Get Things Done With ‘Things’

It’s a simple process: throw up your thoughts, arrange them, and clean them off.

Photo by Matt Ragland on Unsplash

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with the app ‘Things’ in any way.

There are people in the world whose ability to sort tasks and manage their time is a nightmare. I’m one of them.

My desk at home is always a mess, I’m prone to remember things at the last minute, and I also have very little free time outside my day job.

When I’m at work, it’s an entirely different story. I’m a software engineer, and I treat coding much the same as I treat solving riddles. The coding language doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things — only if the algorithm suits the problem.

I have Parkinson’s Law working for me, I have our company’s task management system, and I’m in a different context because the goal is obvious — implement X by this design. But my personal dreams are not so lucid as those from the company. I want to be a fantasy author, but the road to get there is not so clear.

I’ve tried many apps to get my writing tasks done. I used a notebook; I used the iPhone’s reminders, calendar, and notes. I used other productivity apps, too. But Aside from Agenda — which I liked but didn’t fully connect with — I didn’t find an app that would help me get…