Things
Launched 2009
76 features found available
In their words
Things is the award-winning personal task manager that helps you plan your day, manage your projects, and make real progress toward your goals. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for Things:
$49.99 one time payment (Mac)
$9.99 one time payment (iOS)
$19.99 one time payment (iPad)
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
Display option where the editor shows black background with white text
The light/dark setting of the OS can control whether light or dark layout
AI integrations offered by the app or a first-party plugin.
Tasks from notes can be viewed on a calendar
A calendar on which tasks can be viewed is provided in the app
App will import existing events from an external calendar (e.g., Google Calendar) and show them within the app
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
The company has a specified URL at which users can discuss the product and ask questions in a format where answers can be upvoted to pinpoint the best one
What measures are taken to ensure customer data remains private, even to employees of the companies themselves?
Documented claim that all note data is encrypted at rest, on the server
An explicit policy describes how security is implemented, and what access employees have to data.
A documented claim exists that note content will not be accessed by employees
Notes can exist purely on the local file system of the device, without syncing
Note content can be created such that even a user who gained access to the note app's cloud database (employee or intruder) couldn't decrypt content (i.e., they couldn't obtain a usable decryption key even if possessing the database contents)
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
a vertical bar formatted to the left of the selected text allows for an indented "quote" styling
dotted points are used at the beginning of a paragraph to assemble unordered lists
A sub-list contained within an unordered list
A formatting text style that slants the letters evenly to the right
Numbers are used at the beginning of the line to assemble ordered lists
What functionality specific to images is possible?
Text or handwriting from within an image can be inserted into the note body
What features are provided for interoperability between apps? How much lock-in is there?
An entire account can be deleted (including all notes and personal data) without emailing the company
App automatically syncs note & image data to the cloud without implementing extensions, and without signing up for a secondary account on a storage provider
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
A syntax exists to make numeric or date calculations within the app
Date and time can be evaluated and inserted into a note
Hotkeys can be remapped from their default values
File can be drag-and-dropped into app to create a note, or a file can be dragged into an import directory to become a note
Emails can be forwarded to an email address that will create a new note w/ the email content, or append the email content to an existing note
It's possible to setup callbacks to external services when a note changes
Which login types are supported?
Features specific to the mobile experience
Task content can be viewed from outside the app via native iOS widget
The mobile app provides a way to search for text of a note while inside of that note
When picking the "Share with..." option from an iOS app, the app exposes a means for sending content to the app
How well can the app function without internet access?
Which platforms are officially supported?
An iPad app (separate from iOS app) has been published to App Store
An installable app is available that isn't a Progressive Web App or thin Electron wrapper
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
It's possible to create a link from one note to another note
A list of all notes containing a word or phrase can be produced
Using whatever mechanism the app provides to organize notes (e.g., tags, folders), can that mechanism be used as a full text search filter?
A menu to view available keyboard shortcuts is located within the app
The app provides a means by which to arrange notes such that they can be browsed through a tree structure (e.g., tags, folders)
A note can be in multiple navigation hierarchies concurrently (i.e., because it has multiple tags)
A hotkey is available that can be used to access an input box that searches notes, and a note can be selected from that list without using the mouse
The quick search shortcut can apply a filter to the results for tags or folders
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
Multiple sibling tasks or checkboxes can be marked complete en masse
A native integration to translate an external email into an actionable task directly into the note app
A specific date and time at which a task is scheduled to be addressed
A hotkey allows entering a new note or task while in the midst of using any desktop app
It's possible to move a batch of tasks from one note to another using drag and drop
Child tasks can be defined such that completing or hiding the parent task applies that same operation to all child tasks
Task hierarchies, including parent tasks and their sub-tasks, can be dragged and repositioned within different sections or lists
Set tasks to repeat at a chosen interval after each completion (e.g., exercise every 2 days after you last exercised)
An alert time can be associated with a task, or note, before it is due. (e.g., remind me 1 hour before task is due)
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
Did we miss something?
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