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Things Blog
Company blog · culturedcode.com/things/blogproductivitydesign
Things Blog is the company blog at culturedcode.com, writing about productivity and design. Since 2008, 96 different Hacker News readers have linked it 103 times, most often ““Things 3” Released”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Mostly bare links to culturedcode.com, the product and status pages for Things, a Mac and iOS task manager. Comments praise the app, not any blog writing, so no post-level judgement appears.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Things is the award-winning personal task manager that helps you plan your day, manage your projects, and make real progress toward your goals.
Most-linked posts?
- “Things 3” Released26 people · 27 mentions · first linked 2014-07-21
- Things 2 is out (Mac/iOS app)16 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2008-12-30
- Keeping Customers Up-to-Date on Development: Cultured Code9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2010-02-07
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-05-22
- Designing the UI of Things for iPhone3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-09-24
- Things Cloud2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-09
- /things/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-30
- A Swift Cloud2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-19
- /things2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-04
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-01
What Hacker News says?
Follow the instructions on this page: https://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php/Sending_crash... but e-mail them to waseem@inbox2.com Thanks!
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on “Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 years of my life on”Submitted “Things 3” Released as a story · 40 points
HN discussionThe motivation behind a task manager (and things like GTD) is that your brain has much more important things to worry about than what you have to do. If you get to the point where you really trust the system you use, you can get to the point where you're not stressed about remembering upcoming things. Instead, you just consult your system and see what's up. I started using Things ( https://culturedcode.com/things/ )…
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on “Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?”Submitted Things 2 is out (Mac/iOS app) as a story · 30 points
HN discussionThings ( https://culturedcode.com/things/ ) does pretty much that. It has a little Quick Entry daemon which lets you press control-option-space in Mail.app to make a new task linked to the selected mail. By default, the subject ends up as the task's title, though you can change it before hitting Return. In general, I highlight recommend Things. It does all the typical GTD stuff, in a mostly Maclike way, and has a gr…
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on “Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?”Submitted The State of Things.app Sync, Part 1 as a story · 19 points
HN discussionIn the beginning we used Show Source and Console. As web pages grew in size it became difficult to navigate the source code, and you still had no direct way to view how CSS was being applied. The first web inspector that I used was Xyle Scope in 2004. It was an early tool based on Apple's new Safari engine. It was a few years before Firebug was released, and even then it took a while for Firebug to beat Xyle Scope i…
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on “Thank You, Firebug (2017)”Submitted Keeping Customers Up-to-Date on Development: Cultured Code as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThings for Mac & iOS - https://culturedcode.com/things/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?”Submitted ☑ Things 2 as a story · 16 points
HN discussionFirst off, congrats on getting your idea out into a tangible product. Many people come up with ideas, even fewer take time, or have the skills, to try to actually build them, but you put in time and effort that made it to the end goal of putting it on the App Store. Not everyone makes it that far so congratulations on doing so. I took a look because, as a current student, I often have to write research papers and ta…
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on “Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?”Submitted Things: The State of Sync Part 2 as a story · 14 points
HN discussion> I'm not sure if Things lets you export tasks, but if they do I'm more than happy to run a one-time custom import for you (or any other Things user). There's also the simpler way, which is copying a bunch of tasks to your clipboard and hitting ⌘+Shift+V in Godspeed to paste tasks from clipboard. It'll respect indentation and bullet characters. The local Things database is just a sqlite database. https://culturedcod…
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on “Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac”Submitted A Swift Cloud as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI designed the sync engine for Things Cloud [0] over a decade ago. It seems to have worked out pretty well for them. (The linked page has some details about what it can do.) When sync Just Works™, it's a magical thing. One of the reason's my design has been reliable from its very first release, even across multiple refactors/rewrites (I believe it's currently on its third, this time to Swift) is that it uses a Git-l…
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on “Sync Engines Are the Future”Submitted Hey, things:/// as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI use three tools: 1) Things app on my iPhone/iPad/Mac ( https://culturedcode.com/things/ ) - it's a quick place to jot down quick thoughts or notes when I'm in the middle of doing other things. (I use it for my "to-do" lists - and it syncs beautifully across my other Apple devices.) 2) MindNode ( https://mindnode.com/ ) - if I have a group of thoughts, or if I have a few minutes, I'll often create a quick mind map…
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on “Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?”Submitted Things 2.0 and Things Cloud Available as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://culturedcode.com/things/ is the best, or least-worst, that I've ever used in terms of simplicity + power.
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on “Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?”Submitted Designing the UI of Things for iPhone as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'm happy with Things honestly. https://culturedcode.com/things/
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on “FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source”Submitted Things 3.0 Is Happening as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe things app https://culturedcode.com/things/ , even though it's just an elegant TODO app something drove me to buy the iPhone and Mac versions. Some time ago I spent a good amount of time looking for a development stack that allowed me to just build stuff. I ended up trying and deciding on Laravel Jetstream with InertiaJS https://jetstream.laravel.com/2.x/stacks/inertia.html . Laravel was easy enough already to j…
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?”Submitted Things developers status board for upcoming features as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLooks great, I love the UI and the whole native approach. I wish there was an option to use iCloud for storage or even full offline mode. I would also prefer the one-time payment, even if it is high (like https://culturedcode.com/things/ does). Also please copy "Daily Notes" from Roam :-)
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on “Craft – A fresh take on documents”Submitted Things for OS 26 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn a similar vein but meant to be public: http://culturedcode.com/status/
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on “The Panic Status Board”Submitted A Swift Cloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe only app that does this right I know is Things 3[1] by Cultured Code. [1]: https://culturedcode.com/
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on “Show HN: Tweek Calendar – A minimal weekly planner and to-do list”Submitted Mail to Things as a story · 2 points
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