Things Mac Updates & Release Notes

February 3, 2011

• Repeating Tasks: Complete re-write of the Repeating Tasks engine.
• Repeating Tasks: Support for syncing repeating tasks with Things on iOS devices.
• Repeating Tasks: Repeating tasks with due dates can now be generated zero days before due.
• Repeating Tasks: Items Scheduled for the last week of the year are now handled correctly.
• Repeating Tasks: Improved robustness of repeating projects.
• Repeating Tasks: Dialog can now be submitted by pressing Enter.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug where checked items would erroneously move to the top of the list.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug where the date picker would not get reset properly after closing it.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug where monthly update checks would not trigger correctly.

October 26, 2010

• Quick Entry: a new preference allows either Inbox or Today to be chosen as the default destination
• Tasks now show their creation date and last modified date in the action menu
• Projects and Areas can now be sorted alphabetically in the sidebar by ctrl-clicking a Project or Area
• Font-size changes in the main view will now also affect the Tags window
• Enabling the option "Group to-dos in the Today list by project or area" in preferences now shows a notification that this feature is not supported on iOS devices
• Enhanced readability of mail subjects with non-ASCII characters
• Added a progress bar for the "Preparing" phase of the sync process
• Fixed an issue where using Quick Entry in conjunction with OS X Spaces could make the keyboard unresponsive
• Fixed an issue where the shortcut for emptying the Trash would delete the currently selected task
• Fixed an issue where tasks in the Logbook would erroneously make the "Show in Logbook" button visible on the toolbar
• Fixed an issue where tasks were not sorted by completion date in the Logbook
• Fixed an issue where logged tasks were not sorted by completion date in the Project view

September 1st, 2010

• Sync: Speed has been improved tremendously, resulting in sync being up to 10x faster.
• Font Sizes: Users can now select different font sizes to increase readability on hi-res displays.
• Projects: Projects belonging to different Areas can now be arbitrarily reordered in the sidebar.
• Quick Entry: Area and Project can now be selected when creating a new to-do via the Quick Entry dialog.
• Improved the layout and design of the print style sheet.
• Fixed an issue where dragging repeating projects to Active Projects occasionally resulted in data inconsistencies.
• Improved performance when bulk-removing delegates.

August 12, 2010

• Fixed an issue that caused Things to crash in some cases when rescheduling a scheduled to-do in Today.
• Fixed 3 additional issues that would make Things crash in specific situations.
• Fixed an issue where double clicking a to-do would open the wrong item in the details view.
• Tags window: Separated background & highlight drawing of outline view. Fixed drawing bug when scrolling in the tags window.
• Fixed an issue where iCal calendars were not visible for Custom iCal Sync in Preferences.
• Fixed an issue where reordering to-dos in Today would not work when filtered by tag.
• Localization: Fixed an issue where the English localization would get displayed with scheduled tasks in Projects.
• The Teammates dialog now has a minimum size to prevent it from becoming unusable when resizing it.
• The UI does now update when undoing the delegating of a to-do.
• Fixed an issue in Areas where the wrong toolbar icons were being displayed for selected to-dos.
• Fixed an issue where tabbing into the Tags field of a Project's header would delete all existing tags for this project.
• Fixed an issue where Daylight Savings Time would interfere with the timestamp of the last maintenance date.
• When dragging an email with an empty subject onto the Notes field, the empty subject will now be replaced with a '(missing subject)' placeholder.
• Fixed an issue where in some cases to-dos could not be created within projects after performing a search.

June 24, 2010

• Logged items from deleted areas are now preserved in the Logbook.
• Things now displays a confirmation dialog before deleting a non-empty area.
• Added our own crash reporter. Users can send crash reports directly to Cultured Code now.
• Fixed an issue where an empty project title would prevent any items from being shown in 'Next'.
• Fixed an issue where moving project to-dos using the keyboard in the Next or Today lists would result in the user interface switching to project view.
• Fixed an issue where moving a project to an area removed the Today status of all to-dos in the project.
• Fixed an issue where creating a new to-do via the menu command File > New To Do could take an unusual length of time.
• Things now auto-saves before entering read-only mode.
• Fixed an issue where date strings in the Scheduled list overlapped other UI elements for some languages.
• Fixed an issue where Things would not select the corresponding item when opening a Things to-do search result in the Finder if Things wasn't already running.
• Things Helper. Fixed an issue where the Things Helper application would prevent some systems from entering sleep mode.
• Things Helper. Fixed an issue where missing executable permissions on the Things Helper application would result in Things crashing.
• Localization. Japanese localization fixes.
• Localization. French localization fixes.

