Comments on: Syncing ‘Things’ Across Multiple Computers with Dropbox

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:53:57 +0000

Here’s a youtube video showing how to do this also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGEXvRMZgRQ

By: Steinar Knutsen

Steinar Knutsen — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:07:53 +0000

Sweet! Things apps now synced with Dropbox across 2 Macs, iPhone and iPad. Already getting more done!

By: vika

vika — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:25:06 +0000

@maren Syncing via a mobile device is what I tried first, and it’s a righteous mess. Areas get renamed, for one thing. Also, at my workplace I have to create a computer-to-computer network any time I want to sync (I think the wireless setup here throws my devices on different subnets), and that’s a big pain. Finally, the little four-digit code that Things makes you enter on a mobile device only works with one copy of it, so you’d have to remove and add the device every time you sync.

@Chris Thank you, that was elegant and easy.

By: shuchii

shuchii — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:57:14 +0000

Things and Dropbox joined together in utter awesomeness! Thanks man :-)

By: maren

maren — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:10:16 +0000

Has anyone tried syncing via a mobile device? I am about to get a second machine and was hoping to be able to install Things there and use my iPod version to sync (it seems to work well with resolving conflicts when syncing with the lappy). I can’t wait for them to finish the cloud-based db, but till then…???

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:58:55 +0000

Thank you! I was fighting iDisk for hours trying to get THINGS syncing between my Tower and MacBook Pro– and getting sync errors and all sorts of inconsistencies.

Finally gave up on it and that’s when I stumbled upon your page.

Got things up and syncing in about 5 minutes flat on Dropbox and it’s working flawlessly. Thanks again.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:10:12 +0000

What’s amazing is that things killer feature (integration with mail to drag and drop emails into tasks) seems to work *across* machines. I.e. you can drop an email into a task on machine a, fire up things on the other (and mail) and assuming the mail has arrived clicking the link opens the same mail.

Props to culturecode – they may not have implemented sync, but the mail integration is clean.

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:18:31 +0000

I have the same problem for sure. You just gotta be careful to only have ONE or THE OTHER open at any given time, otherwise you’ll write over each other and lose stuff.

By: Clark Bennett

Clark Bennett — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:16:05 +0000

I am using Dropbox to sync Things on my desktop and laptop and it is working flawlessly. I’ve been careful to avoid having Things running on both computers at the same time because of the warnings on this and other websites – but – I don’t why that is necessary and hope someone can explain.

It seems to me that if the Things folder is in the Dropbox it will always be up to date (assuming a functioning internet connection).

Where am I wrong? Thanks.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:08:49 +0000

I am using live.sync to accomplish syncing the two directories but really this approach is still very imperfect regardless of what is syncing the database.

If I forget to close Things on my home computer and I make a bunch of changes on my work computer, when I get home and try to close Things it updates it’s database and overwrites everything. Disaster!