The developers of Things have finally found the perfect balance of easy use and robust features. The design team at Cultured Code have worked their magic all over the app, and every individual bit and pixel has been redesigned and crafted to perfection.
It was simply designed with the understanding that real people are going to be using it for real life. What an amazing piece of software. Things on iPad and iPhone is one of the most tactile, fast-as-you-can-move apps around. Each animation is purposeful. Mainly, it is fun. To put stuff into, to rearrange. It is old. Things has been around for over ten years. I was glad to open it ten years ago, and I am glad to open it today.
As an added benefit, our work on code unification has eliminated such quirks, providing a more consistent experience across devices. Another improvement in this release is for shortcuts of a different kind: keyboard shortcuts. On non-US layouts, shortcuts involving letters will mostly stay the same, but shortcuts with special characters will now be easier to type — and some that were previously impossible to use can now be typed for the first time! Check out our updated keyboard page for your layout.
You can also look in the menus on Mac, or hold down Cmd on iPad. All these improvements are available now in Things 3. We hope you enjoy using Shortcuts across your devices and look forward to seeing what you build with it! This is our big fall update for iOS Available now in Things 3.
Try it out: Open a to-do, tap in the notes field, tap again to bring up the menu, and activate Live Text. Now point your camera at some text and voila!
It automagically appears in your to-do. Things has had outstanding support for external keyboards for a while. The app is fully navigable from your keyboard, and there are many powerful shortcuts. With iPadOS 15, it gets even better:. Things 3. We hope you enjoy these great new features! Four great new features go hand in hand to elevate your note-taking to a whole new level:. Bullet Lists 2. Markdown 3. Find in Text 4. When you open a to-do, your notes take center stage. While many of your notes will only be a line or two, some can grow quite long — with detailed plans, reference material, brainstorms, and so on.
The longer a note gets, the more important it becomes to have a way to structure it. Simply type - followed by a space. Indeed, but now they get the treatment they deserve:. To nest a list, simply insert spaces in front of a bullet. As many of you requested, you can now use Markdown to structure and style your notes.
If you already know Markdown, go ahead and try it out. Things detects a wide range of commonly-used syntax and renders it in a unique blend of proportional and fixed-width fonts. It looks and feels great! Things will detect this and render the word in italics.
If you remove the asterisks, it goes back to normal again. Here are a few more examples:. Many people love Markdown, and you might end up liking it, too.
To learn more, be sure to check out our Markdown Guide. On iOS, you can double-tap a word, then tap Aa and choose a style from the popover. Until now, each time you modified a note — say to insert or remove a few words — the entire note would be synced again across all your devices. With our new method, only the fragments of text you modify are synced. This drastically improves the speed and efficiency of the sync, and allows for smarter resolution of conflicts.
We hope you enjoy this update, and look forward to hearing what you think! Get it now for Mac , iPad , and iPhone. The powerful new widgets that recently came to iOS are now available on your Mac, giving instant access to your most important lists. You can add as many as you want.
To set them up, swipe the Notification Center in from the right side of your screen. The default widget will show your Today list, but you can configure it to show any list you like: right-click the widget and choose Edit Things to flip it over. This is useful if you want to focus on particular types of to-dos, such as Errands you need to run, Work items, and so on.
Before, you could only snooze an alert for 10 minutes, but now you can choose how long: 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour. Perhaps best of all, the app no longer jumps to the foreground when you hit snooze! This update is available now for download on the App Store.
Things 3. We hope you enjoy these great new features! Four great new features go hand in hand to elevate your note-taking to a whole new level:. Bullet Lists 2. Markdown 3. Find in Text 4. When you open a to-do, your notes take center stage.
While many of your notes will only be a line or two, some can grow quite long — with detailed plans, reference material, brainstorms, and so on. The longer a note gets, the more important it becomes to have a way to structure it. Simply type - followed by a space. Indeed, but now they get the treatment they deserve:.
To nest a list, simply insert spaces in front of a bullet. As many of you requested, you can now use Markdown to structure and style your notes. If you already know Markdown, go ahead and try it out. Things detects a wide range of commonly-used syntax and renders it in a unique blend of proportional and fixed-width fonts. It looks and feels great! Things will detect this and render the word in italics. If you remove the asterisks, it goes back to normal again. Here are a few more examples:.
Many people love Markdown, and you might end up liking it, too. To learn more, be sure to check out our Markdown Guide. On iOS, you can double-tap a word, then tap Aa and choose a style from the popover. Until now, each time you modified a note — say to insert or remove a few words — the entire note would be synced again across all your devices.
With our new method, only the fragments of text you modify are synced. This drastically improves the speed and efficiency of the sync, and allows for smarter resolution of conflicts. We hope you enjoy this update, and look forward to hearing what you think! Get it now for Mac , iPad , and iPhone. The powerful new widgets that recently came to iOS are now available on your Mac, giving instant access to your most important lists. You can add as many as you want. To set them up, swipe the Notification Center in from the right side of your screen.
The default widget will show your Today list, but you can configure it to show any list you like: right-click the widget and choose Edit Things to flip it over. This is useful if you want to focus on particular types of to-dos, such as Errands you need to run, Work items, and so on.
Before, you could only snooze an alert for 10 minutes, but now you can choose how long: 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour.
Perhaps best of all, the app no longer jumps to the foreground when you hit snooze! This update is available now for download on the App Store. We hope you enjoy it! October 25th, All Things Speed. On Mac, you can assign a keyboard shortcut, or use the new Shortcuts menu at the top of your screen to quickly get at your favorites. Quickly run your favorite shortcuts from the menu bar on macOS Monterey. Add an Errand. Pack for Flight. Shop for Essentials. Save My Location.
Show My Work Deadlines. Do Weekly Review. September 20th, Things for iOS It shows your to-dos for Today, Tomorrow, and the two days after that. It shows a single list, but in two columns so you can see more to-dos at a glance. Stay on top of your schedule with the extra-large Up Next widget top. See more to-dos at a glance with the double-wide List widget bottom. Check out our 15 day free trial of Things for Mac.
The all-new Things Things is the award-winning personal task manager that helps you achieve your goals. Watch Introduction Video. For Mac macOS For iPad iOS Follow us on Twitter. Apple Apple Design Award. It is simple and easy to use, and it has a beautiful design.
While being powerful enough for even the most detailed and organized power user, it is also simple enough for the rest of us. The developers of Things have finally found the perfect balance of easy use and robust features. The design team at Cultured Code have worked their magic all over the app, and every individual bit and pixel has been redesigned and crafted to perfection.
