Things 3

Things 3 is a VERY exciting and aesthetically pleasing replacement for the default Reminders app. With a lot of improvements that make your life easier. But don’t mistake it for a *real* project management tool. It’s not that and I have a feeling it hasn’t been designed for that purpose.

It’s good for managing personal to-do’s, shopping lists, and small-scale GTD. And it does it with style.

Here’s a quick rundown of things I like, things I don’t like, and my wishlist for future features. In no particular order:

Overall, it seems that there are quite many features missing — a surprising amount, considering the development time of Things 3.

Also, the developers seem to have a very strict and rigid workflow they want you to follow. This is a very opinionated software. Not everyone will like that.

Wish that some of the attention and time spent on all the visual details was allocated to implementing features that would allow for more flexibility and bringing functionality that seems obvious for a modern to-do app (collaboration!)

I sincerely hope that with the new app, the updates will be more regular (in contrast to Things 2), and that Things 3 will quickly catch up in the areas, where there are still shortcomings. Because despite all the omissions and annoyances, I still love using Things 3.

So I wrote all this shortly after Things 3 was released. So around May 2017. It’s now November and I’m still using Things as my primary reminders-slash-task management app.

In the meantime I tried getting back to Omnifocus, but that was brief. Bounced off OF and got back to Things. This piece of software is just so gorgeous and most importantly — it works the way I work.

See, most of my tasks are time-based. There’s a certain time I should get to them, a certain time I should at least start thinking about them and having them on my radar. Some have hard deadlines. Some don’t.

Thing is, I’m not this GTD guy who has a bunch of “next actions” laying around and deciding each morning which ones to tackle. I have more-or-less firm agenda for each day set ahead of time.

And in this context Things 3 shines.

It’s by far my favorite app on iOS.

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