I know this is a subject that has been discussed in various ways in the past, so sorry for repeating, but I wanted to see where things were these days. The feature request: when a new To Do item is created in Agenda it automatically creates one in the Things 3 app. Effectively you are choosing to use Things 3 as the underlying To Do system instead of the currently supported Apple Reminders. Is that possible or ever likely to be on the road map? I know there are shortcuts and other ‘hacks’ that can be used to do something, but I’d be looking for the effortless sync that you currently get with Apple Reminders, but instead using Things 3.
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Thanks for the feedback.
The reason we integrate with Apple Reminders specifically is that it is a system-level database that any app can read from and write to, with Apple’s permission prompt. That shared store is what makes the two-way sync feel effortless, the reminders you create in Agenda show up in Reminders and vice versa, because both apps are talking to the same underlying data.
Things 3 doesn’t support the system database. It has a URL scheme you can add things to, but there is no public way to read back, update, or stay in sync with its database the way EventKit lets us do with Reminders. So an effortless Things 3 backend isn’t something we can build at the moment, it would really be down to Cultured Code opening up that kind of access.
That said, I understand the appeal, and we’ll keep an ear out in case the integration options on that side ever change. For now the Shortcuts and x-callback-url routes are the closest you can get, even if they aren’t the seamless sync you’re after.
Kind regards,
Drew
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