January 21, 2010

• Fixed a regression related to the Today list sync conflict issue.
• Fixed an issue where items completed between 12/27/2009 and 12/31/2009 were shown in the Logbook as completed in 2010.
• Added support for emptying the Trash immediately. Hold down the option key while choosing the "Empty Trash..." menu command.
• Fixed an issue where the title of a to-do could have multiple lines when entered via Quicksilver.
• Additional fixes for the issue where Things sometimes started with an empty window and remained unresponsive for some time.
• Fixed a bug that could result in missing search results when searching for tags that contain subtags.
• Localization. Added missing translations for Tags window.
• Localization. Japanese localization fixes.
• Localization. French localization fixes.

December 23, 2009

• Fixed a sync conflict bug with the Today list. Note: Things for iPhone 1.3.12 is required for this fix to work, and is available on the App Store.
• Fixed an issue where file links containing a combination of Unicode characters and spaces were duplicated each time when opening the corresponding to-do.
• In some situations, Things would crash when launching Things 1.2.5 with a 1.2.6 database.
• Minor localization improvements.
• Fixed an issue where Things sometimes started with an empty window and remained unresponsive.
• Fixed an issue where Quick Entry dialog shortcuts would get recreated even though the shortcuts were removed by the user.

December 9, 2009

• Things now monitors whether it is launched from outside the Applications folder, in which case it offers to move itself to the Applications folder.
• Added Quick Entry autofill support for Microsoft Entourage.
• Performance. Things now launches faster in situations where many to-dos are created in or moved to the Today list (e.g. when to-dos are repeated, activate, or become due).
• Performance. Creation of projects is faster for libraries that contain many active projects.
• Performance. Various smaller performance improvements.
• iCal sync. Things now uses a background application to collect changes occurring in systemwide to-dos even when it is not running. This allowed us to complete a workaround for an Apple Mail iCal sync issue.
• Bug fix. Previously the search field lost focus when an entered search term was deleted. This is fixed now.
• Bug fix. The action pop-up button (lower-left of main window) now uses more appropriate menu items when a teammate is selected.
• Bug fix. iCal Sync. The mail-link which is automatically added to to-dos created in Apple Mail now has a "Show in Mail" title (instead of the technical URL that had been previously displayed).
• Bug fix. The size of the "File..." sheet is now remembered between launches.
• Bug fix. In some situations Things crashed when emptying Trash. This is fixed now.
• Bug fix. Fixed a problem where certain links from iCal syncing did not work properly. …

October 7, 2009

• Simplified dialog for filing to-dos into projects and areas.
• When entering tags in the corresponding field of a to-do, in addition to autocompletion, it is now also possible to use tag shortcuts.
• Repeating to-dos. In addition to "last", also added "31st" as an option to specify the last day of a month.
• iCal sync. Partial fix for an issue where Mail.app created duplicate items in Things.
• Toolbar. In the Projects list, the Next toolbar item is no longer shown when no projects are selected. Instead the Active/Inactive item is shown.
• Toolbar. Titles of toolbar items that did not fit into the toolbar, were not always displayed correctly in the >> overflow menu. This is fixed.
• Toolbar. When removing an item from the Today list by clicking the "Not Today" toolbar item, the toolbar item's title no longer incorrectly changes to "Today".
• Drag & Drop. It is now possible to drag RSS feeds from Apple Mail into a to-do's notes section.
• Drag & Drop. When dragging cards from Address Book to the Things dock icon, the corresponding link in the new to-do's notes section is now created correctly (does not work on Snow Leopard yet).
• Drag & Drop. When dragging a file to a to-do's notes section, we no longer add a "+" badge to the dragged image. Instead the arrow badge is shown to indicate that only a link (alias) to the file is generated.
• Quick Entry. Autofill now also works with RSS feeds in Apple Mail. …