Todoist is more full-featured, letting you set a due date, time, assign tags, and more. While Things lets you save something quickly, it really just wants you to add to your inbox, and then you can sort it out later. To start, the share extension on iOS is so much better. To their credit, Todoist does have some nice features that I would love to see adopted by Things in some way or another. Todoist drew me in with a bunch of features that I wasn’t getting in Things.

The migration wasn’t interesting, as I basically recreated what I needed by hand, and left the history in Things. Was it falling behind? Was I falling behind?! But, something happened in early 2023 where I was noticing a bunch of updates to Todoist, while it felt that Things was not changing much at all.

Over the past three years, I’ve never even looked at another app seriously. My App Store receipts show I bought Things 1.0 back in 2010, and it’s definitely the task manager I’ve spent the most time with since then. I’ve been an ardent Things user for what feels like forever. Here at The Sweet Setup, we like to figure out what great software exists, but the intention is never to have readers switch to whatever app we’re talking about that day. It’s a vicious cycle that just leads to constant transition phases at best, and needless additional costs as you pay for more apps and services at worst. Now, I firmly believe that chasing The Perfect App is a path that leads to madness, since nothing will ever totally satisfy all of your needs. That all fell apart a few weeks after migrating because Todoist was driving me crazy - and ultimately send me running back to Things. This article was originally going to be about how to effectively migrate your tasks and workflows from Things over to Todoist.

This post can only start one way, and that’s with a confession.

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