Integrating with the Things app
As part of my never-ending quest to Realize My Potential™, I’ve long been using the Things app ( on my iPhone ; on macOS ) for a variety of things, but especially including keeping track of tasks I need to do. One thing that’s always bugged me, though, is you can’t attach files to Things entries. My hacked together solution, for now, is to keep a folder on a cloud service, and to create UUID-named directories under that folder, and to include a note in the Things entry that includes the UUID so I can easily find the files I need to reference for that task. It’s a kludge, but it’s a workable one. Things has a basic API . (There are other ways of interfacing with Things, but this is the one I’m currently using / exploring.) From Terminal, I ran: open "things:///version" Which caused this to pop up: Easy so far. I of course enabled it. Next step: Actually add a task to the Inbox. (This is even more of a kludge, it doesn’t properly URL encode the user input, but I’m not likely to...