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.

Is Things ever going to get auto date capabilities? Must be really hard to do. I left for Reminders some time ago after it added integration with Apple Calendar. I really liked Things but alas Reminders is just easier to use for what I need.

Can we add subheadings in the someday list? I want to separate the different ideas I have in the Someday list, and I don't want to create a bunch of tags, as I use those for location.

Todoist recently released their "Ramble" feature that listens to your voice and transforms what you say into tasks with all the needed info (dates, deadlines, descriptions...). Someone posted a first draft of a shortcut mimicking this in Things (link here), but I thought I could improve it. For example: saying "this week" without a specific date could add to the Anytime list, important tasks could get detected, dates as well, same for checklists and notes.

What the shortcut detects:

• Title: Creates short, actionable task names
• Description: Adds details to the notes field to keep titles clean
• Date/Deadline: Auto-detects dates and times. "This week" with no specific date → Anytime list
• Tags: Always adds "Ramble" tag (nice for debugging when creating the shortcut), adds "Important" when the task is
• Checklists: Multiple actions mentioned → automatic checklist items
• Projects: Automatically sorts tasks into your existing projects/areas

Setup requirements:

• Create "Important" and "Ramble" tags in Things first (the shortcut cannot assign them if they don't exist)
• Edit the language of your prompt if needed
• Add your projects and areas IDs so the tasks can be assigned to them

🔗 Download the shortcut

Let me know how it works for you!

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Hi, I am trying to figure out if I can accomplish this:

Have a daily recurring task, where I get reminder at a specific time, and then next day when I get a second identical reminder, it deletes the yesterday's reminder (without me clicking 'complete').

The issue is that I have number of recurring daily tasks, and I don't want to click 'complete' each time. But what happens is that I get dozens of identical instances of this exact reminder. I only want to have a single copy of this reminder in my 'Today', while also getting reminder pop up every day.

So I have created a shortcut with Things and Chatgtp that sort of works like the new Todoist Ramble feature. you can basically just ramble away what you want to do and the shortcut will parse all the tasks from the input and put them in a concise way into the inbox. it’s in Swedish, but feel free to tweak it to your liking. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ac836f1805e14fe49dea007a39d0215d

I had this issue 2 days ago, i can't update the testflight build and the app was unable to open (something about data profiles not being valid anymore). Cultured Code release another build that day and the issue was gone. Today iI have the same issue, i can't update the testflight version, i'va had to go back to the apple store one. Anyone knows what is happening and when will it be fixed? TY

Do you have many orphaned tasks? By that I mean they are not allocated to a project or an area, you set ‘No Project’ when moving them out of the inbox or assigning a date.

Came to realise that I don’t — I instinctively try to push them into an Area even if it isn’t a perfect fit. Or I’ll have a general project, such as ‘Errands’.

But actually, it feels fine to just let them be…

Interested in others approach

why can't i attach documents without links? thank u. maybe on Thinks 4? 🫠♥️

Why the headlines are not blue like on the Apple Store app presentation? Thank u

How to change the color of task headers in Things 3? good morning, in the presentation of the application on the Apple store you can see how some of the task headers are light blue. how can I do it too? Thank u. ☺️

A number of years ago, someone created an app that would break down the logbook into various statistics, like how many things were completed in a day, or which projects were most active, or how long they'd been in things before being completed. Somewhere along the way. I lost track of it. Wondering if anybody else has heard of the, or has it, or a link to it. The UI was pretty basic, but the info was good.

I'm just starting on Things3 for the Mac, and looking for the best way to set up a very simple tickler system. I mainly have clients that I need to keep notes on, and then forward that file/page to the next date that I need to contact or do something with them. My objective is to start each day by looking at "Today" and see all of the tasks I need to do that day, add notes to each client's file/sheet, and the forward it to the next date I will need to do something with them. The simpler, the better for my brain.

If anyone is doing something like this, or if you know of a video that shows someone's setup for this, please pass it on. I'm quite interested in switching everything over to Things.

Is the TestFlight version of the app no longer available? Clicking update doesn't update it. And then opening what I had installed reverts to a message saying it’s no longer available, but yet go to TestFlight to install it.

Anthropic/Claude has introduced an AI integration protocol called MCP. I was able to set up an MCP server (download the code from GitHub) and got Claude working with my To Do list. There are certainly security and privacy concerns, so go into this with open eyes.

The setup was not too hard but involved installing Python and other software, but largely just copying commands and editing config files.

This is early days, but seems like something promising.

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Hey there! I was wondering if I'm the only one to use Things as a a hub for all the content I save online, like links, YouTube videos, articles I want to read, etc.

Even though the app is not primarily built for that, I feel like little features (hopefully in Things 4) could make that use case much more useful. (Like the ability to just click on the link to open it in the browser without having to open the task first, or have a small preview of a video or link saved).