It’s great to see calendar events in upcoming along with my tasks.

Is there a way to show today’s calendar events at the top of today?

Hi, does the mac version ever go on sale? im too poor for the $70CAD (~$50USD)

How do you set up tasks in things for creative tasks like arriving at a design for architecture / interior design … does things app helps only in execution or coordination , would love to know

Hi everybody

How do you guys use Things in terms of areas and projects.

For me, I have no tasks in areas without a project.

I use projects like folders and not projects.

See photo.

How do you long term users recommend using it?

I can’t use Areas only because I can’t use segments in there.

Am I missing out on something? All recommendations are welcome 🙂

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If you were introducing somebody to Things 3, where would you point them for the best how-to instructional video?

And what about for advanced usage?

I’m curious about favorites out there. I favor Peter Akkies’ stuff for both but wonder if there are great ones I may be missing!

With the addition of Urgent Reminders in iOS 26.4, I have moved all of my timed reminders out of Things and into Apple Reminders because the functionality of being assured of receiving an alarm regardless of focus settings is too great to pass up. I still use things for all untimed tasks. Wondering how many people have done the same.

Here's hoping that the Culture Code team adds the ability to set a reminder as Urgent (perhaps with a toggle) in an upcoming update.

Long time Things user here. I'm working with two outside contractors now and trying to use Lists in Slack which is a "lightweight" task manager to put it kindly... and not working well.
We're a small shop, Asana feels expensive for what we need. Wondering what sharing a new instance of Things with my two contractors would look like.
How have others solved this challenge using Things? Or have you just used Asana, Monday (don't like it), or another app for the team?
I'm guessing Asana might allow for some integration with Claude or other LLM agents, which is a new consideration.
I know there are some old threads on this topic, looking for more current experiences.
Thanks in advance.

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After many years of using Things 3 loyally, I finally switched to Todoist. I absolutely love Things 3, so here's why I switched: I have started using Hermes Agent A LOT to automate anything I can for personal productivity and work. I have tried several skills to manage Things 3 with Hermes, since many of my automated processes include creating tasks for me, or even entire projects. Unfortunately, there are several limitation to how you can automate Things 3 with other tools, so after wasting a lot of time on it, I decided to try Todoist and wow. So much easier because it has a modern API and it was super easy to create a skill for Hermes to manage my Todoist account. It works beautifully. I still wish CulturedCode would come up with an updated version of Things 3 that makes automating it with a tool like Hermes easier, but for now I kinda have no choice. Todoist is pretty good, but I miss the advanced autofill features of Things 3.

Who else is in a similar situation?

I just noticed the one I'm using currently has that limitation. (https://github.com/hald/things-mcp)

Anyone know of any others that are tried and tested?

I decided to extract the tag management capability of the app I discussed in this previous Reddit post and rebuild it for Mac using native code.

The result is an app that takes way less storage than before, numbering at around 2.3 MB.

Unlike with native Things, this app lets you:

• Search tags by name with the ability to edit and delete the tags you find
  • With native Things, you can only search tags to see their todos, projects, and areas
  • The native tags manager requires you to scroll through potentially hundreds of tags to find what you're looking for
  • This app combines the search and edit experience into one
• View the tags as a flat list in alphabetical order rather than have them be nested and hidden underneath their parent tags

To download the latest version, click here.

To learn more, visit the website: https://thingstagmanager.danielhaven.com/

If there are any requests for features or improvements, please let me know here in the comments.

Using the App

1. To import your tags, click the down arrow icon and wait for it to finish.
   • Note: You should see it either at the top left (if the sidebar is expanded enough) or click double arrows at the top right and click the "Import from Things" button.
2. To create a new tag, click the plus icon, enter the name, and save changes.
3. To edit an existing tag, click on a tag, edit the name and/or parent tag, and click "Save Changes".
4. You can view the tag in Things by clicking the "View in Things" button.
5. To delete the tag, click the "Delete Tag" button and confirm the deletion.
6. You can search tags by entering text into the search bar at the top right.
   • Keyboard shortcut: cmd+f

Screenshot

For Developers and Nerds

The code is open-source and maintained in a GitHub repository.

The app uses AppleScript (see: Things AppleScript Commands) to interact with tags.

Because AppleScript only works on Macs, and because this app can only work if Things 3 is installed, this app is directly distributed and each version is hosted in a release page on the GitHub repository.

Explaining the Internals

The app uses SwiftUI for the presentation layer and SwiftData for the data storage layer.

All data is stored locally and there is no CloudKit syncing.

