r/thingsapp

I use an iPad and my iPhone often and need to create a link in Things3 that opens an Apple Note. I can easily do this on a Mac, but not on my iPad or iPhone.

On my Mac, I go to the note, click the share icon (the Box with the up arrow), and select copy link. Very simple. I just paste the link in Things3.

Using my iPad, I can't figure out what steps I need to take to do the same thing.

I open the note, tap the same share icon (the box with an up arrow), and at that point I can either copy all the text from the note and paste it into Things3, or send the note to a todo in Things3. I don't want any of that. I want a link in things3 so I can select and work from the notes file.

Do any of you have an idea how to create the link from an iPad or iPhone?

I am a degenerate Things user in that I have never used the "Today" screen in Things 3 once. I treat "Inbox" as the most pressing screen. Instead of being something to get to 0, it's something that usually sits around 15-30 items - a number that's not overwhelming & lets me quickly see quickly the various pursuits I'm tracking and lets me put tasks in competition with each other.

Obviously this means the traditional "Inbox" item i.e. unsorted tasks will be conflated with "tasks that require action soon". But this works well. Because an unsorted task should be sorted soon.

If an item must be scheduled it will be promoted to my calendar (I self-host this with radicale & mostly use Apple calendar to view).

Anyone else work this way?

I remember the jump from v2 to v3 took about 7 years. It's been about that long for v3. Are there any plans for v4 on the horizon? there are so many things missing at this point. Calendar integration would be nice....

I deleted a 'repeating task' and then it showed up again. This is because it appears on the first of each month (bills) but I'm not sure how to perma-delete it so all future occurrences are gone as well. Advice please? Thank you!

I think we've got our best odds of getting a Things 4 concurrent with 27 because of the significance of Apple Intelligence being meaningfully integrated and powerful.

Cultured Code made the right call to ignore it when it was first announced and subsequently failed to manifest as a real feature. That was an odd departure from their normal practice of fully taking advantage of new capabilities in the OS in Things. That felt like a meaningful omission.

This time, however, it sounds like the new OS will be powerful thanks to Gemini and may be a significant new asset to apps. And, they've had lots of time to see AI in the wild and think about how it can be effectively utilized. This feels like a watershed kind of moment that they would want to be at the forefront of. If not now, when? If not this what? I'm going to be watching closely for signs.

I built things3-cloud, a CLI for Things 3 (written in rust) that talks directly to the Things Cloud API!

The main reason I made it was so agents like Claude Code or Codex could interact with my Things tasks directly, without relying on local workarounds like AppleScript, Shortcuts, URL schemes, or reading the local database. it syncs its changes to the cloud immediately after each command. Though, to be fair, reverse-engineering the Things Cloud API is also its own kind of hacky.

I’ve been using it for the last few months and it has been pretty stable. It supports the main workflows I wanted from an agent or terminal:

things3 today
things3 find --query "rent" --deadline "<=2026-03-31"
things3 new "Follow up with team" --when today
things3 schedule <task-id> --deadline 2026-04-10
things3 mark <task-id> --done

It can create/edit tasks, manage projects/areas/tags, update checklists, search tasks, and sync through Things Cloud with a local cache for fast startup.

A few warnings: this uses an unofficial/reversed API, so use it at your own risk. Earlier on, I hit a few cases where an incorrect API payload confused the official clients and effectively froze Things Cloud access with a misleading “you need to upgrade” message. It was recoverable by disabling/re-enabling Things Cloud and replacing the cloud data from a local client, but it was definitely scary. I think I’ve squashed those issues now.

I’m also not 100% sure it will work for everyone’s cloud history. Older Things users may have older data in their cloud database that I didn’t encounter while reversing the protocol. If you try it and run into problems, please let me know.

Repo: https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/things3-cloud

Curious if other Things users have wanted something similar, especially for AI-agent workflows. Happy to answer questions in the comments.

I have been using Things 3 for years and love its look and how well it works, but I always need it to do more. Right now, I am using Projects to group things like Deliveries (items on the way to me), Waiting (items I am waiting on others for), and Appointments (all my appointments). I can select them and see everything in that category in one place, instead of tags, where you have to scroll through them. What are others doing to help you see things better?

Personally, I don’t like this guy’s videos all the that much, but he does cover the new Reminders features well. Some pretty compelling changes are coming that make Reminders more powerful and easier to use. One wonders if Things is planning any changes for iOS 27.

I use many tags and would like to consolidate them into one list so they're easy to see all at once. For example, I would like to see everything with the waiting tag, including upcoming, anytime, and Someday, all in one list. Is this possible?

Currently, I can only see those tags within each category, not all together.

I am thinking this could be done in Shortcuts, but I'm not sure how to do that. Does anyone have a shortcut that would do that?

Thanks