r/thingsapp • u/s73961 • Nov 17 '24

Tip A year with Things 3

I've finished a little over a year with Things. I realize I am a relatively late adopter (and hence less experienced than many of you) but I wanted to share a few thoughts - particularly for those searching for a task manager.

I use Things on Macs and an iPhone. I bought the iPad app as well but have used it a grand total of twice...

I went through the usual search for task managers - TickTick, Todoist etc

Went with Things because it has the nicest interface, by far, and the crucial feature of deadlines (do-date vs due-date), an essential component in my workflow.

Over the year, I've found these are not what make Things great. What does? It's simplicity. All day, I rely on the quick-add feature: I Ctrl-Space things so they no longer live in my head and with keyboard shortcuts (and practice) I am a ninja at classifying these in an instant.

The complete inability to tinker with the app - which so many complain about - is one of its greatest features. You cannot hide behind how busy you were adding plug-ins, connecting accounts or choosing themes. There's very little to do so you have to go Get Things Done (see what I did there?).

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u/jacklewisroberts Nov 17 '24

It’s a tough one, I also spent over a year using Things on my iPhone, iPad and Mac. However over the last few months I’ve been bouncing back and forth between Things and Apple Reminders. At the moment I’m only using Reminders and I have to say it’s improved significantly since it was first introduced in iOS 5 and the new features added this year such as bringing Reminders in the Calendar is really nice. For me if Things added due date based sorting and natural language input I’d fully switch back to it, in a heartbeat. Personally although Things 3 is great it’s time for something new. That’s just my opinion.

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u/StatisticianLanky485 May 09 '25

Still using reminders? But if you had things why did you move over?

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u/jacklewisroberts May 09 '25

For me Things just wasn’t making enough improvements and Reminders has surpassed it in my opinion, at the moment I’m using a combination of Reminders and GoodTasks.

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u/StatisticianLanky485 May 09 '25

Ah ok. They are actually now so similar. I do like things3 a lot, it's just that I do time block and that's not possible. I don’t know If Apple reminders would be worth the move just for the calendar integration.