Things 2 vs Amplenote

Users need to create an account for Things Cloud (the account can be created from any device). Once signed up, cloud sync will be active, and you’ll have to login on all of your devices to complete setup. From that point on, syncing happens in the background. It is invisible and always reliable.

At the beginning of every day, a yellow box appears at the top of the Today section, displaying all tasks scheduled for this day. You can investigate them, and then decide which ones you’ll have for that day and which one you’d rather want to delay.

Things 2 works from the moment you start it up. Simply add a task and when you want it done by. You can also add notes to tasks or tag when you need them. Things allows you to quickly and easily start keeping track of your tasks.

Things 2 has a projects feature that allows you to organize your tasks together. You can select a project you need to get done and Things helps you focus on each task to get it done. You can even group projects together to focus on the most important aspect of your life at the time.

Things is one of the best apps of doing Getting Things Done.

It's very easy filtering tasks that belong to various areas (etc private vs work)

Logical and responsive navigation and editing. Easy to operate.

The calendar view (when selecting a due date for a task) is a customized, scrollable version of the default iOS calendar view. This makes it look familiar, but also functional for Things 2's requirements.

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Company has not raised venture capital.

Schema follows sensible flow from capture to revision to prioritize to schedule.

Team maintains a voting board at https://amplenote.featureupvote.com that drives development roadmap, ensuring calibration between note enthusiasts and the product.

Publish notes to the web (with configurable URLs) or share notes with collaborators.

Fully functional offline mode.

Can be installed on macOS, Linux, Windows (via PWA), iOS and Android.

Any task with a date/time assigned to it will be exported to calendars optionally connected. Completing the task removes it from calendar.

Any note can be assigned as many deeply nested tags as desired. The tag hierarchy can be navigated, filtered on tasks or notes.

Amplenote supports the same [[]] syntax popular in Roam to create a link to an existing note. Every linked note has a tab with all the references into that note.

Every task can be marked as "Urgent" or "Important," along with the time it's due. This makes it possible for the software to automatically sort your todo list in a way that makes sense, and save you time of deciding what to work on first every day.