I've been using Things on iOS for a long time and I should say their desktop pricing for me is worth the money and investment. I understand its pricey because it is just a one time payment. As a father, husband and dev juggling between work and family it is just a task to keep up with everything.
This is awesome. I too work on mobile app development. I started on Java way back where I use Eclipse IDE for Android development. Then the transition to Android Studio, I remember I was an early AS adopter around version 0.8. Then I started Swift also the same as you, around 2014. Then another transition to Kotlin. I am not sure if I'm a niche programmer but I want to stay in this lane until I get old and for me as someone who's approaching 40 this is a little bit worrying. But reading your story is awesome and gave me hope.
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Nothing fancy, but where I'm from coding/technical blogs are very kinda rare. I mainly talk about mobile development. Thank you for visiting.
I won't make it without Fantastical and Things. With family, kids and coding hobby projects it is just difficult for everything to be organized without this tools.