Hello everyone and welcome back to another video it is Francesco here
So in this video today, we are chatting things I loved about
Things 3 now I didn't want to actually include it as that title
so it might be slightly different but I'm gonna chat through some of the things that I loved about things 3 stop saying that
so in today's video
I'm gonna run over the features that I particularly loved as well as sort of the micro experiences inside of things 3
They really did draw me in as well as what kept me there to some extent
And things that I sort of compared in my head against to do it
So I'll be showing you my screen in second and we'll be running through to some of those features
so
Of course If you guys don't know I've been using what I used pins 3 for the last
Three months and I'm backward to do this now
Which I did for video 1 but as you can imagine I definitely moved there for something. I wanted a good project experience
So I definitely saw things free as a way to fix that with the deadline function as well as the completion function
I was almost there because it had those functions
No, like I ever mentioned in the comment on the to do is to bank it backward to do this video
He said you were out to do this because of the timing experience and he's a hundred percent, right?
that is a reason I'm back and that's the thing at the biggest flaw that I think things so he didn't have for me so
Let's start out with some of the features and experiences inside of things 3
So Mac and iOS, obviously
I don't recommend that you'd go for specifically one platform because if you get an Android device
You're not gonna be there but the Mac and iOS experience on things story was fantastic
Although I didn't recommend it as I said
it is something that I was very happy with because I have a Mac and
An iOS device so it tend to work great
now the design was some of the one of the things that I
adored inside of things free the sort of clear design as well as to focus on like just
removing anything unnecessary
Was really attractive to me and I found the experience super easy to use now
That's something that I don't think a lot of the bigger applications like to do or OmniFocus sort of
And Omni and things three actually delivers on that a really beautiful design
Making it easy to use which is fantastic
now the one thing I
particularly enjoyed in the iOS experience is once the Mac one to some extent is the
Gestures and being able to quickly add some into your inbox just by dragging your thumb over
Or even being able to add it to your timeline not timeline. Sorry your task list
Just made it. So gorgeous views. It was one of the best experience and best experiences
I've used in terms of gestures now when I actually got back on todoist
I started like dragging myself over in the attempt to dry that
And of course a no prevail
because they don't have the jesters experience and some of the things that I wish to do is would bring in because it would make
That iOS application so much easier to experience and use on a daily basis
One of the final notes on the gestures is when you are able to multi select stuff
You just sort of tap tap tap tap tap and bring it along and multi select it and make a multiple action on it
what I particularly like about the iOS experience is it almost at some point was like using a desktop experience because they
condense the experience in a way that did make an intrusive but made it really easy to use now moving on to another feature this
Evening tab was a brilliant function
I find myself for example during the day getting all my workday stuff done
And then I have a few things for the evening whether there's social stuff or actual work stuff
There wasn't really a way that I could separate that into doers and of course then through delivered that would someone called this evening it
Separates it from today but gives you this different section to plan up stuff there
So for example if me and Becca had some work stuff to do or even look at how space staff or something like that
We could easily add back to this evening area and be able to have more
context or even like when I'm going shopping on the way home to hand back in this evening makes it just and separates it from
The work you don't want to see like what especially for me like a use personal professional together
Like five really awesome work tasks and then one shopping list and I'm like, what? Why are you there?