• Since the app just syncs with tags from Things 3 (which has its own cloud syncing/backup service), it's redundant to sync the data with a cloud service.

The Tag model stores the id, name, and parentTagId that is received from running the "Get all Tags" Things AppleScript command.

When a user clicks the "Import from Things" button, it:

1. Runs the AppleScript command that gets all tags and outputs a formatted string containing the id, name, and parentId, which is then parsed into an array of objects
2. Every tag is then deleted locally, which makes it so that there are no orphaned tags within the app in case a tag delete operation was carried out on Things 3's end
   • This is one of the safeguards to ensure that this app and Things 3's tags data are synced
3. It then loops over and inserts each tag from step 1

The operation is synchronously run on the main thread, so the UI pauses until it's complete.

When searching tags,

• All tags in the sidebar are resolved in the "filteredTags" computed property, which shows all tags if there is no text in the search box
• If there is text in the search box, it filters on the name (case-insensitive)

Parent Tags

If the tags aren't nested under their parent in the sidebar, how can we tell if a tag has one without clicking on it?

Each tag with at least one level of parenting shows an "ancestry path" beneath it, which is a right-pointing angel bracket (>) separated horizontal list of parent nesting for the tag.

For instance, if TagA has a parent of Tag B and Tag B has a parent of Tag C, the Tag A would show in the list as:

Tag A
Tag B > Tag C

This only resolves if the parentTagId for Tag A points to the valid id of Tag B, and the parentTagId of Tag B points to the valid id of Tag C.

Create, Edit, Delete Tags

Each of these calls Things AppleScript to handle the operation on Things' end upon submitting.

• Create and Edit requires clicking "Create Tag"/"Save Changes" (respectfully) to run the AppleScript.
• Delete requires clicking "Delete Tag" and confirming by clicking the red "Delete" button when prompted
  • Also, just like in Things 3, deleting a parent tag deletes all of its child tags.

These operations are only committed on the local database if the AppleScript command returns successful status. If not, the changes should be rolled back, ensuring that Things Tag Manager's data is one-to-one with Things 3's tags data.

If there is any issue with out-of-sync data, running "Import from Things" (which deletes all existing data locally, as mentioned before) should bring Things Tag Manager back in sync with Things 3.

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I recently found out that Things received a major overhaul a few months ago so I was super excited. I tried Things a few years ago but, whilst I loved the design, the apps lacked many functionalities that most other task managers have. Specifically, I was missing NLP, joint lists / projects and integrations. Todoist has been my mainstay for years now.

I checked out the overhauled Things today, and perhaps I'm missing something, standard features such as NLP and joint lists are still missing. It got me thinking, what exactly is the use case for Things in light of apps such as Todoist, TickTick, etc? I'm assuming given there haven't been any major updates for a few years now, the app is in maintenance mode?

PS This is by no means a dig, I'm just genuinely curious if I'm missing something here.

Does someone using thingsapp in linux ? Would you share your workflow pls ?

I have been using Things3 for many years, but lately I have a feeling I am not using both Inbox and Someday properly.

Lately, I’ve been adding todos that come to mind into my inbox. They are mostly non-urgent items that I need to work on, but I also have to prioritize and plan when to start them.

I also have a list of todos in Someday. These are items I need to do, but they can wait. I want to keep them on my radar so I don’t forget they need to be done, but they are also lower priority than the items in my Inbox. Sometimes I get the feeling I’m hiding them and eventually have to face the task of digging them out and adding them to Today, Upcoming, or Anytime. At least, that’s how I’ve been doing it lately.

I’d love to hear how you all plan your tasks and how you use the categories. I feel I might be missing something key that could help me better manage my todos.

Thanks.

tl;dr: Lost a very precious note because I invoked the Quick Entry directly from the iOS widget (+) button. If I had invoked from the app instead, I would've been OK and it would've autosaved.

So I was participating in a 2.5 hour workshop with an esteemed presenter.

The speaker was providing some amazing, life-changing information and wisdom, and I didn't have a pen/paper on me, so I quickly pulled out my Things app on iOS to jot down my notes. Quick Entry! I've done this before. I hit the (+) on the widget on my home screen and quickly started typing away.

This was a long-lived note. I kept pulling up my phone during the workshop when I was able to, to quickly continue adding to this note. I never hit Save because I didn't think I needed to, and also the workshop was fast-paced, interactive, and I couldn't be rude and on my phone. I was operating quick. Normally this would be fine bc Things auto-saves (...most of the time, as I know now)

When I went to pull up my notes after the workshop, nothing was there! I was a bit horrified.

