Connect to your Google account or other calendar service and you’ll see your appointments for the day, followed by any tasks that are due. Things 3 builds on this idea, ingeniously, by integrating your calendar.
Todoist, which has been my to-do app of choice for the past two years, offers both “today” and “next 7 days” views that list your upcoming tasks in order. OmniFocus, perhaps the most overpowered of all to-do lists, offers a “Forecast” view that shows you the number of tasks you have coming up over the next week. One of the chief design decisions the maker of a to-do list app has to make is how to display your upcoming tasks. But mostly I want to talk about three things Things 3 does extremely well - and ought to inspire makers of to-do list apps the world over to imitate or improve on them. I’ve been using the app on Mac and iOS for the past week, and have generally been impressed - despite a handful of flaws that will likely be deal-breakers for many. They had been working on it for two years - and would continue working on it for the next three.Īnd so when Things 3 finally arrived this week, for a certain kind of productivity nerd, it felt like a major event. In 2014, when I evaluated the best to-do list apps on the market, I held off on including Things after the team told me they were hard at work on the next version of their app: Things 3.