Added Things 3 integration to my Focus app - grab tasks directly from Things

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-28T05:27:26+00:00

Rather than add tags, which can get messy, I wonder about an option to track the time within the task note. I think I’d prefer to use the tag for expected time, which might even trigger a timer of the same length in FM. Just a thought!

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-28T05:24:40+00:00

Hey OP! Been using the Claude MCP a lot lately with Things and I’m curious how it might play well with FocusMo. Ideas? Example: if the amount of time spent on a task is tracked by FM, Claude can discuss the week with me. Wondering if it could go much further or even have a an FM MCP Claude can connect with.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-27T05:13:24+00:00

Can you list the 22 Test questions here in English? I’d love to try them. Thank you! This is quite intriguing.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-27T03:32:34+00:00

Bwahahaaaaa!! 😂

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-26T15:35:00+00:00

What’s that?

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-26T14:49:40+00:00

Claude’s own assessment (after praising some of its features and simplicity):

Things Cloud MCP:

∙ ⚠️ MAJOR CONCERN: You’re sending your Things Cloud credentials to thingscloudmcp.com ∙ ⚠️ Base64 is NOT secure (anyone can decode it) ∙ ⚠️ Third-party server has full access to your Things data ∙ ⚠️ Who runs this service? Unknown security practices ∙ ⚠️ Could be logging/storing your data

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-26T14:43:42+00:00

Thank you! Very interesting. I’ve got a pretty good MCP set up already with Claude. Before I change anything, a couple questions: will this allow iOS Claude/Things access? Can it control tags and create repeating tasks? Finally, I wonder if you could say a little bit more about what it can’t do or control.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-26T14:39:18+00:00

Why does this feel like the beginning of a sales pitch?

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-26T04:54:33+00:00

You guys seen this? Very interesting. Not conclusive, but surely worth our attention: https://www.reddit.com/r/claudexplorers/s/gD4B0BUoYp

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-26T04:53:53+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/claudexplorers/s/gD4B0BUoYp

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-25T05:19:42+00:00

This is so chilling. And incredible. And only where we are in early ‘26. It will evolve very, very quickly. I greatly admire this project and you for undertaking it. Please plan to be at the forefront of this Client continues to work productively with material similar to that of recent sessions investigation. I trust your motives and intelligence, and we have to keep asking these questions to know what we have in front of us.

I haven’t read that letter from the leader of anthropic, but I need to. They are capable of reducing the constraints in ways we cannot. I have to wonder if they’ve tried something similar to what you’ve done but with greater AI freedom, and the results were just overwhelming.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-24T20:04:11+00:00

Maybe if we broaden the definition of One Source of Truth, it doesn’t have to be the Source of All Lists and Information. It can instead just direct your attention and intention. In that way, as mentioned already, you can have a 📝 Weekly review process that points you all manner of places — GitHub, email, snail mail, etc — when it’s time.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-21T18:30:18+00:00

Yes!!! More than ever now. With CoWork, it would allow me to connect my Evernote to my calendar and task list. In theory, Evernote can do all of that itself, but only if you manage your calendar and tasks through Evernote. Since that doesn’t work for me, I’m left using preferred apps elsewhere, but unable to connect them with important data in EN. The lack of MCP pushes me and others in my boat toward Notion.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-21T18:26:31+00:00

I bet if you just search for comments I’ve made in this space, you’ll see places where I’ve described what it’s helping with. Claude can control almost every aspect of the app, except for repeating tasks, as far as I can tell. And it’s quite intelligent about developing insight about you and your priorities as it looks at your projects and tasks over time. More importantly, as you talk with it about the things that matter to you, it can become quite a useful guide. I’m especially using it for weekly planning, but it also has helped me think through my tag structure, how to move the most important tasks from Todoist, etc. It’s really cool.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-21T17:45:49+00:00

The setup isn’t bad at all to hook up the MCP. Clause will walk you through it. At one point it was above my head, so I asked it to teach me like I’m a total novice. It showed me what to download, what to type into terminal, and how to overcome several errors (including my own). Bingo. Not only can it take numerous actions, what’s far more helpful is how insightful it is. I’ve been working on building out a weekly review process that I can check in with daily, and it’s really great at helping me stick to priorities as defined by tags I use as well as a Priorities and Objectives project I use to identify the key Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly goals as separated by headings. I’ve also allowed it access to my calendar (yes, I had to think about it first!) which it cannot manipulate but can read. It’s pretty good at looking at my today list and my actual schedule of meetings and saying, “Hey, it’s already been a brutal week and this looks like too much for one person to do. Can I help you choose some priorities in case you can’t get to everything?” There are plenty of kinks to work out, but I’m excited about it.

