Hello everyone and welcome to the weekly Productivity news segment a brand new segment covering software and all of the updates that you need to
Know so first up in the news is things three now essentially it's things 3.5
now
cultured code the company behind things 3 have released what they call a spit and polish update to their Mac OS and iOS versions
There have been 29 new features and tweaks that they've made to the existing iOS and Mac applications
Including performance bug user feedback and tagging adaptions one of the biggest elements is the brand new collapsible
areas
This is one of the most requested features allowing users to essentially collapse an area where they have projects within them
There are a whole host of additional things in things
3.5 including paste and copy from other applications
things sorry new URL scheme the today widget performance speed updates
Zappy a integrations and a few tweaks to the log book headers and add the minor tweaks
The application is going strength to strength and 3.5 seems like the most stable version yet
Next up on this weekly news
We have to do is to do a star on the brink of releasing a brand new to do.if scheduler
Now Alex from todoist tweeted the new to do is scheduled on mobile will be the next level with a love part emoji face
Now we all know to deuced already has a shed and function called smart sheduled but this is something totally different
This little hint is
essentially a new world of scheduling assigned to duyst and
Let's dive into a few of the things that alex has been mentioning in the comments so in reply to Jill Duffy
One of the team at PC world he said smart schedule is one of the options of the scheduler yes
But we're working on a complete redesign of the schedule interface not particularly focusing on
Smart schedule now. This is super interesting in terms of news with todoist
They haven't really had a huge run of the updates in the last year or so and smart schedule came out in November
2016 now since then Alex been tweeting a couple more things I'm no developer
So I don't know the status of them, but to do this
We'll be releasing the new scheduler future very soon next up on news is Google Tasks so many of you may have heard
Gmail is getting a big redesign now gmail hasn't been redesigned in a fair while and we'll of course that's another story in itself
There are so many hints inside of this Gmail redesign about Google Tasks now
There are be a few leaks in terms of Google Tasks being available
But some of the screenshots have come out although directly not mentioning
We now know the logo at the concept behind it and a few of the mentions of how it'll work
Google while keeping this under wraps for now, but it will essentially take over the likes of maybe even Google keep in the future
But for now it will replace G. Tasks as the main task management function and
Finally here on productivity news we have drafts 5 a brand new application that
succeeds drowse 4
It's a new look in terms of the appearance themes iconography and even the editor design as well
They've got some new
organization options with tags lists and queries and even a new focused most they've also added Siri integration as well as a
universal subscription called drafts Pro which is
$20 per year pretty reasonable now drafts 5 is a massive update in the ecosystem
So I'm gonna pass over to Mac stories
They have created a full review of drawers 5 in description below, which is a really insightful piece?
So hopefully that will give you as much detail - they're brand new drafts 5 anyway guys. Let me know in the comments
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