The brilliance of this Apple Design Award-winning to-do app is that it helps you focus on the tasks you need to complete now, while making you comfortable hiding tasks that can wait.
What we love: Categorising to-dos with a start date so they automatically pop into the app’s Today view when needed. (Things can also differentiate evening tasks, if you like.) Need to track a multistep task? Embed a checklist in the Notes section.
Quick tip: Easily add formatting to a task’s Notes section using Markdown. To create a header, for example, start a line with #. Or to italicise and highlight words, surround them with a * or two colons, respectively.
Meet the creator: According to CEO and founder Werner Jainek of developer Cultured Code, “unrivaled simplicity” is key to Things 3. While many apps tout new features in their updates, he says, Things 3 focuses on “making the concepts that we’ve had in the app even simpler.”