The biggest new feature of Things 0.9.1 is native printing. Until now we only had Mac OS X’s built-in printing support. But since Things’ to-do lists are optimized for the screen rather than paper, the results were less than desirable.
When choosing Print from the File menu, Things 0.9.1 will construct a dedicated print document which is displayed in an extra window. Before continuing with Mac OS X’s standard print dialog users get a chance to customize the document in the following ways:
- Decide whether to print the entire list or just selected items.
- Change the font size. Note that since the print document on the left does not (yet) represent the actual width of the paper, the text may appear to be larger than the actual result on paper.
- Decide about the visibility of notes. If your list contains long notes that you do not want to print entirely, you can also choose to limit them to 8 lines of text.
Clicking the Print button will then invoke Mac OS X’s standard print dialog. Particularly interesting is the Layout pane. Using the Layout pane you can arrange multiple pages on one sheet of paper.
As an improvement we plan to combine our dialog with some options from the standard print dialog to create what Apple calls the Simplified Print Dialog. The idea is to have one single simple and uncluttered dialog that suffices in most situations.
Things 0.9.1 also contains the following fixes and improvements (from the Release Notes):
- Repeating items. Fixed a bug that resulted in “after completion” option not working properly.
- Repeating items. Resuming a previously paused item no longer crashes Things.
- Quitting Things before closing an edited item no longer results in loosing the most recent changes.
- The Things library is writen to disk more often now (after each edit).