Some time's things have to be done, and the to-do's are already in your to-do app, to make perfect sense to then allow time-blocking within that same application eliminating you having to constantly check your calendar. Now todoist and ticktick have two-way integration that allow you to view meetings for the day and add in high priority to-do that you can block out time with. The little calendar view things has USE to be an advantage and since the release hasn't ever been updated. This also stops me from missing any steps in a build that I may have forgotten to add to things.Ģ-way calendar integration - this is a funny one. Ticktick and many others allow for saving templates making new projects a breeze. Templates - Things labels itself as a project management system, and if you use it for that use case you'll find yourself making the same old massive project list pretty often maybe with a few changes. Through my trials of trying many other products, almost every single one had some amazing features that would make life easy - in the end I actually ended up settling on TickTick which is a product that I tried a while ago but has since had a lot of polish. things are very unique and powerful - but their lack and stubbornness of adding features, or at least trying to accommodate customers issues crates a very stagnant product that hasn't kept up with the times. The driving factor for this suggestion is myself and many others are starting to drift to other solutions. They have implemented it already for a few things like sending email tasks and URL's - but these are pretty weird things to have hidden away anyway if you ask me given you can choose to paste a URL or send an email regardless. This is something I think the things team really needs to start exploring. As an added bonus because things is a OTP the more intensive scale-ups could be additional small charges per feature - kind of like what notability does. This is really powerful, it allows the app to stay trim and clutter-free for the user that just needs simple to-do's, but then gives scale-up options that can turn this into a project management system. Time's on software has changed though, and one cool thing a lot of products are doing is adding these requested features as an option that needs to be turned on in the preferences menu. I've seen products plagued by their own ambitions to add every single little request to please a small minority of people - that not every other person needs, leading to a clunky UI. Sure we get optimizations and bug fixes and there has been a handful of things added that I could count on one hand - but things mantra has always been more is less.īeing in software myself, the more is less approach I admire. In the years that I've owned things there really hasn't been much change from a user experience perspective. There were a few times where I would see what else was out there due to limitations factors of things, but the other solutions always had their own big downfalls and so I always came back. I've used things 3 across iPhone, Mac and iPad for quite a few years now. This isn't a diss thread, I still think Things is incredible and the reason for me evening bothering to write this is in hopes that the team may take some feedback on board and entice myself and others back. So I wanted to provide some constructive feedback on Things 3 since slowly finding an alternative.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |