Comments on: Providing Feedback from within Things

By: Michael Corley

Michael Corley — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:01:05 +0000

Any thoughts on how to backup and restore Things data?

By: Willy van der Meer

Willy van der Meer — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:38:39 +0000

The wiki alpha password that you just emailed to me does not work.
Things can be downloaded from our private wiki:
http://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/
Name: alpha_tester
Password: tidbamaz

I installed Things but I can’t get it up and running. Would be great if you could help me out. Looking forward to use it!

By: Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:42:01 +0000

Great app, being a small shop and wearing alot of hats this is quickly becoming a great goto app for quick todo’s. Can’t wait to see integration with other apps! More of a “would like to have” would be an iPhone variant next year to sync todo’s?!!?

By: Werner

Werner — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:46:18 +0000

@Eric: Things is a very well-behaved Mac OS X application in that it only stores files at locations recommended by Apple. This is all it does, really – we do not install any additional scripts or input managers or the like. So I can’t possibly see how Things could be responsible for the problems you encountered.

For reference, these are all files/folders that belong to Things:
- Obviously, the main application bundle (Things.app)
- Library/Application Support/CulturedCode/Things
- Library/Preferences/com.culturedcode.Things
- Library/Preferences/com.culturedcode.SoftwareUpdate

Once you delete those, there is absolutely no trace of Things left on the system.

Best,
Werner

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:00:34 +0000

Hi, I installed yesterday on my G4 MDD, 10.4.9, and it seems to have borked my computer. Mail started acting funny, and I could reboot only in safe mode. When I deleted all things Things, the computer started running fine again.

Until today, when it happened again.

I can’t find any more Things on my computer. If you have any tips about where to look, please advise. Of course, it may not be Things.

Thanks
Eric

By: frank

frank — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:24:40 +0000

I didn’t realize this was mac only. Perhaps it’s obvious to others. I have a mac I can use for testing, but was looking for something cross platform windows & ubuntu.

regards,

Frank

By: Remko van Hunen

Remko van Hunen — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:07:00 +0000

I found the following bug:

1 create a new task in the inbox
2 type a new tag
3 now click the add sign to create another task
4 the task is saved / the tag is saved as tag
5 the tag is not attached to the task just created
6 with existing tags this works correct

cheers remko

By: Donovan

Donovan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:36:34 +0000

A simple but useful feature would be to have the title on the top bar change with the folder that your in. Currently it just says Things regardless of what folder your in. Fr example, if I’m in the projects folder it would be nice to display it on the toolbar and have it highlighted as it is now.

I have to say this thing is phenomenal guys, great work!

Donovan

By: Alex Blau

Alex Blau — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:57:03 +0000

Sadly, the integrated feedback form doesn’t launch on my version. But I have a couple of problems/suggestions:

1. When I create a to do item with a due date of today, the checkbox disappears.
2. Is there a way to sort the active view of a task list/project?
3. One useful feature would be having a timer we could associate with a task. Taking it a step further, having a project that you could launch with a global timer, with project tasks having timed start and end points tethered to the global time would be really useful for things like following recipes, performing lab work, etc.
4. Is there a way to associate a given task with multiple projects, without having to recreate the task for each project it fits in?
5. Nesting projects would also be a really useful feature. Many of my projects are so large, that it is really helpful to separate them into subprojects.

Thanks for all the great work so far!
alex

By: Joseph Addai

Joseph Addai — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:51:04 +0000

Often times it is necessary to print your todo lists when it would otherwise be impractical to carry around a laptop. It would be nice if the printed results looked somewhat decent. Currently, it looks like a cutoff screenshot of the application. I hope this improves greatly. Otherwise, great app, congrats.