How I manage my life using ‘Things’

As soon as I started running my second company, I knew I needed to step up my task management game. Post-it notes across my office wall and short written to-do lists in my notebook weren’t enough anymore to get a complete overview of what I wanted to get done, and what things other people needed from me to unblock them.

After giving about a dozen different apps a try, I’ve been using Things for more than 3 years now, and it literally controls my life. It’s the first app I open in the morning, and prepping my Things todo list for the next day is one of the last things I do at night.

In this post, I want to highlight some of the things I love about Things.

Why Things?

• Lovely UI design, and amazing UX
  I love the gestures on iPhone that let you rapidly set a date for a to-do, create a new to-do in the inbox, or select multiple to-dos. The keyboard shortcuts on Mac are even better. And it’s one of my favourite apps to use in dark mode, because it just looks so good!
• Simple and stable sync
  Nothing is more annoying than trying to figure out why some to-dos haven’t synced between your iPhone and Mac, or getting popups about sync conflicts. That’s never the case with Things, it just always seems to work, making sync something that you forget even happens.
• So many layers
  Even though Things looks very simple when you first start using it, it allows for a lot of complexity and flexibility in how you order your to-dos. One of…