If Things 3 added location reminders and the ability to attach photos to tasks, it would be absolutely perfect. It’s still the only task manager I use. I love it.
Every Things 3 video I've seen never mentions hovering the mouse over the left-hand-side of the checkbox to bring up the date picker. Am I the only one who finds this useful? 🙂
I didn't even know that was there! Literally just10 min ago I was sitting here wishing they made it quicker to select the date, allowing us to make the date picker permanently visible. You just helped me out so much!!!! 😄
Awesome video! Question when you're selecting the emoji, is that a 3rd party tool you use for a shortcut to search emoji vs the ctl+cmd+space command? Thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing your workflow. I've tried using it in the past, but I made tagging and dates too complicated. I went back to writing down on a list because it was simple. This is the perfect approach!
Great video! I’m brand new to this app and can’t wait to get it up and running. I really appreciate the walk-through of the settings and options. Thanks so much!
at minute 13:00 you talk about Things not sorting by time set, and you call it due time but it's actually called reminder time, maybe that's why it doesn't automatically sorts by alarm time set. Because it isn't time that it's due, it's the time at which the app reminds you to do this task *somewhere today*
Thanks- useful info here. As a busy music teacher, I’ve been considering something like this to keep gigs, job responsibilities and life things in order. Might take the plunge and get this app.
Why didn't you want to allow access to calendar? I would think it's easier to use if you can sync with your apple calendar? I would want that. Do you entirely just enter calendar items in Things? I need an integration. What would you recommend?
Agreed, the time thing is super weird as it seems fairly well laid out otherwise. Sadly a deal breaker for me (I came to watch this to see whether to buy it). Also it has the Home title under Today, but not Work or TH-cam title, just the projects under them. Again, just a little strange. for one of the paid apps.
I want to love Things SO MUCH! How do you get around the lack of start dates? If you use deadlines as start dates, then how do you track true deadlines? My "dream app" is if THINGS3 and Remember The Milk had a baby. As old as RTM is, it still have innovations no other task manager has duplicated. Thanks for the video.
Work around for time showing up instead of just the little bell icon- I put the time in the description ( Example get dog food at 3 pm) and then set the reminder.
I saw two years ago that your favorite task manager was Things 3 and then one year ago Todoist and now it's back to Things 3. I'm wondering what wasn't ok with Todoist to came back to Things 3? I know Things 3 is the sexiest task manager software with a lot of convention over configuration but except that?
Haha good call! Yeah, I keep coming back to Things because it's just the right mix of style and substance for my needs. Todoist is my second favorite, though.
When should I use projects and when do I need to use areas. Honestly I’m using projects just because areas has no headlines, hence the view in todays views won’t be split and organised. As well as the area itself won’t be organised. I have things such as lets say: Work routines that are repeated always. should this be an area or a project. currently it's a project that is under Area "Work" Lets say also my investments with reminders of due dates and end of contracts are under project "Investments" under area personal. should it have it's own area better?
I’m searching for the perfect I-Phone Compatible Project Management/Tasks Management Software focused on repetitive events. It would offer a template option(s) with automated sequential sub tasks to “X” number of days/hours before and/or after. A task example “Post Agenda” 3 days before meeting. Is there anything out there?
Things 3 is one of those apps I really wish I could justify spending money on. But I’d need it on iPhone, iPad and Mac and 80€ is simply unreasonable when compared to the competition. Especially considering there’s no cross-platform functionality. Still an amazing looking program that I feel in love with during the trial. For now I’m sticking with regular apple reminders though. At least the iOS 16 update made it simple to assign tasks to a time for the day.
I thought the same way and I was a paying a subscription for another app. After two years of paying the subscription I was near what it would have cost for Things. Things does become cheaper as time goes on than the other apps cost.
I really love the idea of Things 3 but there is a steep price entry. I am trying to handle all of this on Notion, but I struggle to be that seamless to be honest
I'm feeling the same. It looks like a neat app, but it's definitely not worth £45 for basically a glorified to-do list. There are a lot of free apps which have the same features. Things 3 does it the cleanest and simplest but I don't think that makes it worth that much money.
Here are a few apps that I think are great value that are single time payments or you pay for significant updates: procreate, lumafusion or Affinity designer, Things. I think Drafts has a reasonable subscription model for advanced features. The only reason I have not yet subscribed to Drafts is I would like to see more content or tutorials on how to take advantage of the advanced features. I measure all other apps by these examples and I am also impressed with Readwise so I may actually decide to subscribe to this app. Love Fantastical but hate the price - they should not be charging so much when procreate puts out more advanced software and charges a lot less. Sorry smaller developers but these examples frame what I see as a reasonable price.
I was curious to understand why everybody's raving about Things 3, but after watching the video I'm seriously underwhelmed. Not because of three video (it's well done) but because I don't see anything special in what the app does. At the same time you make a couple of side remarks on things that could be better, like that it doesn't sort by time or the fixed govt size that immediately makes me wonder: why do users accept that? It must be some kind of trade off, but I don't see what people are getting in that trade.
