A big update for the Quick Find feature is here, with new ways to navigate Things and quickly view important data.

Quick Find – New Lists

Things’ Quick Find feature makes navigating the app feel light and easy. If you’ve been using it for awhile, you’re probably quite adept at hopping from project to project, or into your Upcoming schedule, or into your “Errands” tag list, and so on.

We’ve now extended Quick Find further with some great new lists that provide helpful perspectives on your data. To jump into these lists, simply type their name into Quick Find:

• Deadlines – all your upcoming (or passed 😱) deadlines, neatly sorted.
• Repeating – all your repeating to-dos in one, convenient place (finally!).
• Tomorrow – a nice focused list to plan tomorrow, today.
• All Projects – an overview of all your big goals.
• Logged Projects – an overview of your past achievements.

For those of you geeking out on Things URLs – yes, they’re supported 🤓

While technically not a list, note that you can also type “Settings” (or “Preferences”) to quickly get there. No more digging for that Settings button!

Quick Find – Recents

Sometimes, if you’re deep down in a list, accessing Quick Find can be quite a journey – you have to scroll all the way back to the top to invoke it. No more! Now just tap the list’s title and you’re ready to go.

Better yet, Quick Find now shows your recently-viewed lists, so you can hop around without even typing, which is particularly great on iPhone.

Quick Find – Headings

Many of you pointed out that projects’ headings should be found when you search for them – and of course, that makes sense! So all your headings are now included.

Of course, their inclusion in Quick Find doesn’t just help you locate them – it allows you to navigate to them, making your movements around the app more precise.

A few more things…

We’ve also snuck in a few other small-but-great improvements that we know some of you will really appreciate:

• You can now see the date when an item was created or completed with a new Get Info option.
• The following prefixes are now recognized as bullets and stripped out when pasting into to-do lists or checklists: •, *, - [ ]
• When typing the time on systems set to a 12-hour clock, the date parser now chooses AM/PM more intelligently (and offers both options in some cases).
• On Mac, you can now hold down Cmd when clicking a link to open it in the background.
• On Mac, when inside an area or the new All Projects list, you can now insert a project with a button in the toolbar or Touch Bar.
• And finally, we’ve increased the sidebar width on larger iPad Pros to accommodate those longer project titles 🙌🏻

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Things 3.11 is available for download now on Mac, iPad, and iPhone. We hope you’ll enjoy these improvements.

From all of us here at Things, Happy Holidays! Thanks for a great year, and see you in 2020.

We’ve just released Things for Mac 3.10, which brings full compatibility for the latest version of macOS.

This update contains a few tweaks and fixes to ensure that everything runs smoothly on the new OS. Note also that it’s now possible to automatically switch to Dark Mode at sunset. Just go to View → Appearance and make sure it’s set to Automatic.

Our Reminders integration on the Mac has seen the same overhaul as on iOS. And we’ve built an import feature so you can migrate an entire Reminders database over to Things (go to File → Import).

Things 3.10 requires macOS 10.13 or later, and is available for download now.

iPadOS has just been released, and Things has three great new features you should try out: Multiple Windows, a Home Screen Widget, and Conversational Shortcuts.

Multiple Windows on iPad

One of the great things about working on a Mac is that you can open multiple Things windows to view more than one list at a time. Today – after you upgrade to iPadOS and Things 3.10 – you can do it on your iPad, too.

Opening a second window is easy. Just tap & hold Things’ icon in the dock, then drag it to the side of your screen. Et voila – two windows! Now you can drag & drop between them to get organized.

If your iPad has a physical keyboard, Things is a real powerhouse with lots of shortcuts. Today we’ve added three more for controlling your windows.

⌘ CmdCtrlN – new window
⌘ Cmd` – switch between two windows
⌘ CmdW – close window

If you want to see all currently open windows, just tap & hold Things’ icon and choose Show All Windows. From here, you can also swipe a window upwards to close it.

