(Repeating tasks are also implemented through a master copy that lives in Scheduled.) Scheduled is a way of postponing concern about a task to a definite date when that date arrives, the task will automatically be highlighted or, if you prefer, moved to Today.Someday is for tasks you’re not ready to worry about yet.Inbox is a holding tank for new tasks without assigning a level of commitment yet.On the left side of the window is a sidebar containing “levels of commitment” to which a task can be assigned: Tags can be hierarchical, so a task that is assigned a child tag also implicitly is assigned that tag’s parent. A task can also be made repeating, which basically means it will generate a copy of itself, either at some regular interval or after a copy is completed the interface for making and editing a repeating date is impressive. You can enter this as text or using a month-based calendar display. You can’t use styled text, but you can drag a file from the Finder (or a URL, or a message from Mail) into the note area to get a hyperlink that opens it. And that’s basically all! But if you want to, you can attach further information, such as: It has a checkbox so you can mark it completed, and you can drag it around in the Things window. Things Descriptive - A task in Things is minimally just a word or phrase specifying what you want to accomplish. And that flexibility is the whole point: Things gives you a few elementary tools, and you combine them the way you want to. But it can also implement something very like a full-fledged GTD system. It can be used in the very simplest way, with the most basic organization, like assigning a task a priority value or a vague target date. It understands due dates and has a very good notion of repeating events. Its interface is bright, clean, and simple. The nice thing about Things, from Cultured Code (a development house based in Stuttgart, Germany), is that it combines aspects of all of these. (ToDo! doesn’t run on Mac OS X, and I bet most of you don’t even remember what a “desk accessory” was you can get a notion of ToDo!’s simple, clean interface from the screenshots of Omicron’s ToDo X, which is modeled after it.) Simple to-do list programs, such as Ambrosia Software’s ToDo! desk accessory. I also use a calendar program, Remember? (see “ Remember? Not Forgotten,” 30 June 2003), that tells me when an event is upcoming, and is smart about events that repeat at regular intervals. In recent years, I’ve tried some applications dedicated to the elaborate Getting Things Done ( GTD) model of organizing your to-do list, such as Thinking Rock (see “ Get a Piece of the Thinking Rock,” 9 October 2006) and OmniFocus (see “ OmniFocus Willing, But Not Quite Ready, To Help Get Things Done,” 30 April 2008). #1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.
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