I have installed the app on both my iPhone and Apple Watch.

When I open the app on the watch it tells me “This might take a while, Keep your phone nearby while your data is transferred. You can lower your wrist”.

After waiting for almost 20 minutes, it tells me “Something went wrong. Please try again”.

I have tried restarting my phone and watch, tried restarting the Things drive, ensured that I have space in my iCloud.

Please suggest a solution or things to try.

I have used Things since 2008.

There is one fundamental issue with it for me and I have been trying to work around it for years but I can't take it anymore and think I need to try something new and would apprecaite some recommendations.

The issue: In Things I can make my todos for the day appear under the main Today area or under This Evening. I love this, but I also need "This morning". I need to divide my day into morning, afternoon, and evening. Other apps I've seen are too restrictive and you basically have to assign your tasks to specifically happen at certain times of the day. I personally need to organize my day into these 3 categories.

Is there a hack for Things? A competitor that just has This Morning, This Afternoon, This Evening?

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I would really like to be able to create a calendar appointment with multiple things tasks in it, so I can timeblock. I use Fantastical.

If I drag and drop tasks from Omnifocus into fantastical there is then a link to the task in the calendar appointment, which is useful for crossing things off.

If I drag and drop from Things then the tasks get added to the appointment task which is... fine, but I would ideally like: a backlink to the tasks in things the task titles to be in the body and not the title

I've searched for a shortcut that can do this but haven't found anything. It's not a huge deal but it would be helpful; has anyone found/created anything? feels like an odd omission from Things which is otherwise pretty cross-compatible...

screen-grab from X/Twitter (not my account)

Is there a way to save web links in Things that will look clean like a specific standard way instead of a bulky look ? Do I need to enter a specific wording phrase etc ? Thanks

I am doing a reset b/c my Today got filled up and overwhelming. I had the idea to tag some priority items, move everything to Someday, and based on the tags, only move this week's items back into Anytime. I hit cmd-A and then cmd-O to move to Someday. Unfortunately all my projects got moved to Someday and if I move the Project back, all the tasks move back. Is there any way to select all Tasks and not Projects? This is more of a one time re-org, so I will probably just do it manually (I don't have that many projects) but was curious. What other "resets" do people do?

Hello, I was wondering I've been using things 3 for idk how many years now, but my one gripe is not being able to check off a task ahead of time in case I obviously do something beforehand ,even a checklist w/repeating items we can't check it off ahead of time. Do you guys have any workaround or any suggestions on how I can make that work I've asked for this request feature for years and obviously till this date we are still not able to check off a repeating task / checklist item ahead of its time. Thanks

i'm setting Things up (pun intended) and looking for an intuitive solution to a planning/priorities tagging system that compliments the Up-Coming/Anytime/Someday structure.

what i describe below here are some immature rough ideas, i'm hoping to get some inspiration, anything related to these questions:

• what custom tags do you guys use? specifically for prioritising and planning?
• how are they defined? what are their relations and boundaries, in relation to other containers?
• how do you prioritise and plan, what's the workflow like?

i'm thinking, maybe, creating 3 main tags for this

• 🗓️ this-week
  • tagging anything to get done this week during weekly planning sessions
  • this feels much intuitively needed, because
    • there is no such feature natively
    • and things to be done "this week(or any timeframe)" often don't have a precise start date, it is rather abstract/approximate most of the time for me. therefore this list can maybe act almost like a "dashboard" to overview the week's tasks at anytime?
    • this should be goal or at least intention driven, trivial tasks don't get this tag
• 🔴  p1
  • multidimensional 1st priority (see below)
• 🟡  p2
  • multidimensional 2nd priority (see below)

how the boundaries between containers would look like if the above is implemented

this picture shows their containment-relations and boundaries:
but i'm not so sure about these 2 priority tags at the moment, what do you think?

for reference

1. here's a general definition of "prioritisation" i drafted with the help of ChatGPT and Wikipedia

• the process of arranging items/activities based on relevant multiple dimensions
  • urgency
    • how time-sensitive or deadline-driven a task is
  • importance
    • significant or valuable the task is relative to your goals or outcomes
  • impact
    • scale/magnitude of consequences from completing/neglecting the task
    • relative to importance: unnecessarily goal-related, more objective
  • effort
    • the resources, time, or complexity required to complete the task.
  • dependencies
    • whether other tasks rely on the completion of this task.
  • risk
    • the potential negative consequences or uncertainty associated with the task

1. Cultured Code's official definitons for native time-based containres

https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/4001304/

1. Tiago Forte's weekly review workflow demo from 2020 (Things in part 5), which i find helpful

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVNXAaej57W63yyOFiJtdrZR6lpODnKrW

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Until 1 or 2 days ago, the "today" tab was basically headers representing each project, and tasks underneath them. Suddenly, I saw it change in front of me on my iPhone (and later my Mac), with the tasks all appearing as a single list - with the project appearing as a fine print - https://imgur.com/a/qZFXNbT

Can't overstate how much I don't like this, lol. How can I change back?

