Things
· #258 most-usedYour trusted to-do list for Mac and iPhone — captured and managed by your agent
Things is the award-winning personal task manager by Cultured Code, available on Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro. It organises your to-dos into Areas and Projects, surfaces what matters today in its Today view, and syncs across all your Apple devices via Things Cloud. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can create to-dos and full project structures in Things from any trigger — a CRM stage change, an incoming email, a Notion brief, or a GitHub issue — with the right tags, scheduled dates, deadlines, and notes already set, so your task list reflects reality without any manual entry.
Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual effort of creating, dating, and tagging Things to-dos by hand after every trigger event across CRM, helpdesk, email, and project tools.
What your Things agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
Things × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
New Notion brief instantly becomes a structured Things project
When a new project brief is created in Notion, the agent reads the title, owner, deadlines, and checklist sections, then creates a fully structured Things project with matching headings and pre-populated tasks — and posts a confirmation to the project Slack channel so the team knows the task structure is ready before the kickoff call.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales20 min / weekManual proposal follow-up tracking
Reps manually create a Things to-do after sending each proposal, or rely on memory — follow-ups are missed on busy weeks and proposals go cold.
Sales Agent0 minAgent creates follow-up tasks the moment a proposal is sentWhen a deal moves to Proposal Sent in HubSpot, the agent creates a Things to-do scheduled two days out with the deal link in the notes — the rep has a follow-up task before they close the CRM tab.
- Marketing25 min / weekManual campaign project setup in Things
Marketers manually create a Things project, add headings, and type in template tasks for each new campaign — a 15-20 minute setup ritual repeated for every brief.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent builds campaign project structures from briefsWhen a campaign brief is created in Notion, the agent creates a full Things project with headings and template tasks from the brief content — the campaign manager has a working task structure before the first briefing call.
- Customer Support30 min / weekManual escalation task entry
Support leads manually create a Things to-do for each escalated ticket, copying the ticket number and customer name from the helpdesk — a repetitive step done multiple times a day under pressure.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent captures escalations into Things within about a minuteWhen a ticket is escalated, the agent creates a tagged Things to-do for the support lead with the ticket number and customer context in the notes — no copy-paste between helpdesk and task manager.
- Human Resources20 min / weekManual onboarding project setup
HR coordinators manually create a Things project and add onboarding tasks for each new hire — a 20-minute setup repeated every hiring cycle, with inconsistent task lists each time.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent scaffolds onboarding projects in Things for every new hireWhen a new hire is confirmed, the agent creates a complete Things onboarding project with headings, tasks, and 30/60/90-day check-in to-dos pre-scheduled to the right dates.
- Finance15 min / weekManual invoice task entry
Finance team manually creates a Things to-do for each incoming invoice — checking the due date, typing the vendor name, and setting the deadline by hand every time a new invoice arrives.
Finance Agent0 minAgent creates invoice payment tasks with hard deadlines automaticallyWhen an invoice is logged in the tracking sheet, the agent creates a Things to-do with the payment due date as a hard deadline and vendor details in the notes — payment obligations are always visible in Things Upcoming.
- Operations15 min / weekManual weekly task setup
Ops leads manually re-enter the same recurring tasks in Things every Monday morning — a 15-minute ritual of copy-pasting last week's tasks and updating their scheduled dates.
Operations Agent0 minAgent generates the week's recurring ops tasks automatically each MondayAt 8 AM every Monday, the agent creates the full set of recurring operational to-dos in Things — vendor check-ins, SLA reviews, audit reminders — each scheduled to the correct day, with no manual entry.
- Legal15 min / weekManual contract review task entry
Legal team manually creates a Things to-do for each inbound contract — reading the email, noting the counterparty and deadline, creating the task, and setting the date — repeated for every NDA, SOW, and addendum.
Legal Agent0 minAgent creates contract review tasks with deadlines from emailWhen a contract arrives by email, the agent extracts the counterparty and response deadline, creates a Things to-do with a hard deadline, and tags it for filtering — the legal team has a tracked task within about a minute of receiving the contract.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on Things's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~1.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug Things into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
Connects to Things via the jimfilippou/things-mcp MCP server, which uses Things' native URL scheme to send commands directly to the app on your Mac. Things must be running on macOS for operations to execute.
Find Things in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default. Things must be installed and running on your Mac.
Actionist installs the jimfilippou/things-mcp server and connects to Things via its URL scheme. No OAuth window or API key is needed for creating and reading tasks.
For update and complete operations, generate a Things authorisation token in Things → Settings → General → Enable Things URLs → Manage, and paste it into the optional token field.
14 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
0 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.
Skills that pair with Things
Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.
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MCP servers that work with Things
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A Model Context Protocol server that provides seamless integration with the Things productivity app. Enables AI assistants to create, update, and manage todos and projects in Things using its comprehensive URL scheme.