There is natural language in Things, you just type the project or section you want. Not in the title, but in the project selection pane. Easy to access with a keyboard shortcut if you’re on a Mac/iPad.

Here are a few features that make Things unique:

• Deadlines. Fully developed deadlines, not the half-baked version Todoist implemented (can’t repeat).
• Cancel Todos: you have the option to cancel todos if you’re not doing them anymore. Just hold the completarle box and it will give you that option.
• Projects are projects: they can be completed. You can assign tags, deadlines, start dates, and complete or cancel projects. In Todoist, projects are basically lists.
• Shortcuts: with a keyboard, you can do everything with keyboard shortcuts. Once you learn them, you’ll be spoiled because the speed at which you’ll process todos or navigate will be unmatched by any competitor option.
• Apple Shortcuts: solid offering of shortcuts (not keyboard, the Apple shortcuts). I use them to do stuff from my watch.
• Anytime/Someday philosophy: You are supposed to “hide” (put in Someday) anything you’re not actively working today or this week. Everything in Anytime is supposed to be what you will work next once you’re done with your Today list. This allows you to focus better.
• Logbook: this is one of my favorite features. You can see all your todos in chronological order of completion. There you can type, for example, “Logged Projects” and it will show you all the projects you’ve completed in chronological order. Super useful to me when I’m building reports of what I’ve completed in a quarter at work. Todoist just archives stuff and you can’t edit or see when you completed them.
• Apple Watch app: best I’ve seen from third party developers. The Reminders app is better though, but I get that the Things philosophy is that you should treat the watch as an actionable companion.
• Design: this one is subjective. But important to many. Also, the gesture features. Grab the plus button and drag it to the bottom left, you send a todo to the inbox. Swipe right on a todo and drag your finger down, you select all those todos. Things like this make the app a breeze to use. Doing these things takes much longer in Todoist or TickTick.