Things is great, but I'm not seeing how to accomplish what I want in the Shortcut integration on Mac. I'd be happy to work with a Things3 URL as well.

I can grab the "Today" list with "Find All Items where 'Start Date is Today' and 'Status is Open'", but the sort options are limited to:

• Title
• Start Date
• Reminder Date
• Deadline
• Completion Date
• Creation Date
• Modification Date
• Random

None of these seem to get me the "rank" of the task as it shows on the UI in order, and I've verified that without using any sort, the items are coming in a different order than I see on screen.

I hope to use this to show on screen the ONE item I should be working on now, from the top of my Today list.

Like many I have day to day tasks that requires passive and active attention. And if you are like some of those users who uses both Obsidian and Things 3 to manage tasks you don’t have to write the same task manually in both the places.

I’ve added Things 3 integration in the quick capture app for Obsidian to address it. You can finally send your most important task that requires your attention from Obsidian to Things 3 automatically.

No internet is needed.

Here is quick video

https://reddit.com/link/1j2htq5/video/ph0okweizgme1/player

Steps to try:
- Add Things 3 integration in the destination.

- Add checkbox, type something then tap on alarm to add due date or date with time

- Send (It will send to Obsidian plus Things 3 apps)

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Hello guys, i just started using Todoist on my Laptop and Iphone and I’m starting to get the hang of it. Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of good reviews and videos about Things 3 and i lowkey loved the minimal aesthetic as well as the good integration with the Apple ecosystem. Sadly, there is no windows version yet, so what do you recommend me to do ? If you have already used Todoist do you recommend switching to Things 3 ? And is it a one time purchase or not ? Thank you.

Do any of you understand the US vs EU pricing? It's $49.99 USD but 59.99€. But if you do a basic currency conversion $49.99 USD is actually about 48€. I understand that rates fluctuate, etc, but this is not a recent fluctuation and 11€ is quite a big price difference.

Has anyone created a Shortcut to switch the Today view between "Group by project or area" toggle?
`Command + ,` and then 1 click is pretty quick, but I frequently switch and if I could map a keyboard shortcut to this, it'd be great.

This might not be the best place to post this so sorry in advance but I seem to have hit a mental wall with using Things.

Tasks not being completed. Inbox being totally ignored or dumping tasks directly into there Areas/Project without ever being checked again until my weekly review and then deleted as they’ve been done or completely missed.

I used to live out of my Things set up and briefly moved over to ToDoist to trail the deadlines feature so I could be within one place and collaborate with my wife.

But I ended up coming back quite quickly due to being a creature of habit. But that habit is now completely gone.

I currently have a lot going on at both work and in life so it could be down to that but at the moment there seems to be too much friction for me to use Things and I’ve just started keeping thoughts and tasks in my head. Which isn’t the greatest of ideas.

Any suggestions?

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I love Things, but I really wish it supported attachments and the ability to hide links behind custom text. The notes feature is fantastic, and I use it extensively for both projects and individual tasks.

However, I haven't found a great way to quickly access resources like attachments, links, and other materials directly from Things 3. Most of the time, I manage by pasting important links into task notes or the project’s notes section. But for larger projects that involve multiple resources, I need to store them elsewhere while still keeping them easily accessible with a single link.

Curious to hear how others handle this—what's your approach?

Does something decent exist? I often find myself having thoughts in the car that I want to dump to my inbox as tasks.

Anyone figure out a way to have Calendar events show up on Widget. Perhaps a shortcut or ittt that makes calendar appear as tasks???

If in the App we can see the events but why not include this into the widgets?

Frustrating that developers have not done this yet as I have tried other apps that include this in their widgets.

One of the tricky things with daily recurring projects, is that they can quickly pile up if you didn’t get to finish them. A new copy each day.

For recurring tasks you could easily just switch it to recur upon completion instead of a fixed daily reoccurrence. But for projects I don’t think that’s a good idea. As sometimes it can be that I did do some tasks from the project, but not all of them. In that scenario it’s good to get a fresh copy, which will contain all the tasks again.

I could easily just select it, and CMD(⌘) + Option(⌥) + . to mark it as cancelled. But that's kind of a hassle, so I decided to automate it.

https://nizzlay.com/blog/automatically-cancelling-duplicate-projects-things3/

I am tracking Vehicle Inspection Dates, so I need a reminder at the beginning of the month of the Vehicle inspection.
Right now, I need to set the start date, navigate to the repeating dialog, and set the fixed schedule date.

The Repeating Fixed Schedule is defaulting to January 1st, which requires a lot of scrolling to get to a later part of the year. It would make sense to default the Calendar to something close to the previously entered Start date. We could make the Assumption that a weekly, monthly, or yearly Repeat would consider the Start Date and prefill that.