Um comentário em Americano sobre o Things 3
Um jéca tava reclamando de algum botão da cor que ele não concorda, mais pra esquerda do que ele acha que deveria... Ai eu gentilmente respondi.
Mas acabou a gentileza.
That's true! Thanks for the clarification! ❤️ It's an application of the same principle I spot everywhere on Things 3, it's literally everywhere. It's all about intentionality. The app value is that it outsources the cognitive cost of intentionality, it can be put. It manages this for you as the user. Things wants to make sure that every interaction is intentional. It deliberately creates friction between different actions, priming/guiding the user to do one thing at a time. For instance, do this exercise: In the quick entry, create a task to the inbox. Count each action and pay attention to the buttons you need to press. Notice how it's very fast and direct: Ctrl+Space –> typing –> Enter
Then, open quick entry, but this time, set when, project, tags, deadline, due date (everything...)
Notice that all the possible ways to set each of these you are being explicit and doing one at a time. If you use the mouse, you have to click the tag icon, select the tag, and the coolest thing is: when clicking the desired tag, the focus goes to the tag list! So you have one deliberate action to start setting tags and one deliberate action to finish editing. It's very subtle, but it's there! (Like everything on Things)
You can go the keyboard shortcut route. The same principle applies.
One other example that will help illustrate this very well, is how you set the project of a task. If you look closely, there's no such thing as setting the project of a task. The action is called MOVE. Things is opinionated, and show it here. If the action is MOVE, it means the design expects the task to be created somewhere and then moved somewhere else. What it means in the very practice is that if you go GTD, it's seamless, since GTD mirrors the act of doing one thing and one thing only (e.g: the 5 steps).
That's the beauty and the ugliness of Things 3. Personally, for me, Things 3 is terrible. It's cumbersome and brittle, because my mind currently fits in the “Interest-driven nervous system”, rather than the most common “Importance-driven nervous system”.
Things 3 is amazing. I actually just paid attention to these intricate details because the methodology and the app itself frustrated me. All traditional task manager apps frustrate me. Things 3 stands out because it frustrates me clearly and intelligently.