The new OmniFocus 3 features everything you need to seriously get stuff done:. Clarify your goals as Projects, and break them down into manageable Actions.
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Welcome to the unofficial Things subreddit! Rules.No memes, image macros or other irrelevant posts.Don't post/discuss mirrors or torrents of any software.Low-effort content will be removed.No link shorteners such as bit.ly or ad.fly.Keep it clean! Nothing dirty or pornographic.Posts and comments, whether in jest or with malice, that contain racist, sexist, homophobic content, or threats will be removed, regardless of popularity or relevance.Download links for Things:.Not sure about Things?. Hey guys,So I’ve recently decided to really try and stick with a task manager, have previously dabbled with most of the main stream apps.I keep coming back to OmniFocus and Things.For the people who have used both, what made you stick with one over the other? I don’t have complex projects, most of my tasks will be home orientated, and I almost feel like OmniFocus is just too much for what I need.But at the same time, I always like to plan for the future, and would rather start using an app which was going to last the distance, than have to switch over down the line.I’m finding Things3 just. Easier at the moment, but that’s because I have minimal tasks and projects.Thoughts?.
I was an avid OF user for a long time, adjusting my workflow, reading other people’s setups, searching here searching there, until I finally came up with a setup that worked for me in OF2.I then thought about taking Things 3 for a spin, and oh my lord, the difference is huge for me.With no offence to anyone, I think that OF is for the users who have tons of task, tons of projects, and their lives basically depend on a solid highly customisable system. I particularly like the custom perspectives of OF and wish they would come to Things, but long shot.Things 3, on the other hand, is butter-smooth, handles drag-and-drop way better than in OF3, clean interface with little distractions, a slick upcoming view, easy date-picker + natural language input, and most recently 3.6 with keyboard shortcut (for iPad) that is the holy grail of keyboard shortcuts, and many more!That being said, Things 3 isn’t perfect, but it’s near that, and I realised I did not need the complexity and the customisability of OF. Add to this that OF3 was not much of an improvement for me, so I was disappointed.tl;dr: Things 3 Omnifocus 3, especially for you since you said you don’t have too many complex projects.
I used OmniFocus for years - began using it in my first year of university back in 2012. Moved over to Things 3 earlier this year and, for a bunch of reasons, I find that Things works so much better for me.There are things from OF that I really miss, such as the in-built review feature, the hierarchical way I could have folders within folders, and (of course) contexts.But I found that the particular way OF is designed to work just didn’t sit right with the way I like to structure my task manager. I mean, I still managed to get along and even enjoy OF over the years, but I eventually realised it wasn’t a good fit for me.There are several reasons I made the switch, but I’ll just focus on 3:. Checklists. Headings.
DesignChecklistsThings 3 has a feature where you can have a checklist within a task. With OF (and the underlying GTD methodology) the idea is that if a task will take more than two actions/steps to complete then it should really be a project. For me, this was just too much overhead. I understand the theory behind it, but it’s just far too complex for my needs.But there are times when it is helpful to have those tasks written down, and the checklist feature scratches that itch. To prepare for my weekly classes, for example, there are usually a bunch of tasks that need to be done. But I don’t like clogging up my task list with small projects like this. So now I can just create a task that says ’Prepare for Trusts Class Week 5’, and have all the tasks I need to do for that hidden away until I need to see them.
HeadingsHeadings are so good, and are pretty much one of the main reasons I moved away from OF. They don’t actually do anything practical, but rather they help me to break down a project mentally. I’ll be moving house soon and if I were still using OF, I would have a project just filled with an endless list of tasks to do with no real visual organisation. If I wanted to, I could make a folder and have a different project for each area, such as ‘Buy New Furniture’, ‘View House A’, ‘Sign Lease Forms’, ‘Hire a Moving Van’, and so on - but this is too complicated!
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With Things, I create a single project with headings for each of these sub-tasks. It’s such a great feature. DesignThings is a legitimately beautiful app. Great to look at, but also a delight to use.
Seriously, I actually enjoy using this app. OF is a workhorse, to be sure, but doesn’t exactly inspire joy when you look at or use it.I hope this helps to answer your question! Feel free to ask any follow up questions if you have any ☺️. This was just too much overhead. I understand the theory behind it, but it’s just far too complex for my needs.You said it all.
I have lots of areas that require more than 2 actions/tasks, but require little effort on my part and do not warrant a project. I currently use Things 3 for personal and testing it for my work. As much as I’ve used and enjoyed OF over the years, I think I will soon make the switch and be fine maybe better?I’ve found that OF almost gets in its own way. I’m also disappointed by the overcrowded iOS app.
I used both and like other redditors, Omnifocus is for people with many tasks and projects, which need to have highly customisable GTD app.I would like to sync between these two apps. I hate Things 3 for macOS and Omnifocus for iOS.
They are in my opinion the most non-intuitive gtd apps.Things 3 for Mac looks like ported version of iOS app and it's focused on touch screen, not mouse and keyboard.OmniFocus for iOS isn't intuitive, because to configure tasks I have to go in single task and select what I want (without any popover, or something, which will make editing tasks faster) and do it with every other task. I’ve used both OmniFocus 2 and Things 3. I tried OmniFocus 3 during its beta period, and I did not like it.
The new icons are ugly, and the workflow for managing your tasks is still pretty bad. Sure, there is batch editing now, but the way the inspector works is incredibly clunky compared to to-do editing in Things 3.There are a couple of reasons I don’t chose Things 3 over OmniFocus.One of the big ones is that I actually like the focus on time in Things 3. Forecast view has gotten better in OmniFocus 3 (due to being able to associate a tag with it), but trying to do a time-based workflow in OmniFocus will always feel like a hack. I like having new to-dos in Today being identified and being able to partition them between Today and This Evening. I also feel the Upcoming view is much nicer than the forecast view in OmniFocus.The other one is that OmniFocus muddles its concepts. I don’t like that projects are used both for projects and also areas (along with folders).
I find it really gets in the way of finding a place for my tasks to live, and whatever I do always feels like a compromise. If I want to have Personal area, I can make it a folder, but where do my non-project Personal tasks live? Personal: Miscellaneous? Personal: Personal?
I could sub-divide my areas, but I find that makes it more difficult to assign tasks in practice. If I make Personal a single-action project, then any actual projects will get buried as action groups.
The way Things handles areas and projects is just right for me.I also don’t like the way OmniFocus handles repeating tasks. Even though OmniFocus 3 has better scheduling options, it still makes the current task the template instead. Things 3 keeps its template separate, which lets you defer the active to-do without messing up your schedule. This may be less of an issue in practice, but I’d still prefer to have a separate template, since completing two tasks independently on different devices is an annoying source of duplicate tasks once they sync.I sometimes miss sequencing from OmniFocus. Being unable to sequence my to-dos in Things 3 makes it difficult for me to go to my contexts to find things to do. I was fully satisfied with Omnifocus. But the latest version is no longer compatible with the database of the version still compatible with El Capitan.
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Unfortunately, Omnigroup decided to stop supporting this OS.It broke my workflow. And Omnigroup probably lost a client because I had to find an alternative.So I decided to see what other companies were proposing in the GTD market.I tried Things 3 a few days ago and was amazed by so much simplicity and efficiency. It perfectly fulfills my needs much better than Omnifocus which has a rather complicated logic and especially a ugly UI.
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