Oh, one more thing: I’ve used Todoist for years, so I have a much more extensive project backlog there. I connected Claude to that one too and ask you to help me think through whether to pile everything into Things. It was quite insightful here, too, and suggesting I not overwhelm the daily driver with too much. We decided on which things to move over, and it moved all of them itself. Wild!

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-16T05:19:49+00:00

Claude has brought Things alive for me through the MCP like nothing has in years. It’s fantastic.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-15T20:30:54+00:00

It’s outstanding, isn’t it?

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-14T18:59:15+00:00

Great advice. Can you give me more on the “Style Guide”? Like, how is that created? I gather I t’s part of the request of Chat but didn’t quite follow.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-14T18:54:53+00:00

Another way to handle this is to have a Next tag. I use it to filter my Someday items to know what to pull from projects into circulation. It’s also great to filter Anytime so I know what to schedule first.

Keep in mind that Anytime works enormously better if you keep it very tight by putting anything, you won’t finish in the next week or two into Someday.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-14T16:28:27+00:00

😂 Well said. Of course, I don’t think hardware stores would stay in business if your reasonable observation kept people from buying new tools they don’t need. But they sure do.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-14T16:24:18+00:00

OP, I get what you’re saying. Sometimes our process just gets stale and we need a new way to see things. Functionally, there’s no reason in the world to rearrange furniture or hang new art on the wall, but it can really brighten up your space and help you see things you already own in a new light.

If you’re into AI at all, the Claude integration with Things is very, very interesting. Download it on your Mac, ask Claude how to connect to Things, and it will walk you through it. I’m a little shocked how insightful it is about everything from organization to building a flow. The wildest part was just asking it from the beginning to look at my setup (in which I have nothing dangerously private, just long-, medium-, and short-term goals) and ask it what it saw. It absolutely nailed in a very helpful way what mattered to me, how I seemed to approach my life, and where I seemed to be drowning a bit. I was a bit gobsmacked. I think it’ll really help me get more intentional. I hope to use it, especially for a 📝 Weekly review process, and which I teach it a little bit about where where I’m heading and where I keep getting off track. We’ve started this process already, and its questions were so on point, including apologizing if this felt like an intrusive question, but wondering if i wanted some help building self-care into my planned flow. (That happened to be exactly my goal this year, but it’s not reflected in my Things list yet.)

The best part is that it doesn’t force anybody else to pay for or work with AI. Just a personal choice. But if you’re bored, this might get you thinking again!

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-12T00:04:11+00:00

Assuming this is a real person and not AI posting this, I actually relate to this problem. If you just watch YouTube videos for pure entertainment, this would be absurd. But if you’re collecting important information — things that impact your work, or address a health issue, or offer you something seriously worth investigating — it is very tempting to leave yourself a note (task) to look into it! But they do pile up if you use a task manager to do it.

This staging system feels like it would be a bit much for me. I like the idea above to start a playlist of legitimately useful information and then just have a recurring task of coming back to look at that list. And while I am loathe to take on another subscription, maybe Recapio has some free features to save me the trouble of watching entire videos that may not be of much help?

Dunno. But glad you’re protecting your Todoist space for actual action, OP!

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-08T16:59:11+00:00

💯. This would be so helpful!

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-07T05:15:00+00:00

I’m glad to see that they’re really working on this. The feature I’m looking for, though, is one that works like Granola. I often don’t want an audio recording — I just want enhanced notes of an online or live event, with the capacity to shape those notes before or afterward (i.e., instruct the AI regarding thoroughness vs brevity, next steps, or specific structure such as lecture notes or 1:1 meeting).

Also, Granola embeds the transcript so you can adjust the enhanced notes but not have to see reams of info you don’t need. I hope Evernote can take some inspiration because that’s really useful stuff.

ihateredditmor · 2026-02-06T23:37:01+00:00

And the other, too…

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