Initially, I thought I could get used to this new flow, but as I started adding more and more tasks to Things, the difference started to show up. Things 3’s UI based organisational features started becoming annoying after some time since I was accustomed to Todoist’s swift natural language input. However: Things 3’s charm started to wear off as I continued using it Todoist’s desktop app has some keyboard shortcuts, but they are nowhere near what Things 3 supports. I can control and navigate the entire desktop app with just the keyboard. This layout allowed me to look at tasks based on the current half of the day.Īlthough a similar segmentation is possible in Todoist with a filter, it’s not as natural and beautiful as the one in Things.Īnother subtle UX I liked in Things 3 is that unlike Todoist, overdue tasks get pushed to the next day without any bright red warnings.įinally, keyboard shortcuts are wicked good in Things 3. I work on my personal projects in the morning and during the evening - before and after my office hours. What stood out to me in the design is the ability to segregate tasks based on the time of the day.
#Things 3 app trial#
When I installed Things 3’s trial version, I immediately fell in love with the design. It felt like the same web app wrapped inside a container and published as a macOS app. The main problem I had with Todoist was that the macOS app didn’t feel polished. Looking at my stats, I completed around 3600+ tasks with Todoist in one and a half years: All the Todoist karma points I’ve accumulated.Īlthough I had been satisfied with Todoist for quite some time, I was blown away: When I met Things 3 I can add and organise a bunch of tasks in a matter of minutes.Īlthough Todoist offers a ton of other useful features like filters, this one feature was the main reason I stuck to Todoist for so long. This increase in speed is prominent when I’m listing down tasks in bulk. Organising by typing shortcuts is way faster than having to click ten buttons on the screen. I could naturally type in and organise a task the way I want, like this: Using the natural language input in Todoist. On Todoist, however, the natural language input was a complete game-changer. While every app made it super easy to add a task to my list, organising the task into a project, priorities and timing was a multi-step process.įor each task, I had to jump through multiple hoops to get it adequately organised in popular apps like Any.do. My long-standing problem with to-do list apps had been the inability to organise a task on my list quickly.
Let’s start with: Why I chose Todoist in the first place In this post, I’ll talk about what pushed me towards using Todoist in the first place, why I moved to Things 3, and why I switched back. That was until I finally moved back to Todoist last week. Todoist was the first to-do list app I started using seriously.Īfter trying out and failing at so many to-do list apps, Todoist was the one which made sense to me.īut, around the start of 2020, I switched to another to-do list app called Things 3 and had been using it for months.
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