See Today on your Home Screen

iPadOS also introduces a great new layout for the Home screen, which can now display pinned widgets. We’ve tweaked Things’ widget and it looks great in both Light and Dark Modes.

Conversational Shortcuts

There’s also an exciting new feature this year called conversational shortcuts: a new way to create to-dos by speaking to Siri.

To create a conversational shortcut, use Things’ Add To-Do action in the Shortcuts app. But instead of entering a title for your to-do, simply set it to Ask Each Time.

Now when your shortcut runs, Siri will ask you: “What’s the title?”

This is a simple shortcut, but it’s a fantastic way to create to-dos without typing a thing. And of course you can easily augment it by having Siri Ask Each Time for other things, such as which list to save your to-do in, what tag it should have, and so on.

Plus!

Of course, all the great features that came to iPhone last week are now available on iPad, too:

• Dark Mode integration to switch Things’ appearance at sunset.
• The new Share Extension that lets you target a list.
• Accessibility improvements with VoiceOver and Voice Control.
• A new Reminders importer for migrating to Things.
• And support for the new system-wide gestures for editing text.

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Things 3.10 is packed with features we think you’re going to love, and you can get it now for iPad and iPhone. An update for macOS Catalina is also in the works, and that should arrive in October.

Over the the past few months we’ve been working on Things 3.10, a big update with great new features for iOS 13 and iPadOS. It introduces Actions for Siri Shortcuts, Multiple Windows on iPad, Dark Mode integration, and more.

Today we’ll focus on everything that’s new for iPhone. The update for iPad will come on September 24 with the launch of iPadOS.

Siri Shortcuts

Siri Shortcuts has received a big overhaul in iOS 13 and you can do some cool new things that were previously not possible.

If you already know how the Shortcuts app works, by all means, jump right in and start playing with the new actions we’ve provided. There’s a lot you can do!

If you’ve never created a shortcut before, you’ll find a page in Things’ settings with some suggestions to get you started. You can also create a shortcut directly from there.

Chain Things actions together to create powerful shortcuts.

The true power of Things’ new actions, however, will be unleashed in a few days when Apple enables a new feature called “conversational shortcuts”. You’ll then be able to have a conversation with Siri – while your shortcut runs – and dictate the title of your to-do, when you want to do it, and so on. Things 3.10 already includes support for this, and it will automatically become functional with iOS 13.1 on September 24. Stay tuned for a more in-depth exploration of what’s possible.

Update: Conversational Shortcuts are now functional.

Dark Mode

Things turned to the dark side last year, but now that iOS has joined it, they shall together rule the galaxy and...

Ahem... Things now fully integrates with the new system-wide Dark Mode on iOS, which kicks in at sunset. Of course, you can override the system setting if you like, and you can still choose between a Dark or Black appearance.

Things can now go dark at sunset.

New Share Extension

We’ve changed the way you share to Things from other apps. When you tap the Share button, you’ll now find Things in the row of colored icons. If you don’t see Things, tap “More” at the end of the row to enable it.

You’ll also notice it has a new look, and lets you directly choose a list to save your to-do in.

Things’ new Share Extension. You can now choose a list for your to-do.

Accessibility Support

It’s inspiring to see the effort Apple puts into accessibility features for iOS. VoiceOver can read out the interface for you, while Voice Control is the latest improvement for people with physical limitations. We’ve now overhauled many areas in Things to make sure they play well with both of these technologies.

And more

We’ve made sure that iOS 13’s new text editing gestures work great (cut, copy, paste), as well as undo and redo. See Apple’s documentation to learn more about how they work.

There’s also a new Reminders importer to migrate all data from Reminders to Things, and we’ve overhauled the mechanism for displaying Reminders in Things’ Inbox.

Finally, Things 3.10 works great on the new iPhone 11 models and the new Apple Watch Series 5. Things also now requires iOS 12 or later, and watchOS 5 or later.

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Things 3.10 is available for iPhone now – we hope you enjoy it! Stay tuned for multiple window support, coming to an iPad near you on September 24.