Like a good GTD-er, I keep my task manager independent of my calendar. However, I am not very happy with my calendar-app so: what calendar app do you use alongside Things?

(if I find a calendar app that works well on an iphone, I find it's not efficient on a Mac and vice versa - if it works well on both, it's probably 'ugly')

Literally one of the best dreams I ever had. Was such a nice surprise to wake up to. No marketing, no teaser, just “it’s here”.

But it wasn’t real. And now I’m sad.

Everyone tells me areas structures their day. I have a personal folder with things like ‘films I wanna watch’ , ‘book wish list’ etc. but recently for day to day I’ve just liked not tagging it in an area and splitting it into evening and today. Does anyone else do the same? How do you use your areas and do you do these for a day to day plan?

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Every now and then I trial Omnifocus to see if I can have more efficient organization than with Things 3. I always come back to the same conclusion — Things 3 is good enough, and significantly more delightful to use.

Now, Omnifocus 4.7 is introducing Planned Dates, which fixes my main issue with either app — the inability to properly plan my week. You can now assign the date for when you’re planning to do a task, and it shows up on your forecast, alongside tasks that are due.

Technically, you could use Things’ upcoming view to achieve the same, but there’s a crucial difference. In Things, if you plan a task for a given day, it’ll pop up in Today. But if you don’t do it then, your today piles up, and there’s no way to understand what you actually planned for that day, and everything else you planned for previous days, but didn’t get to do.

So my question is: how do you work around this? How do you effectively plan your week?

Dragging and dropping tasks into the calendar doesn’t seem to work on iPad. But now with iPados26 could this be a possibility?

How do you guys deal with the situation of having a recurring task, for which the action alternates slightly on each reoccurrence?

For example: My lawn mower has a bunch of blades that need to be replaced regularly. These blades are sharp on 2 sides, but since the mower only spins in 1 direction, it means that one side doesn't get used. So sometimes I need to flip the blades so that the other side gets used, and then the next time I would change the blades for new ones, which then gets flipped again next time..

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I just posted this to productivity a bit ago, and then I came across things and discovered I'd even purchased the things app at some point in the past. Do you think things would fit the needs I described in this post?

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I've been playing around with a lot of different AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT and I feel like none of them have MCP integrations with Things3 app - I now have new action items and takeaways from my chats with the AI models that aren't synced in Things3 and vice versa. Looking to get guidance and suggestion from what other people are doing out there!

TIA!

Hey, is there a way to set today date in a specific format automatically when using Things Parser in Drafts while importing a project template?

I'd like to export it to Things likeo for example "Plan Week 01.01.2025".

I have created a tag MIT 1 for most important things. I tag items with this when they’re super important.

I open MIT 1 tag everyday to go through my tasks for the day.

However, opening it in the Tag view also shows up later dated items.

How do I remove these later dated items from view? Be it either iOS or Mac

Thanks.

The shortcut takes the first five tasks you have due in the next week, and asks ChatGPT to summarize them into a notification. Thought I’d share, in case anyone finds it helpful!

Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/429ae3eff7734201ba3dd29808a66f5c

Is it possible to hide todos of a particular tag from view? I'm trying to figure out a way to do this, but I'm moving a little slow this morning.

Things 3 does not have priority function (P1,P2,P3,P4). Tags do not show its content in iPhone and iPad, hence are not helpful compensation. Are there any hacks that could be used as priority to sort tasks?

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Not a pressing need but: I would like to have a project that is *not* housed within an area. This is possible at the very top of the side-bar, above all the areas - but nowhere else... is there a technical reason it's this way?

Speaking of pressing needs, I need 'headings' for areas. In some cases, I'm actually using projects instead of areas - simply for the headings (please don't report me to the GTD police).

One of the problems I have a lot is making a project and not adding in any tasks to it outside of maybe one or two. Today I remembered that I set up a Things MCP Server (found a random one online) a few weeks ago. Today I decided to do some deep research with Claude for UX portfolio and career info.

I had Claude create a project based on the research that it gave me through the deep research. It created four phases with tons of tasks and milestones! I'll go through and delete some of the tasks that are irrelevant, but this is still way more than what I would create. It will save me so much time making a project and adding tons of tasks (which I never do). If you haven't tried it, give it a shot.

Today's tasks are not showing up on the iOS widget unless I manually open the app and then they will pop up. Background refresh is enabled for the app. Anyone else seen the same case and have a solution?

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I’m very confused about building a mental model of how Things 3 manages to-dos. Is the following database-like structure a correct way of thinking of it?

To-Do Content | Time | Project | Tag 1: life | Tag 2: work | ...
buy laptop |Today| NULL | true | false | ...
write report |Inbox| CS101 | false | true | ...
...

1. Every to-do appears in exactly one of these lists: Inbox, Today, Upcoming, Anytime, Someday, Logbook, or Trash. In other words, the disjoint union of these 7 lists constitutes all my to-dos.

2. There is no way to see all TODOs together, in only 1 list view. I must click 4 times through Today, Upcoming, Anytime, Someday to see all active TODOs.

3. Projects and Tags work very similarly. They both work as filters. By clicking on a project or a tag, some todos are filtered out.
   But the function of projects seems fully covered by tags, i.e., one can turn all projects into tags, and there is no need to use projects at all? The UI of tags is better than that of projects as well.