Ok, here are my top wishes for the mythical, magical Things 4:
As someone who has used Things 3 since 2017, I appreciate the app’s simplicity and strong foundation. It is fast and functions like a Swiss knife, though adding major features such as attachments, collaboration, and a kanban board has taken long time to implement. I listened to the podcast with the Things app CEO, he confirmed they held back features for a future Things 4 release. I doubt we will see Things 4 anytime soon; I expect an announcement next summer or in fall 2027. The positive aspect is that they will avoid a subscription model and keep the one-time purchase. I am frustrated and considering another tool, torn between Notion and the Tasks kanban app. What do you use currently to complete your projects?
Hi guys,
Ive had a lot of people email me who loved things3 and told me I should post here incase its of interest to any of you. To cut to the chase a couple of years ago I started building an app called Chunk.
Its a mac-only time-blocking app with both tasks and lists and timeline view for time-blocking. When you've decided when you want to allocate time for a task, you can enter plan mode and drag the tasks from your lists directly onto the timeline.
I love things3 too so just mentioning here incase its of interest to anyone.
the app has a no-card-required 100% free 7 day trial then is a lifetime license if your interested its Chunk
Hi all, I am new to Things, after 12 years with Todoist I got tired of paying now $60 a year, and seeing I am now all mac I have switched.
One of the first frustrations I've had is not being able to easily click on a tag and see a list that's linked to that tag, specifically in my NextActions GTD flow that I had in Todoist.
What I've ended up doing is tagging items with Next, which works well. And today I found that if you search, you can search that tag, which gives you a dedicated view of all those items. I then used the share button to get a link to that view. Once I had that, then in SuperCMD, which is a Raycast alternative, I made a shortcut with CMD-N, which simply opens that view in Things.
So now from my keyboard, I have shortcuts to Inbox, Today, and Next Items, whenever I want to see them, which I actually find really quick and easy to do.
I do find Things a lot less "noisy" than Todoist, the other "limitation" I have worked around is using the helper to link local files as Things does not take attachements. In hindsight, this for me is actually perfect because, if I had my way, my task manager would be end to end encrypted. This way, I can have a link to the file kept locally. That means nothing to other people who may view the data. (Not that I think they would.) Before I'm asked, I did try OmniFocus, but it is just way too clunky, complex, and an overkill for my workflows.
I work for a large company that is all-in on Microsoft 365. Our laptops are also completely locked down. I cannot install anything. I’ve been trying to track work tasks on my personal iPhone but it’s not ideal. The only task manager I can use on my work laptop is Microsoft To Do. It does not work the same way as Things, like completed lists (that I try to use as a Project) remain visible even though they are empty or all done.
Has anyone been able to make To Do more Things-like?
I’ve been using this app for over eight years, it’s the only one that works for my brain. However, every couple of years I need to change my setup to "trick" myself into feeling like I'm using something "new."
Or sometimes, life simply changes, and my setup does not work as good as it used to.
I am in need of inspiration, If you have ADHD, I would love to hear about your setup & what works for you.
Thanks in advance!
Anyone else getting duplicates on all recurring tasks since the last update?
Things (famously?) doesn't have a built-in priority field, and I've come around to thinking that's the right call. I follow GTD, which skips "urgent" and "low priority" tags because priority shifts daily with energy, competing commitments, and whatever lands unexpectedly. A tag you set Monday is stale by Wednesday.
But I still wanted help deciding what to pull into Today. So I tried computing priority fresh every time instead of storing it.
Some context: my Things setup is already wired into AI agents. They groom my list twice a day, move tasks around, and check things off when they finish the work. So adding a scoring step was a natural next piece.
For scoring I'm using Jev from TypeSafe, a decision model that returns quick yes/no probabilities and scores instead of writing text. For every open to-do, it answers:
It sees each task's notes, deadline, tags, its project and the other open to-dos around it, plus a short note on my current goals that I update during the week. The answers get weighted into two scores, one for Today and one for This Week.
It's fast enough to be practical. All 238 open to-dos get scored in about a second for under a penny, and answers are cached, so re-ranking after I change something is basically instant.
The output is a ranked list I use during my daily review to decide what moves into Today and what matters this week. Nothing gets written back as a tag, so Things stays clean.
This was really just an experiment for me to play with.