Things 3

Productivity

Full task management for Things 3 on Mac

• View inbox, today, and upcoming tasks
• Create tasks with checklists and tags
• Move tasks between projects and areas

What You Can Do

View tasks — Inbox, today, upcoming views; search across all lists

Browse organization — List all projects, areas, and tags

Create tasks — With title, notes, due date, deadline, tags, checklist items, project/heading assignment

Update tasks — Change title, notes, tags, move between projects, mark complete or canceled

Append/prepend notes — Add to existing task notes without overwriting

Dry-run preview — See what will change before applying modifications

Dual mode — Read operations query local DB (fast); write operations use URL scheme (reliable)

Try Asking

"Show me all tasks in my Today list"

"Create a task 'Review Q1 budget' in Finance project, due Friday, tagged #urgent"

"List all my active projects"

"Search for tasks mentioning 'client meeting'"

"Add a checklist: test deployment, update docs, notify team"

"Move 'Update website' to the Marketing project"

"Append meeting notes to the 'Project sync' task"

"Mark 'Old proposal' as canceled (dry-run first)"

Pro Tips

macOS only — requires Full Disk Access for the calling app

Use dry-run (\