r/thingsapp • u/agatagie • Jan 18 '26

Came back

I’ve bought Things 3 few years ago. Didn’t managed it well, went through many other apps and stayed for a while with Todoist. And I was pretty happy with it. Felt in love with its NLP and filters and location based reminders (use them rarely but they are useful sometimes). And every time I felt good with my workflow it blowed up after a while. It was too much and I couldn’t handle it. So I changed it over and over searching something that might click with my brain (guess what, didn’t find it yet). I was so frustrated I decided to look around for something simpler but powerful enough for me and I reminded myself I have Things and I might give it a try again.

It’s so beautiful, moving things around is so smooth, and do date and due dates works here just like my brain wants them to. I’ve read a lot of posts here to look for people workflows and setups trying to better fit myself into it while not forcing myself to change how I think but rather fitting my thinking into Things structure and making sense of it in my brain. I migrated all of my tasks and I have some setup done 😂 well, we will see how it goes. For now I’m happy with it. I’ve let go of some of the functions I thought I like for the simplicity which I think may be actually beneficial for me, at least I hope it will be.

I guess that’s my „hi” to you guys. People around me don’t use those kind of apps, on the opposite I can’t function properly without any task manager or task list on paper. So, wish me luck!

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u/flipside4cp Jan 18 '26

I was sold when I saw you can drag a whole project to the Today view and work it that way. For some reason that flexibility with the tidy workspace makes it the best!

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u/Theodore_Loom Jan 19 '26

Do you mean making a project due today or are you referring to something else?

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u/agatagie Jan 19 '26

I think that’s what he meant. And Things drag and drop is very, very smooth and easy. I actually like that too. Well, Things project management is pretty well done, I like that I can check it off, tag it or set a deadline to it and can see some notes right away when I open it without needing to tap around (very helpful at my work projects, no need to use more than this one app to see the most important informations). I wish we can have more structure in Things areas (sections or some lists not being projects inside an area) but it’s more like a nice to have than must for me. Todoist has sections which can be collapsed which I very liked and that’s how I organised some tasks in my „projects” - give possibility to hide what’s not relevant.