Too much clicking around for me, and having to remember keyboard shortcuts for everything. I prefer the natural language in Todoist myself, but Things is definitely the prettiest.
People should stop watching the moment you say: "Honestly I don't use ANYTIME or SOMEDAY at all." I hate to sound like the average jerk on YT but I do. If you claim that, you don't use GTD (now that could become a heated argument! :) ...). It is super important to have videos like this to help people.getting a good start with a still complex method but I feel you shoot them in the knees before they even leave the block. So who those you read this: I don't claim he is wrong and I am right I just hope you find other sources that explain the whole thing. If you don't dig deeper it just stays another todo list.
Wow talk about micro management yuk lol I just keep it simple and I get along just fine I think to much micro management is as exiting as watching cars rust (just my opinion certainly)
If Things 3 added location reminders and the ability to attach photos to tasks, it would be absolutely perfect.
It’s still the only task manager I use. I love it.
Every Things 3 video I've seen never mentions hovering the mouse over the left-hand-side of the checkbox to bring up the date picker. Am I the only one who finds this useful? 🙂
Wholly Crap! I did not realize that function - thanks!
Command + S is a good option too.
I didn't even know that was there! Literally just10 min ago I was sitting here wishing they made it quicker to select the date, allowing us to make the date picker permanently visible. You just helped me out so much!!!! 😄
I just figured this out a couple of hours ago. And then I saw your comment. 😂
@@chrismicheleshaw1895*Holy crap 😏
Out of all the videos i have watched. Yours was the simplest to follow and very very practical!!
Congratulations on 1000 likes: well deserved. Thanks for the clear and concise summary.
Awesome video! Question when you're selecting the emoji, is that a 3rd party tool you use for a shortcut to search emoji vs the ctl+cmd+space command? Thanks!
Awesome video, just bought Things 3 and I love it! How did you get the emoji's while typing tho?
Thank you so much for sharing your workflow. I've tried using it in the past, but I made tagging and dates too complicated. I went back to writing down on a list because it was simple. This is the perfect approach!
Valuable video. Brief, specific, and on topic.
Nice video and thank you! and yeah, to me the most annoying thing is the lack of "sorting by time".
Love things 3. But unfortunately I’am also working on windows as a corporate machine. So I switched to Todoist.
Thanks for this video. Clear and simple.
I love this app, but I needed your video to understand.
Can you do a video of how to set up iPad shortcuts for Things 3? Thanks.
Great video! I’m brand new to this app and can’t wait to get it up and running. I really appreciate the walk-through of the settings and options. Thanks so much!
Really useful information. Thank you.
at minute 13:00 you talk about Things not sorting by time set, and you call it due time but it's actually called reminder time, maybe that's why it doesn't automatically sorts by alarm time set. Because it isn't time that it's due, it's the time at which the app reminds you to do this task *somewhere today*
Incredibly helpful stuff Matt! Loved the video!
Nice walkthrough and thanks for calling out the lack of accessibility options - it's the reason I stopped using it.
That's too bad. Sorry about that!
Thanks- useful info here. As a busy music teacher, I’ve been considering something like this to keep gigs, job responsibilities and life things in order. Might take the plunge and get this app.
Brilliant tutorial 👍🏻 New subscriber here. Cheers from Western Australia 🇦🇺🤝🏻
ty, I'm a Mac newbie, this is very helpful
Would you mind sharing your ‘trick’ for getting emoji by typing :etc ? TYIA
I think he's using an app called "Rocket".
There’s an app named Rocket
@@eliezerestrada6924 TY!
You can set up things Kanban board
Why didn't you want to allow access to calendar? I would think it's easier to use if you can sync with your apple calendar? I would want that. Do you entirely just enter calendar items in Things? I need an integration. What would you recommend?
I love Things 3. Also they pretty much immediately optimized for iOS16 which is neat for the lock screen widget. 10/10 tool.
So how does this stack up to Apple Reminders 2022? Seems like you can set it up just like Things 3.
Nice video, helps me a lot.
Agreed, the time thing is super weird as it seems fairly well laid out otherwise. Sadly a deal breaker for me (I came to watch this to see whether to buy it). Also it has the Home title under Today, but not Work or TH-cam title, just the projects under them. Again, just a little strange. for one of the paid apps.
Can you make a set up video like this for Arc?
having a hard time seeing what the point is for tags if you have to have an area for each task...
I want to love Things SO MUCH!
How do you get around the lack of start dates? If you use deadlines as start dates, then how do you track true deadlines?
My "dream app" is if THINGS3 and Remember The Milk had a baby. As old as RTM is, it still have innovations no other task manager has duplicated.
Thanks for the video.
Actually that’s one of the items Things does best! Use “When” for intended start and Deadline for your hard stop. Works just as intended. Enjoy!
Work around for time showing up instead of just the little bell icon- I put the time in the description ( Example get dog food at 3 pm) and then set the reminder.
