Things
Complete, cancel, and star
Completing, canceling and starring are three separate marks, and they mean different things a year later.
Why you'd care
Most apps have one. Checking something off and deciding not to do it get recorded identically, so your history says you did work you never did. NewTwos keeps them apart on purpose.
The three
| Mark | Shortcut | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Complete | ⌘D | You did it. It stops carrying over and stays on the day you finished it. |
| Cancel | ⌘⇧D | You decided not to. It stops carrying over and is struck through. |
| Star | ⌘⇧S | It matters. Collected in the Stars view, independent of the other two. |
All three toggle. Pressing the same shortcut again undoes the mark.
Going further
Completion is a date, not a flag. A to-do you finish three weeks after writing it records the day you finished, not the day you wrote it. That is what makes scrolling back through days an honest record rather than a plan.
Cancel is worth using. Deleting a to-do you abandoned erases the decision. Canceling keeps it, and reading back "decided not to" is genuinely useful later.
Starring is not a priority system. There are no levels. It is a single flag meaning "I want to find this again", and the Stars view is where it lands.
Only to-dos care. Completing a note does nothing meaningful, because notes never carried over in the first place. See carry-over.
Settings that change this
- Settings Lists & <i>Things</i> Show completed <i>things</i> inline keeps completed things in place or collapses them into their own section.
- Settings Lists & <i>Things</i> Completed to-dos at top puts finished things above rather than below.
- Settings Appearance & Accessibility Circle checkboxes switches between round and square checkboxes.
Tips
- Check things off even when nobody is watching. The record is the payoff, not the satisfaction.
- If a to-do has carried for two weeks, cancel it rather than deleting it. You will be glad of the trail.