Cultured Code Release Notes

December 29, 2008

• New icons!
• Added a (beautiful!) way to add and view license codes.
• To-dos in the Today list can now be reordered across project and area boundaries. Consequently, the project and area headings are gone.
• In flat lists like Today or when filtering by due date or searching, the project's title and due date are displayed in the to-do item itself.
• In flat lists, tags inherited from a project or area are displayed in gray within the to-do item itself.
• The "Show in List" toolbar button is now displayed in all flat lists (not only while searching).
• Sidebar. Moved the Projects list to the Focus group. Previously, users new to Things often overlooked the Projects overview.
• Sidebar. Removed an unnecessary level of indentation by grouping projects and areas under collapsable headings.
• Sidebar. Titles of projects and areas can now be edited directly in the sidebar.
• Sidebar. It is now possible to reorder projects and areas in the sidebar.
• Sidebar. Projects can now be organized directly by dragging them in the sidebar to, e.g., a Focus list or an Area.
• Sidebar. Added contextual (right-click) menus. …

December 5, 2008

• When the contents of an Area of Responsibility is displayed in the main view, the "New Project" menu command now inserts the new project into the this Area instead of the general projects list.
• You can now use Command-F to move keyboard focus to the search field. The only exception is when editing the note section of a to-do. In that case the standard find panel is shown.
• Improved reliability of "https" URL detection.
• The "Item>Move To" menu command didn't reflect the new ordering in the sidebar. This is fixed now.
• Schedule Dialog, regression. When re-scheduling a to-do it was no longer possible to move the date to the past. This is fixed.
• Schedule Dialog. The title of the action popup button now also updates when clicking into the date picker.
• The state of toolbar buttons now update correctly when the selection changes due to applying an operation that removes an item from the current list.
• iCal Sync. Syncing priorities now also works with the German localization.
• Minor improvements to the German localization.
• iPhone sync. Increased robustness and reliability of device discovery under unusual network conditions.
• iPhone sync. Added "Sync now" menu command and button (Preferences).
• iPhone sync. Added facility to debug sync/network problems. Clicking on the "Sync Now" button in Preferences while holding down the option/alt key copies a sync report to the clipboard. …

• Alt-clicking on checkbox marks an item as Canceled.
• Toggling the Today flag now also works on mixed selections.
• Alt-Backspace shortcut for marking items as Canceled.
• Added "Log Completed" tool to project view.
• Tags window. Fixed a bug that prevented children of tags to be reordered (regression due to optimizations introduced in a previous Leopard update).
• Fixed a bug that prevented children of inactive projects to be updated correctly when the project was moved to "Next".
• Changed spelling of "Cancelled" to American English.
• Canceling due items now works correctly.
• Sidebar counts no longer include canceled items.
• Canceled tasks will no longer be synced with the system/iCal.
• In the morning the dock count was only updated after making Things the active application. This is fixed.

• Dock badge and corresponding preference settings (Leopard only).
• To Do items now can have a "Cancelled" status.
• Warning when attempting to check off a project that still contains incomplete items.
• More compact design of the Today and Next lists.
• The preferences window can no longer be inadvertently resized. Doing so previously broke the window's layout.
• iCal sync. To Do items generated by repeating task templates are no longer ignored.
• iCal sync now honors the "Move completed items to Logbook: Immediately" setting in other applications as well.
• iCal sync. When specifying a tag x in the "Only items having any of the following tags" field, items that carried a child tag of x were not synced. This is fixed.
• Validation of "Items" menu commands is more accurate now.
• Emptying the trash when the Trash list is selected no longer crashes Things (regression in 0.9.2.1)
• Fixed a regression that prevented delegated tasks in projects to be reordered.
• Logging projects that still contain incomplete items no longer breaks the ordering in Next and Today (regression).

• Repeating tasks on Tiger. Fixed a bug that resulted in upcoming dates to be computed incorrectly for the weekly setting when the number of weeks was bigger than one.
• Fixed regression of Leopard style email links introduced in 0.9. Dragging emails to notes should now work again from all mailboxes including Notes.
• Italian date format. Fixed a parsing problem that was caused by the fact that "mar" is short for both a month and a weekday name.
• Completed items in the trash are no longer logged.
• The "Move to Today" action is always preselected when scheduling an item that is marked Today.
• Quick Entry Dialog. When choosing the Scheduled list, the Postpone dialog now shows the correct title.
• The count displayed in project items now reads "1 item" instead of "1 items".

• Items in Areas of Responsibility can be made repeating by using the action gear menu (visible in edit mode).
• Scheduled items can me made repeating by using the drop down menu left of the items.
• Pull down menu next to postponed items in Scheduled now displays the absolute date as its first item.
• Descriptions of repeating items now correctly use 21st, 22nd, 23rd instead of 21th etc.
• Action gear drop down menu now shows a message when user attemps to make a to-do repeating which is contained in a project (future versions of Things will support this option).
• Replaced "Postponed" title with "Scheduled" in "Go To" menu command.
• Make Repeating: "After completion" option now works correctly when item was completed already.
• The Error Report dialog now offers to try to resume instead of quitting Things regardless.
• Fixed a crash in situations where the target of a file link was deleted or unavailable.
• Fixed a crash related to unnamed items.
• Fixed a crash on systems where the Helvetica font was disabled or deinstalled.
• Fixed a crash that occurred while attempting to manipulate a newly created item with the mouse while the item was still in editing mode.

• Recurring Tasks
• Added a "Choose Things Library" dialog that can be invoked by holding the option/alt key while opening Things.
• Better error handling. Things will now catch more unexpected errors and also offers a convenient way to send reports via email.
• To-dos and projects can now be duplicated via the menu command in the Edit menu.
• Renamed "Postponed" to "Scheduled"
• The Scheduled list now uses headings to groups items like "Next week", "April", etc.
• The Scheduled list now uses relative dates
• The Scheduled list now re-sorts instantly when changing a date.
• Added a "Move to Today"-option for postponed to-dos.
• The add tag button menu is now hierarchically structured.
• The add tag button now also works when the tag field does not have keyboard focus.
• Hi-res application icon
• Project and area items now indicate if they contain due items.
• More informative description for a project's item count at bottom of the main window.
• Double clicking no longer creates new to-dos (too often new to-do items were accidentally created)
• Quick Entry dialog. Things is no longer inadvertently un-hidden when tags are entered.
• By clicking into the main window while Things is not active, to-dos can no longer be checked off. Previously it could happen that the wrong to-do was marked completed.
• When the Quick Entry dialog was brought up, the notes field sometimes had a wrong height. This is fixed. …

• Improved stability and reliability (in particular related to removing teammates)
• Project due dates are now also shown in Next and Today lists.
• French date format. Corrected problems with setting due dates.
• Ordering of items in the "Move To" and "Where" menus were inconsistent with the side bar. This is fixed.
• The mini calendar now honours the user's "Start week on" iCal setting.
• Todos correctly display their due date even past midnight (due and postponed dates are not supposed to activate before 4:00 am in the morning)
• In addition to the backspace key, the delete key can now also be used to remove items.
• Inbox no longer counts completed todos.
• When dragging items to a text document, the resulting text no longer uses wiki/html syntax.