Grab my free Things and Todoist cheat sheets: Things 3: peterakkies.ck.page/things-cheat-sheet Todoist: peterakkies.ck.page/todoist-cheat-sheet

Hi Peter. Just some additional points about Things. 1. Things also has natural language input for the date/time when creating a task. 2. Using the standard "Quick Entry with Autofill" feature on the Mac version, you can automatically create a task with an embedded link to the object you're currently looking at. This works with web sites (not need to copy-paste the link, like you showed), emails (no need to forward the message to your Things address, like you showed), and even files (this is a good substitute for the missing file attachment function). 3. Time blocking is easy with Things on the Mac. Just have your calendar app and Things open side-by-side and drag a task from Things to the calendar - a calendar entry will automatically be created for the chosen date/time, with a default duration of one hour. This can easily be changed by re-sizing the event on your calendar. I hope you find this info useful.

I enjoyed this video. I have bounced back and forth between Things 3 and Todoist and have landed on Things. The way I work around the lack of priority sorting is by using the MoSCoW method (Must do, Should do, Could Do, and Will try to do) and assigning tags to each category. I can then sort by tags (in a separate window on my Mac) and focus on what is important for today. Again, loved the video. Keep it up!

Great great content! Highly impressed by the condensed information you've put into the video. While considering myself as a hardcore todoist user, I learnt some new things by watching. Keep up the good work 👍👍

Love your presenting style - you explain everything clearly, give examples and point out the pluses and minuses of what you’re comparing. Love your courses too. Both Things 3 and Todoist do a superb job; it’s more a question of which of them meets your specific needs. If a best of breed task manager were to be created from both of them it would be awesome.

Amazing video! So thorough. Thank you!!!

Hey dude. This is only the second one of your videos I’ve ever watched but just want to say, I saw from the other you were considering skydiving lessons and now you’re doing them, I’m happy for you! Happy new year

Pro-tip for time-blocking duration of tasks in todoist - simply add in brackets the duration in minutes at the end of the task. For example: Study Peter’s todoist course [180m] Now when I schedule that task for a specific date+time it shows in my fantastical as 3 hour duration 😊 15:26

two other minor differences: 1) becauas of the way Things handles recurring reminders, you cannot check a task as complete until the repeat has spawned a second task. Which at times means if you complete a task early, you cannot complete it in the app. 2) Things projects have that like circle that shows you completion percents of the tasks within the project

I know that you always make a good reviews about productivity apps, please could you try sorted 3 and make a review a I really want to use this app but you always touch important points, good video btw

This is a very timely video as I'm in the process of deciding if I will switch back to Things after having used Todoist for about 2 months. Things always finds a way to draw me back in with its beautiful design and how it handles dates. But it seems to me Todoist is much better at getting new features out and is very customizable, which I why I had switched to it in the first place.

I’ll go with todoist since I have a windows laptop for work and pc for personal use. Still interesting to see the difference. Thank you

Well done, very clear

Peter powiedz, który program jest Twoim zdaniem najlepszy: Things3, Todoist czy OmniFocus 4?

¿Cuál es mejor? Es una pregunta cuya respuesta no pasa por las características (son importantes, pero no se bastan por sí solas para ser una respuesta), sino que principalmente por la metodología de trabajo de cada usuario. En lo personal, después de 2,5 años buscando aplicaciones que sean armónicas con mi metodología (que también mejora), siento que la fortaleza de Things 3 está en su simplicidad estructural y si bien Todoist tiene muchas características y puede adaptarse a distintas metodologías (GTD, la de Carl Pullien para Todoist y otras) no es del todo flexible porque su propia barra lateral le coloca límites a la flexibilidad. En síntesis, la mejor aplicación no pasa por sus características, sino que por la adaptabilidad de la aplicación con la metodología o sistema de trabajo.

I started my journey with Todoist right after watching this video, but removed it a day later. The main reason was the non-native OSX app versus the Things3 app. I do miss functionality in Things, but the user experience is next level.

I think you didn’t mention it but one thing that is wonderful in Things is that there is only to ways a task can leave the inbox: assigning a schedule date and/or a project. And what I want to highlights here is the deadline date won’t let the task leave the inbox. So not just Things has the amazing ability the handle two dates but also there is a defined value of schedule date which is an actionable date which is perfectly aligned with the GTD philosophy and where deadline date is a double feature to let appear the task in your today or upcoming but also has a meaningful way to emerge from other tasks with visual clue. Once you start using Things, it’s hard to go to Todoist. Sorry Windows / Linux users😢

I won’t say Things 3 is better. I will say I preferred it over Todoist.

Excellent comparison video as usual. One additional new feature that Todoist just added is the ability to have AI build your filters. It works amazingly well.

Most important factor for some of us: Things lets you purchase and own it outright. Todoist employs an indentured servitude pricing model that many people can't support. Apps like BusyCal / BusyContacts and Agenda offer a great compromise between ongoing payments and outright ownership. Pay a yearly fee and have access to all the features released within that year. At the end of that term, you own the software in the state that it exists at the time of expiration. Pay again to unlock further updates for the next year (or whatever the term is set to). The devs benefit by the ongoing payments, and the users aren't plagued by ongoing nickel-and-dime hostageware extortion.

