project, assign the date am ready to go.
I achieve the equivalent of perspectives by doing quick searches for tags. As another user said, you can also build searches in shortcuts that would also be the equivalent of perspectives.
Yes, that’s right. I know I can’t work on this thing for the next couple of days, so I just schedule it in Things for a couple of days down the line, and it vanishes from my inbox until then. I haven’t really used the deadline yet, but I think your mapping is correct.
My two cents:
I started using Things because of how nice it looked, and, I must say, the user interface is lovely.
In regards to features, if I have the ability to overcomplicate my todo list or fiddle with it, I don’t end up getting work done. So the lack of features (although I completely see the appeal) isn’t a huge downside for me. Although, I agree that the app does seem to be falling behind the bleeding edge of things a bit.
I’d really like to see natural language processing, particularly.
To touch on why I use Things over Todoist, I’ve found that Todoist is a bit “flaky” as an app, particularly on the Mac, because it’s Electron. I don’t have anything against Electron, but there are just some strange behaviours particular to the app that I find odd on every platform. I can’t quite place it… but I do feel it.
As far as I know, start date in Things and defer dates in OmniFocus are exactly the same. Different labels, same feature.
Maybe the only difference, and it’s really just a difference in presentation… once a task “when” day is past in Things, it stays in the today view, and you need to keep moving it, or select the task and “clear” the when date.
In the forecast in OF, once you are past the date the task became available, it no longer shows up in the forecast.
My favourite feature are the widgets.
I have one set to deadlines on my home screen so I can see all my deadlines listed by date and know what’s coming up at a glance. This gives me a great overview.
I also like being able to see what’s in my calendar. Todoist failed on that front.
Finally, being able to add a new task with context is a great help. All my reference data goes into Devonthink and Things grabs the item link so I can quickly get to it.
I would love if Things made a web app that worked as well as Todoist. Just imagine lol.
there is a Thing 4 discussion, just a wish list I guess.
My todoist pro subscription just expired and I was hoping that there is a BF / Cyber Monday discount for renewal but does not seem like there is one coming. I already previously bought Things 3 (Mac, iPad OS, etc).
Just wondering whether people still prefer Things 3 over Tododist (putting cost aside)
I have used every single task management / todo app, more than once in my quest for the perfect middle ground between simple task management and just a little bit of more advanced feature set.
Things I love
Things I don’t love
Yes please!!!
Best would be seven columns to show one week.
The large iPad widget gives me hopes that diverging like this might be in our future.
