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WWDC 2025 is in the rearview mirror, and it would be honest to say that there was enough to be enthusiastic about it, even with Apple (sensible) bypass his wider Apple Intelligence -Upgrades.
iPad True Window Management was given a great additionWhile the new design language on all platforms will certainly be a big focus in September. But relatively tucked away, almost as a footnote, was the promise of more functions to come Memories – And I might be able to see those functions to leave Things 3.
Let me explain.
Here’s the thing
The ‘Things’ app of the Culture Code is, as everyone who uses it, will tell the Holy Grail of UI design. It is a task manager who looks so good, even Apple itself could not have done better, and it is my go-to-organizational tool for the best part of a decade. It is a powerful tool for anyone who has one of the Best MacBooks and Macs – or an Apple device by the way.
I use the app on my Mac, my iPad, my iPhone and my Apple WatchEven writing down tasks with an action button on my phone. And yet I notice that I am straying from the path. It is not that things 3 is less magical than when I started using it; It’s just that so many rivals have closed the gap.
Things 3 remains an easy place to dump tasks, to submit them in sections and enjoy the serotonin that hit when you check them out. There is nothing wrong with that, but it lacks some important characteristics that the rivals now offer.
There is no shared memory list, so my wife can add things for me to do, and there is no web version either. There is also a lack of ‘real’ Siri integration, which means that I should essentially submit my tasks in memories and she has to synchronize with things 3 if I want them to be dictated.
So – what if I not they synchronize? What if I, you know, Apple’s memories just used to live my life?
The system again intertwined
I use Notion as a database to perform my working life, but things are where my daily things are done. Every night I charge it with tasks for the morning and every morning I start to check them.
But what if my wife needs me to grab something from the store? What if I want to ask Siri via CarPlay to add something to my daily list? These are the kind of things where memories would work great, but that is nothing new. Apple has even brought a lot of work on memories in recent years, so why am I thinking about switching now?
As a writer I am on my guard for AI. Models that have been trained on content that I have worked hard for are always worth keeping in guard, but I acknowledge that machine learning has a lot to offer (and no, I don’t mean that Farthiest Comes Together).
This year, with iOS 26 And MacOS Tahoe (And the various other Apple OS -releases), Apple Intelligence will be integrated into memories, so that it can automatically assess what the next action item should be. Receive confirmation that one of my freelance items has been published? It would be great to have a task popping up to invoice it. Make a note from a meeting? Having the place to send the details afterwards would be super useful.
The app will even be able to work out in an intelligent way in which list your tasks should go into, which means that less time is spent on the right way of the right places.
I may be walking ahead of myself (and I am not even sure if there is an AI functionality in the current beta to test at the moment), but even if it is not memories that I am going (I still don’t like that user interface), I have the feeling that things 3 (or certainly a fourth version) could think more ahead to the update.
What could things add?
Okay, then: cultivated code, do you listen? There are a handful of things that an old user like I would like to see in a potential ‘things 4’.
First of all, I would like to have morning/afternoon/evening if different time slots (at the moment it is only day and evening), which can then make more granularity with ordering tasks possible.
A web app is also a must (some of us use Windows, you know?), While an option for a collaborative list can make things 3 even better for owners of small companies like me. And hey, a Kanban view would mean that I don’t have to take tasks from the concept and throw them in things.
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