Things is a personal task management application for Mac OS X

Mac OS X

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 made by Cultured Code, a software startup based in Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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, Germany

Germany

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. Its 1.0 release was on January 6, 2009. Things received a 4.5 of 5 review in Macworld, and was awarded an Editors Choice Award ("Eddy").

Main features

Things allows tasks to be subdivided into several sections, which correspond to parts of the Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done is an organizational method created by productivity consultant David Allen, described in a book of the same name....

 methodology:

Collect

• Inbox is used to collect tasks which have not been filed in a specific place yet.

Focus

• Today highlights tasks which are due on the current day or are intended to be completed that day.
• Next is an overview of upcoming tasks in all of the program's areas and projects.
• Someday is used to catalogue tasks which need to be done, but are not time critical.
• Scheduled contains recurring and delayed tasks and projects.

Organize

• Projects are collections of tasks related to a specific larger task.
• Areas can be used to collate tasks which correspond to a similar theme.

Additional features

• Quick entry allows users to add tasks via a small window which can be activated within any program using a global keyboard shortcut
  Keyboard shortcut
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• Tags let users further describe tasks using the popular tagging
  Tag (metadata)
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   organisation paradigm.
• Team collaboration allows users to assign tasks to other team members.
• iCal
  ICal
  iCal is a personal calendar application made by Apple Inc. that runs on the Mac OS X operating system. iCal was the first calendar application for Mac OS X to offer support for multiple calendars and the ability to publish/subscribe calendars to WebDAV server....
  
   synchronisation
• Logbook lets users view all completed tasks in one view.
• Dock badging allows users to see how many items are due on the current day by looking at the application's dock icon.

iOS version

Cultured Code has released a mobile version of Things, which is available for the iPhone

IPhone

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, iPod touch

IPod touch

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, and iPad

IPad

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. The desktop version can synchronize tasks with the mobile versions of Things over a Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi

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network.