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How do you guys use the “Anytime” and “Someday” sections of the app?
I find myself never touching these (maybe I don’t understand them well enough) so interested to hear how other people use them. Thanks


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6y ago
Lately I've been experimenting with this approach: Anytime is for items I can do ... uh, any time. And Someday is for items for which I need someone else to take the first step.

So "Get cash" is Today.

"Find nearer ATM" is Anytime.

"Buy bank when I win the Lottery" is Someday.

So far, it works really well for me. As always, your mileage may vary.


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Things is basically just a list manager with fancy filters to show you what you want to see at a specific time. Things uses those filters to roughly follow the GTD philosophy. Cultured Code explain their version of it on their website here:

Anytime is home for all of the to-dos you could start at any time. It’s a good place to look when putting together your Today list or planning your week in Upcoming.

Someday is the place for to-dos that you might like to get to, but you’re not sure when. Regularly review what you’ve added here to decide if it’s time to act.

Don't get too caught up in all the features. Use only those parts of Things that you find useful.


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I don’t use Anytime on its own very much because of the lack of sequencing/dependencies in Things. I can’t trust that tasks in it are legitimately next actions since they may be blocked by something else (and I’m not willing to micromanage my lists to the extent that they always could be). When I do my weekly review, I go area by area and review the Anytime tasks there. If there’s something I want to do this week, I schedule it accordingly. I may leave a task or two I could do this week, but I usually put everything I won’t be doing this week in Someday. I also use Someday for ideas I want to incubate, things I may want to do later, or delegated tasks that I have tagged with @Waiting.


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redbricktuta
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1y ago
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Old thread, commenting for future readers:

Anytime: things only end up here if they have a deadline set or are within an area/project. That means they definitely need to get done and move at least something forward. I should review this list whenever I am setting my “Today” agenda.

Someday: these are things that I want to keep on my radar but don’t have enough of a plan yet to set deadlines for.

I usually have an area like “business ideas” or “Personal Projects” then plan out the plans as a “project” with multiple tasks/ headers/ etc inside the project. I won’t mark each task as “Someday” but ill mark the whole Project itself as a Someday. That puts the project neatly categorized automatically with all its tasks on my Someday page. Once I have a deadline ill assign a deadline to the whole project and sometimes to its sub tasks as well when some things need to get done in a certain order. Setting an overall deadline on the project will move it to my Anytime list which I most frequently monitor.

Inbox should always be at zero because things either have a deadline and should be in Anytime, or don’t have a deadline and should be in Someday. Those two are your cabinets you check every time when you are deciding the “when” for a thing.



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SteerCat
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6mo ago
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Thank you from the future


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1y ago
Best way explanation I’ve read read so far. Thank you.



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redbricktuta
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1y ago
Glad its helpful even after all these years for you. Things is one of those apps that looks both simple and complex so it can take some time to understand how to best use it. The above is what I have found to be immense in keeping the must dos but also the want to dos in my mind.

Things gets really cool when you start to also tag certain areas and tasks. For example, my “Business ideas” area is entirely tagged as “Business” so everything within it will always have that tag. Great. But, sometimes I have a simple task like “reach out to friend about this permit.” That task would go under my “Personal” area so it’ll have a personal tag on it automatically, BUT I’ll also tag that specific task as business. Now when I filter my Anyday or Someday for “business” tags I’ll see my “Business Ideas” area and all its contained tasks, but ill also see that singular task from my Personal area!

This is perfect for when a task belongs to one area but it has to do with another area/ project as well and you don’t want to lose sight of that connection.



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56m ago
Thank you from the future-future. This is by far the best explanation and example for Anytime vs. Someday


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6y ago
Anytime - When I'm in the office and don't have any appointments I go to anytime and search for the tag that I want to work on. For instance, I have a "technical" tag that I go for every Monday afternoon to see witch technical activities I have to do.

Someday - Imagine a Sunday, when you feel like doing something but don't know what? I search my "Someday" to see if I'm into some projecto or task



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6y ago
Awesome. Makes sense. Thanks :)

How come some items I’ve marked as “Today” are also appearing in my “Anytime” list?



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6y ago
The way the Things works is a task has to be in Inbox, Someday,Anytime or Upcoming. Marking something for "Today" moves it to the Anytime section and makes it appear in "Today".


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6y ago
I admit I’m not really using Anytime yet. Someday is just that ... the big things that are on my list to tackle someday, or, just ideas I have that I don’t want to deal with right now. Anything that I’m not working on goes into my Someday list.

I am thinking I need to pay more attention to Anytime. I believe anything that I don’t have as today or scheduled falls into anytime. I might start using it to review looking for next actions that have come available.


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DipperDolphin
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6y ago
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I usually go into anytime when I’ve finished a task and I want to do something else. Any task without a date goes in there automatically.

Someday I use for things that I want to do by I can’t afford/not in the right circumstances to do now.


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TommyAdagio
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6y ago
I work out of my Today list, which is a subset of the Anytime list. 90% of my tasks go in Anytime, with only a few going in Someday.

I pretty much find Someday useless and ignore it.


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TrickySite0
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2y ago
Picking up an old thread. Every now and again I have a thought that "I would like to do this and don't want to forget, but I don't know how and I don't know when." Someday feels like a great place to put these tasks.


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10mo ago
Someday is for those things I might do one day while Anytime is for jobs I need to do one day. I visit these lists at least once a week and allocate time/deadlines as required.


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