Peter Akkies – Organize Your Life with Things 3

In Organize Your Life with Things 3 Course, You’ll Learn How To:

• Get your tasks from everywhere else into Things
• Structure your tasks with Areas and Projects
• Work with dates
• Plan your days and weeks
• Execute consistent weekly reviews
• Work with tags
• Use project templates to save time and reduce errors

Of course, you’ll learn lots of specific things too, like when you should use deadlines; how to actually reach Inbox Zero (🧘🏻); and how to never forget a birthday again ( 🥳).

Your Time Is Valuable

You’ll learn exactly what you need—no more and no less. I’ve designed the course to be efficient, because your time is valuable.

‍You could piece together information on using Things from random places all over the Internet. But how long would that take? And what is that time worth to you?

When you follow this course, you’ll learn everything you need to know to organize your life and to be productive using Things. You’ll save tons on time compared to figuring things out yourself.

Think about what you could do with the extra time. You could spend it with your kids. You could spend it learning to play the guitar. Or you could, you know, spend the time doing the actual work you want to do!

After You Follow Organize Your Life with Things 3 Course, You’ll:

• be able to focus,
• feel in control
• know what to work on next,
• save time and reduce errors,
• and have a system, so nothing slips through the cracks.

That’s what learning a workflow you can trust will do for you.

Table of contents Organize Your Life with Things 3:

Getting ready

• Welcome! (1:43)
• Course goal, requirements, and philosophy (3:17)
• Customizing some Things settings (5:39)

Getting all of your tasks into Things

• Dividing your responsibilities up into areas (5:14)
• Getting tasks from your head into the Things inbox (5:14)
• Adding tasks to the inbox with Quick Entry (8:05)
• Adding tasks to the inbox on iOS or iPadOS (2:17)
• Using the share sheet to add to Things on iOS (1:34)
• Processing your email with Things (5:25)
• Adding tasks with Siri on iOS or iPadOS (3:09)
• Check-in: making sure all your tasks are in Things (1:29)

Navigating Things

• Things keyboard shortcuts
• Using Quick Find (and some handy, hidden views) (3:11)
• Using multiple Things windows (1:28)

Structuring with projects

• What is a project? (6:22)
• Creating your first project (12:50)
• Organizing larger projects with headings (10:44)
• When to use checklists (3:36)
• Moving your tasks from the inbox to areas and projects (4:34)

Working with dates

• How dates work in Things (12:43)
• How to assign dates and reminders to tasks and projects (8:24)
• Location-based reminders (using Apple Reminders) (6:06)
• The two types of repeating to-dos (8:02)
• Setting reminders and deadlines for repeating to-dos (6:44)
• Being on top of birthdays, anniversaries, etc. with Things (4:05)
• Repeating entire projects (5:18)
• Assign deadlines to your existing to-dos and projects (1:20)

Planning your days and weeks

• How to plan what to work on today (7:28)
• Planning ahead (4:16)
• Calendar event or Things task? (5:21)
• Plan your day and week now (1:34)

Stay in control with weekly reviews

• What is a weekly review and why should you make reviewing a habit? (2:49)
• The nine steps to a weekly review in Things 3 (22:44)
• Scheduling your weekly review (3:31)
• Bonus: reflect on what you’ve already completed (1:39)

Working with tags

• What are tags for? (5:21)
• Working with tags in Things (3:34)
• A few tags to get ed with (11:59)
• Incorporating tags into your workflow (3:32)

Working with project templates

• Why project templates will save you time (1:53)
• Example: weekend camping trips (4:26)
• Example: creating and using a packing list (6:44)
• Creating your own project templates (2:03)

Example use cases

• Progress update (0:54)
• Finding calm on a stressful day (6:36)
• Keeping track of groceries to buy (1:46)
• Processing to-dos after a meeting (3:38)

Pro tips

• What to do instead of tracking your goals in Things (6:57)
• Building better habits with Things (5:29)
• Reference material and Things (4:12)
• Apple’s Shortcuts app and Things (3:07)

Wrapping up

• How to do Things (😉) on iOS (10:21)
• Using Things widgets on iOS (7:39)
• Thank you! (And what’s next) (1:59)
• Course Summary & Things Cheat Sheet (PDFs)
• Before You Go…

Organize Your Life with Things 3 Course Is For You If:

• You feel overwhelmed by everything you need to do.
• You have trouble focusing.
• You want to learn a system you can trust.
• You want to learn how to get the most out of Things.
• You’ve used Things in the past, but have gotten away from it.

Organize Your Life with Things 3 Course Is Not For You If:

• You’re looking for a magic solution that requires zero effort.
• You’d rather figure everything out yourself, from scratch. (You can, but it’ll take you much longer.)
• You want to learn about Things automation.

Your Instructor

Hi, I’m Peter Akkies.

I first started teaching productivity courses in 2019. Today, I’ve taught thousands of paid students and hundreds of thousands of people on my YouTube channel.

I’m also into scuba diving, Formula 1, World War II history, and veganism.

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