So we're moving on to calendar calendar events
You have the ability inside of things for you to add calendar vents to the top of today as well as upcoming
This was one of the features not really did it enjoy what I started, but I loved by the end of it
It's a really intuitive feature, especially if you're looking to remind yourself of meetings, and you don't necessarily want to add them to your calendar
Sorry - your task list
now
Of course that can be too intrusive like maybe some people don't want a fix tab at the top
To ruin that sort of things through experience and that's probably what my first go-to was
But I really enjoyed the calendar function and I wish something to do his tab is a fixed option
But in is an optional option - so the next thing is the windows experience, and this is not platform Windows Windows
So in things free, you can create multiple tabs or windows
Now this was great particularly when it came to planning
so for example
I've dumped loads of stuff for my inbox and then dragged it over to my upcoming
- plot in items and then I would do the same with today and I can reshuffle my week fairly fast
Now we do this on a Thursday like Thursday is my day where I pretty much cordon a my week ahead
and it just gives me a bit of time to sort of get ready for that week ahead in advance and
what I've tend to do in what I did with things free is
plot that all out using the upcoming tab and having the inbox happen today to have open so I had like
Multiple things and great thing is you can drag them across to those things
It doesn't damage the experience and that's available on Mac and I highly recommend
That inside of the experience now projects was sort of a County climax
I used projects for a while, but then I felt after a couple of days that I actually didn't need projects projects
How are what pretty amazing side of things through you have the deadlines abilities as well as a whole host of date functions due date
Functions and it looked great on that left hand side, especially for the wedding like we were plotting out tasks inside of there
Particularly just because it had that deadline function as well as headers like you could create headers inside there
That's nothing. It can't do it inside it to do it
So it was sort of fucking anticlimax in the end
I came there for projects and didn't really find much value and subtasks was particularly something
I really enjoyed of course notes I was talking about there's a bit of a sort of confusion about notes, but some task was great
I really do applaud that experience. It was a lot less
Clunkier than todoist and it just was so much easier to input them as well
so if you want a
Visual overview as well or something to take away of all of these features. I loved I did a medium post
So I'll put that one description below and it has all of those nine or eight
Features that are enjoyed about things through zoom talking about the non features a sort of experience sort of the inbox
That was one of the features that really bugged me. So for example when I want to add a new task to the
Bottom of my inbox because that's tend to be where I process
So I start from the top and finish in the bottom and slowly work through
Because the top indicates the dates and you rounded the furthest away and the newest date should be at the bottom
But it was the opposite
whenever I did something to my inbox or a note it would go to the top and I'd be like I won this at the
bottom because I'm gonna slowly process it down because that's
Chronologically how I did it again?
I have all the chronological functions inside of things three that I didn't particularly like
So it's something that I was aware of from the beginning
The other thing as well is the anytime tab, I really didn't use this that much of course
I used some day maybe or some day folder a little bit
But the only time I really couldn't get my head around of course
I could have googled it and learnt it but I really didn't see any need and I wish there was an ability to hide it
If there was let me know in the comments below, but I pretty sure I can find it
So in things 3.4, which was released during my experience, they added something called areas and not areas
They actually had that before that the ability to pull your projects into areas in a neat format
And this was a game changer because projects were really messy along that left-hand side
And that was one of the biggest requests from users to make it so much neater and make did and it looked a lot better
The only other sort of pain point that I had during my experience
Was that when I was doing planning and that Windows layouts sort of bring in the windows there
I had occasional question and I think that's because
having lots of the experience
Multiplied or duplicated across the screen can be very testing on the application, especially when it's having to communicate with all of those windows
so again
I don't
Comment' having more than two windows open in the things for experience and I definitely hone that in by the end of the month
So some of the stuff I under utilize the natural language input
Of course, I learn this inside of to do this not really learning it. It's like tomorrow at 2:00 p.m
Or Tom at 2:00 p.m
And it comes up but this was available in things really something I totally didn't bother taking the time out to learn again
I would say to some extent
Thus it the same with the anytime tab and also some day
because I could have learned that and could have made mine smoke so much better because I could have
formatted and utilized those
Extra folders some of the small things that I really enjoyed is the progress pie bars when you're working on a project
These pie bars come up and you basically hadn't seen indicating how fun you've got with your project or whether it's being completed now
It's a really nice addition and I would say iconography was well above todoist in this experience
I noticed I'm working on iconography right now
it probably will change but the experience was so good in terms of making it easy to use and just
beautiful
so it's like come back to it gestures will real gamechanger experience again a very small thing but
Everything just sort of shown in the iOS application particularly
and also
whenever you enter the new date and things through I've really liked the way that it said you have new you have three new to
Do's in a yellow sort of box and it just made it beautiful
So as you can imagine things free was good learn learning lessons for me
I'm good in my next video will be about to do a set up
so you'll see my sort of changes in terms of making things minimal to some extent and also I
Don't not endorse things right? I actually endorse it. I would say it's a really strong application, especially if you're looking for a
Personal sort of advanced application that helps you to
Organize your tasks and you stick to some only being up to share with yourself
As I said, I never used to do this ready to share tasks
So this was why I wanted to use things through because I knew that didn't have that function and it actually excels without that function
So the only other thing I want to mention is if you're looking at the things through experience
It is expensive if you're looking at iOS and Mac, I think it's like $65 collective include the pricing below
But it's quite an expensive
Outlet, like if you want to set yourself up on it for a day or and you want to trial it it's quite expensive
So I would recommend reading as much as you can around it read the reviews
I'll include my reviews as well that other people's reviews below and we're looking to do a review on key productive YouTube channel
Sorry, the key productive calm web type that allows you to go into further detail on things any of you guys
Hopefully you enjoyed this video
Let me know in the comments below how you're using things to read or to do list. If it's great to hear I
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Make sure have a great week key productive and see you guys very very soon
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