On the Mac, and on your mobile devices, you can use Siri to create tasks in Apple Reminders and move them into Things later.Siri on iPhone and iPad gives you the ability to interact with Things by speaking.

The email’s subject becomes your to-do’s title, and the email’s body is added as the note. This will create a to-do in your Things Inbox. Mail to Things is a powerful way to create to-dos by sending an email to Things Cloud. Live Text uses your camera to insert text in your notes. It’s not available in the titles of to-dos or checklists. Live Text is available in the notes of to-dos and projects. This makes it easy to turn real-world text from books or even scribbles on a whiteboard into a note in a Things to-do. For information on how to use Live Text, see Apple’s guides for iPhone and iPad.Īpple’s Live Text feature lets you capture text simply by pointing your device’s camera at it. This feature requires at least Things 3.15 and iOS 15 or iPadOS 15.1. To learn more about Quick Entry (with Autofill), please check out our page here. They allow you to quickly capture thoughts, and include relevant details, without switching away from what you are currently working on. On Mac, you can add to-dos from anywhere via two features called Quick Entry and Quick Entry with Autofill. Things can only accept plain text as input, so dragging in files (photos, PDFs, etc) won’t work.įor information on how to use multitasking on iPad, or drag and drop on iPhones with iOS 15, see Apple’s guides. If dropping content into Things doesn’t work, it might be because the content you’re trying to add is not supported. Drag into existing to-dos, or drop into a list to create completely new to-dos. On your mobile devices, you can drag content from some apps into Things, for example from Apple Mail, Safari, Messages, or Maps.

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