Picking a task manager shouldn’t feel like choosing a new operating system, but todoist vs things 3 often does—because the apps reflect two very different philosophies: cross-platform collaboration vs. a polished personal workflow. If you’re deciding where your tasks should live for the next few years, the details matter. 1) Philosophy and daily workflow: fast capture vs. curated calm Todoist is built for frictionless capture and flexible organization. It’s happy to be messy on the way in: you dump tasks, tag them, assign priorities, and sort later. The killer feature is how quickly you can add tasks with natural language (“Pay rent every month on the 1st p1”). Things 3 is the opposite: it nudges you toward a calmer, curated system. Its “Today / Upcoming / Anytime / Someday” structure pushes you to triage instead of hoarding. It’s opinionated in a good way—if you like a single trusted list and you don’t want to tinker.…