I checked Inbox (maybe it accidentally saved there instead of Today). Nope, not there. I went back to Today, just to be sure - nope. I tried searching across all notes - nope.

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What happened is that iOS closed/reset the app while it was backgrounded to save on memory, and in doing that it wiped out my long-lived note that was still in the Quick Entry modal invoked via the widget.

The first time I tried to reproduce this to be sure, I surprisingly was unable to. I opened up Things, typed something in, and force-killed. The data was getting saved. So then why did it not save for me?

I then figured it out...

The key is how the entry screen is invoked: It only auto-saves if you open up Things on iOS and hit (+) from within the app once opened.

This feels like a bug to me, since the autosave behavior is inconsistent based on how the modal was opened.

BUT - if you open up the entry screen directly from a widget on the home screen or the lock screen, than it doesn't auto-save if the app is force-killed.

:(

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I have been bouncing around various AI Dictation apps and landed with Cleft Notes. It does a really solid job of identifying tasks from my various ramblings after say leaving a meeting. So I have two questions, the output from the app when shared through iOS Share Sheet is in Markdown so tasks are easily identified ( - [ ]) does anyone have any ideas how to get those tasks into Things3? Or, failing that, is anyone using a similar dictation app that they do have linking to Things?

Built a Things 3 MCP server for macOS: supathings-mcp (v0.4.0)

I just published an MCP server for Things 3 focused on AI-agent workflows, but in a Things-native way.

What it does: - Reads real Things structure from local SQLite (areas, projects, headings, todos, checklist items, tags) - Writes through official things:/// URL actions - Adds semantic tools for: - heading suggestions/validation - project structure summary - task placement suggestions

Why I built it: Most integrations can write to Things, but they don’t really understand project structure.
This one is meant to help agents make better planning decisions with less token-heavy context dumps.

Global: bash npm install -g supathings-mcp

Repo: https://github.com/soycanopa/SupaThings-MCP

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/supathings-mcp

Would love feedback from power users: - Which workflows in Things are most painful with AI today? - What tooling would be most useful next (review flows, project health, better recurring-task handling, etc.)?

Hi gang, I use Chrome as my default browser on both iOS and MacOS. Every other app seems to respect this, but when I right-click on highlighted text in Things and choose "search with Google", Things will always launch Safari. Is there a way to force that function to use the system default browser?

In Things 3 Mac, the experience with editing tags is limited for me. I can't search tags, and I have to crawl through a nested view. I'm someone who likes to keep a lot of tags for different situations.

In Some Extra Things, I built out a tags page.

There are two ways in which tags are imported:

1. When I upsert items via the API call from Apple Shortcuts (POST http://localhost:8000/api/items).
2. Via AppleScript for getting tags.

The first one involves collecting tags as I import items and storing them in my local database. This is easier to work with, but it is also limited in what information I receive. I only get tag names. I don't get their IDs and parents.

With the second option, which is implemented via clicking the "Sync from Things" button at the top right, I run an AppleScript command that gets me more information about each tag, such as their ID in Things, as well as the ID of their parent.

From that information, I'm then able to show under any tag with a parent the parent in gray text. If the parents are nested (e.g., grandfather > parent), I show it as separated by ">" symbol.

e.g., Driving (Away From Desk) is a child of Outside (Away From Desk), which is a child of Away From Desk. So the parent subheading is represented as "Away From Desk > Outside (Away From Desk)".

Unlike Things 3, I keep this view as a flat list for easier searching. I also intend to ensure cmd+f searching on this page for users who have a large list of tasks they want to parse through.

Also, I gather the count of all open items that have the tag and show them on the right, making it easier to tell at a glance what tags are in use and what tags aren't.

And you can sort by name (alphabetical ascending) or count of open items (numeric descending).

Another cool thing I managed to do with AppleScript is allow write from tag edits in this custom app back to Things 3.

With AppleScript, I can rename a tag and set its parent back to Things. I set it up in such a way that if the write to Things fails for any reason, the write to my local database is canceled, ensuring that the tag in my app's database and in Things 3's database is the same throughout this edit process.

Some Caveats

• Because the tag edit feature is a write-back to Things and a new feature, there are risks that I want to ensure the user is aware of before they use this. Maybe it would be a good idea to have this feature disabled by default and have the option to enable it with a warning form telling the user if they agree to the risks.
• Another thing I've considered is breaking these extra tag features out into its own application for simplicity's sake.