Maybe should have added that this is a totally new comparison review, I just assumed it was the same one I watched with a similar title over a year ago.

Thank you for a great review! Can you please share what course platform you’re moving from to Kajabi? I’m thinking between Kajabi and Circle at the moment, but I don’t have an actual course recorded yet. Is it Teachable?

This seems to be an almost religious debate. I have been in both camps but in the end have settled with Thinigs. Although I miss the calendar integration- I find the interface in ToDoist inconvenient and overly complex. The question of integrating with a calendar or not seems to remain a cointoss. On the altar of simpicity, I set blocks of time on my calendar for clearing committed to-do's but keep the list and the organization in Things. I have been focusing on simplifying my systems which also argued for Things. But in the end, while it seems really ODD- the clear and uncluttered interface in Things is way more straightforward to use. Thanks for the Cheat Sheet Peter!

Hi Peter, do you feel like Todoist start dates is finally going to give it the feature which will make it your preferred task manager of choice? I think Things 3's unrivalled deadline feature was the one really killer feature which I always missed from Todoist, but not enough to make me switch permanently to Things, because Todoist has just about everything else you could need.

This detailed comparison between the two apps is fantastic. Thank you. Todoist intrigues me, but this video has made me confident that I should stick with Things. HOWEVER, I wish desperately that Things would add document attachment & some font/size control. Is there any hint that a Things 4 might be in development?

I dont know if Things saw this video and decided to knock out low hanging fruit but they seem to have a few of the things you said they didnt like adjusting the font size in the app settings. Or manybe this is a Sonoma update?

Hey... to capture web pages, mail etc... with Things, just turn on the feature on the app’s options. Once enabled just do the key combination and he captures you all by generating texts and links.

Does anyone know if they added a due date and due by feature yet to todoist

Thanks for the video. How did you turn on that "Completed" tab in the side-nav?

Things is for personal use, Todoist is for sharing and teams. Both are great

Hi Peter, sometimes I feel that despite all the positive features of these apps, I can easily spend more time sorting the app than actually getting the tasks in it done. A nice, not quite minimalist option for me is Reminders. However, it drives me nuts that I cannot find a way to keep reoccurring tasks from appearing until closer to the date. I have looked around the net and it does not appear that Apple has included this in the app. Being a glass-half-fill kind of guy, I am hoping that something that most other apps have will be included in IOS17. Lastly, I am very much looking forward to you making a video about the IOS17 version of reminders as it seems like it might have had a long overdue makeover. Love your channel btw - really appreciate your work.

How do you distinguish whether you are using a project or a task with subtasks in Todoist?

what about tick tick?

Todoist knows two kind of dates: due dates (as mentioned in the video) and reminder dates. That makes it quite flexible. I think you missed that reminder feature.

What are your thoughts on TickTick? Do you think Things 3 can be used purely for personal reminders? I'm not a content creator or have any projects...

what about google task ??????????/

There's a plug-in for Things, to grab the website as well?🤔

So is tick tick not in the conversation for the best one out there then?

After ClickUp and other similar applications of this kind Todoist, Things 3 look and feel like children who accidentally got into university and were left without parents.

Reminders

OmniFocus !!!!M

Not relevant for me.. Windows users. Todoist wins hands down across all platforms

Tick tick is the best

I'm wondering to know why when you shown that Todoist can add a website as a task you didn't shown that Things 3 can do the same thing with the Opt+Ctrl+Space with the Quick Entry auto fill feature. And I follow every single post of Todoist on Reddit and they don't have a plan to add a deadline date in their app. They plan to add a duration like you said but not a deadline, second date. Also, that would be great if you would show what is on you Anytime filter in Todoist except if it is reserved to your course subscribers. The way I understand Things 3, here is my Anytime filter: (overdue | today | no due date | @Anytime) & !@Someday & !subtask My Someday is super easy compared to: @someday & !subtask Why I exclude subtasks? Because I have many tasks with a lot of sub-tasks and I don't want to clutter my interface with them. I almost never schedule sub-task so this is not a problem. My main task always has a "next action" task so every time I complete it, I update the main task based on that result. I'm a Windows programmer but I have a Mac with Logitech Mx Key and Mx Master mouse which give me the ability to switch between devices near like if they would be one PC but when I say "near", I say, it's not like if it would be one PC. Like many other, I would say that Things 3 works perfectly with Bear in term of minimalism and beautiful design. Bear will on next Tuesday release the very awaited version 2.0 of their application. That would be nice if Things 3 would do the same thing. But if I want to be 100% honest, if you don't share tasks with other, except the ability to complete a recurring task before that date and resize the font of the application, this application is perfect. I have both Things 3 and a Todoist pro subscription (Yes, this is definitively not productive .... but it's fun!) and I would say that Things 3 is way much functional than Todoist and don't forget that there are constantly new bugs in Todoist where in Things 3, I don't even remember one in 10 months of full use. Anyways, it's always a pleasure to way your videos :)

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