I saw two years ago that your favorite task manager was Things 3 and then one year ago Todoist and now it's back to Things 3. I'm wondering what wasn't ok with Todoist to came back to Things 3? I know Things 3 is the sexiest task manager software with a lot of convention over configuration but except that?
Haha good call! Yeah, I keep coming back to Things because it's just the right mix of style and substance for my needs. Todoist is my second favorite, though.
Big help. Thanks
Great video!
When should I use projects and when do I need to use areas.
Honestly I’m using projects just because areas has no headlines, hence the view in todays views won’t be split and organised. As well as the area itself won’t be organised.
I have things such as lets say:
Work routines that are repeated always. should this be an area or a project. currently it's a project that is under Area "Work"
Lets say also my investments with reminders of due dates and end of contracts are under project "Investments" under area personal. should it have it's own area better?
I’m searching for the perfect I-Phone Compatible Project Management/Tasks Management Software focused on repetitive events. It would offer a template option(s) with automated sequential sub tasks to “X” number of days/hours before and/or after. A task example “Post Agenda” 3 days before meeting. Is there anything out there?
What about tasks I dont put in an area?
Is there a way to show completed task, and if so how back can you go?
Yes, and you can go back indefinitely.
What if I want to make some proxy settings for the previous date?I didn't find this function
Is there a way to sync Todoist with Things3 because i also have android devices and things dont work on android
Things 3 is one of those apps I really wish I could justify spending money on. But I’d need it on iPhone, iPad and Mac and 80€ is simply unreasonable when compared to the competition. Especially considering there’s no cross-platform functionality.
Still an amazing looking program that I feel in love with during the trial. For now I’m sticking with regular apple reminders though. At least the iOS 16 update made it simple to assign tasks to a time for the day.
I thought the same way and I was a paying a subscription for another app. After two years of paying the subscription I was near what it would have cost for Things. Things does become cheaper as time goes on than the other apps cost.
Things 3 cheaper than others because it needs one time payment.
Thanks for all the great content,
Is there a way to sync Things 3 with evernote?
Still not getting what makes this app worth the 49 bucks. Can you not do the same with Apple Reminders or Microsoft Todo?
I can do most of it, but I don't like using those apps, so $50 in 2018 and zero cost after that isn't too bad IMO 🙂
Hi, and the shortcuts???
I really love the idea of Things 3 but there is a steep price entry. I am trying to handle all of this on Notion, but I struggle to be that seamless to be honest
Then just pay for Things 3
I'm feeling the same. It looks like a neat app, but it's definitely not worth £45 for basically a glorified to-do list. There are a lot of free apps which have the same features. Things 3 does it the cleanest and simplest but I don't think that makes it worth that much money.
View completed tasks
Here are a few apps that I think are great value that are single time payments or you pay for significant updates: procreate, lumafusion or Affinity designer, Things. I think Drafts has a reasonable subscription model for advanced features. The only reason I have not yet subscribed to Drafts is I would like to see more content or tutorials on how to take advantage of the advanced features. I measure all other apps by these examples and I am also impressed with Readwise so I may actually decide to subscribe to this app. Love Fantastical but hate the price - they should not be charging so much when procreate puts out more advanced software and charges a lot less. Sorry smaller developers but these examples frame what I see as a reasonable price.
Meant for the most recent video about subscription prices but autoplay got me to the things 3 review and did not notice when I posted - haha
cool
My Things 3 on iPad does not have the Quick Entry option… my settings look different than yours.
I was curious to understand why everybody's raving about Things 3, but after watching the video I'm seriously underwhelmed. Not because of three video (it's well done) but because I don't see anything special in what the app does. At the same time you make a couple of side remarks on things that could be better, like that it doesn't sort by time or the fixed govt size that immediately makes me wonder: why do users accept that? It must be some kind of trade off, but I don't see what people are getting in that trade.
If there is a time required, can't you just put it as part of the title of the task? "Buy new dog food-3:30"
matt - you move too fast for beginners. ie. You say NOW LETS CREAT A PROJECT - but you dont say how to create a project - WHAT DID YOU CLICK ?
Too much clicking around for me, and having to remember keyboard shortcuts for everything. I prefer the natural language in Todoist myself, but Things is definitely the prettiest.
People should stop watching the moment you say: "Honestly I don't use ANYTIME or SOMEDAY at all." I hate to sound like the average jerk on YT but I do. If you claim that, you don't use GTD (now that could become a heated argument! :) ...). It is super important to have videos like this to help people.getting a good start with a still complex method but I feel you shoot them in the knees before they even leave the block. So who those you read this: I don't claim he is wrong and I am right I just hope you find other sources that explain the whole thing. If you don't dig deeper it just stays another todo list.
I honestly can’t justify the pricing and the hype on this app! It has nothing in it especial plus reminders even has more features
Wow talk about micro management yuk lol
I just keep it simple and I get along just fine
I think to much micro management is as exiting as watching cars rust (just my opinion certainly)
I don’t see the reason why I should pay 50/80 bucks for a pretty notion. Good video tho