Things Touch 1.5 has hit the App Store, and it brings with it some welcome changes to the Move Dialog (although they ‘ll probably also take a bit of getting used to). Version 1.5 is also a pretty big step forward in terms of Things as a standalone task manager, as, up until now, Things Touch has always really been the partner-in-app to the more robust, and more powerful Things for Mac.
Move Dialog
The Move Dialog is the ‘do everything ‘ menu of Things. You can assign categories, defer due dates, or remove them altogether ” all from the Move dialog.
The old move dialog in Things presented you with a list of the Focus (Today/Next/Scheduled/Someday) and Areas of Responsibility, but allowed you to only pick one. This meant that you couldn ‘t decide the priority of a task (due Today or just Someday?) and assign it to an Area of Responsibility (category) in one go. Things Touch 1.5 changes this up and allows you to assign a Focus and an Area when moving a task. The mechanics of the dialog have also changed, and it now takes one extra tap to finish moving a task, regardless of what you assign it to.
Creating Tasks
The creation of tasks feels just a little more natural now. Tapping on the ‘Create in ‘ button when creating a task used to require you to ‘Save ‘ after you finished assigning a Focus. This Save button was positioned along the top-right corner of the screen, leading you to believe that pressing Save would actually finish everything up and create the task, when all it actually did was save the changes you made to the Focus or Area of the task. This has been made a bit clearer in 1.5, and you ‘ll now exit the ‘Create in ‘ dialogue by tapping on a ‘New To Do ‘ button on the upper-left hand side. This is definitely a ridiculously small sounding change, but one that makes a pretty big difference for new and regular users alike. I think it ‘s just better and more natural UI design and makes the app flow better.
Tap Tap Tap
I realize that probably only makes sense to Things users, but long story short: Moving is now more flexible than ever, but it ‘s not quite as fast as it used to be, either. In fact, Things is now one of the more tap-heavy task managers out there, favouring a clean and minimal interface, but forcing you to confirm a lot of your choices before you can actually get anything done.
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