I’ll let them respond, but they released a podcast episode in late 2025, Tools Check-In. They discuss reminders and many other topics of interest.
podcasts.apple.com
I’ve considered using Reminders for many years, and it’s never stuck. It’s also a UI issue for me. Not editing, but display. There’s no way to hide information in the notes field when viewing the list, so scanning presents a mixture of actionable titles and reference information. The font size and color are too similar for my aging eyes. If one were to pry my paper system from me, I’d move back to Things.
While iCloud sync does work reliably, it can be sluggish, depending on the app. Things sync is generally quite fast, and I suspect Cultured Code has decided iCloud is not up to their standards.
And that is a smart decision and God bless them for not charging for it.
@mcogilvie After your recommendation I am a happy user of Bear (notes). It uses iCloud and synchronization works flawlessly and is super fast. I understand that Nozbe and Todoist use their own servers because they are multiplatform. But Things is Apple only…
I'm confused are your contexts this
or this 
? And I've never understood Personal and Work. I thought GTD was to integrate one life into one system. In other words I have all projects on one list with the next action in context. Don't contexts of work and home adjust that so there are no conflicts? Do you keep two calendars?Cultured Code assumes a hierarchy: areas, projects, and actions, with contexts implemented as tags if you use them. After trying lots of different ideas, that is what I do. I use the Today list as well, which is not vanilla HTD but ok with David Allen. I use both project view and context view. There’s a vanilla GTD implementation in the David Allen setup guide too.
So not to belabor the point, but if it's today wouldn't you be in todays context? You could have a today next action you can't do because you are not in the correct context. And if it is due today shouldn't it be on your calendar. I feel that is the entire point of GTD is not to have daily to dos but have actions in context where you can do them. "Today" seems like a sub optimal context. And if you don't do the action today then you have to move it and then today isn't the right context for it to be in.
Today is a daily list of possible tasks, not a context. It isncludes all next actions which are due today, all next actions which are scheduled to start today (like a tickler file), and any next actions you want to put on the Today list for any reason. All actions show what projects or area they belong to. They also can have context tags, and you can filter this list (or any list) by context or other tags. Changing anything is very fast and I think intuitive. The Today view also optionally shows your Apple calendar for today, including any Google calendar entries et cetera linked in.
