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Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do

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Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do

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Post by kesor »

huhtenberg wrote: post #102
VladimirGolovin wrote: post #13

Damn, now I need to move faster. My app must be ready by the time they close Wunderlist. I expected an eventual closure, but not that soon. I've spent the last two years developing a todo app that would be a good replacement for Wunderlist (and Astrid, if anyone still remembers that). The app will include with some major / critical features both those apps lacked: proper hierarchies / first-class subtasks, automatica…

> I've spent the last two years developing a todo app Without seeing what you have, a general remark would be that everyone and his cousin has clocked at least some time developing at least one ToDo app. It's a right-of-passage thing for a lot of developers, just like a Weather app is the same for UX designer wannabies. BTW, what set Wunderlist apart is not the features first and foremost, but their bold in-your-face…

What set Wunderlist apart is that they have been the archive of my project ideas for the last who knows how many years. While other apps came along and disappeared, I was sure Wunderlist was just "there" when I needed it.

Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do

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Post by obsurveyor »

stymaar wrote: post #100
kuerbel wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a hard lesson to learn, but "Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning" holds true in almost all cases.

I totally agree with this statement, but here we're talking about 0.5 year of planning ! Planning is important , and cautiously thinking about your features before diving in can save you weeks later on. But spending 6 month in a tunnel, writing specs you'll spend at least a year to implement, is a huge risk : what if your users only use 30% of the features you designed, and lack a missing feature you didn't plan ? Yo…

> I totally agree with this statement, but here we're talking about 0.5 year of planning !

Yeah but that's not necessarily in man-years. Maybe he worked on it an hour or two a day. Now we're talking around two man-weeks of planning.

Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do

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Post by VladimirGolovin »

VladimirGolovin wrote: post #13

Damn, now I need to move faster. My app must be ready by the time they close Wunderlist. I expected an eventual closure, but not that soon. I've spent the last two years developing a todo app that would be a good replacement for Wunderlist (and Astrid, if anyone still remembers that). The app will include with some major / critical features both those apps lacked: proper hierarchies / first-class subtasks, automatica…

It's too late to edit my original comment, but I've set up a temporary website, where I explain this app in more detail, and show some (temporary and very messy) screenshots and designs:

http://tuskarr.tilda.ws/

Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do

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Post by r3bl »

blahblah12 wrote: post #89

It's not really killed. The original Sunrise, Accompli and Wunderlist teams still work at MSFT and they're working on their new apps respectively (Javier runs all of Outlook now). And Chad Fowler (former CTO of Wunderlist), and company are behind the pivot to To-Do. It's the exact same application. I've been beta testing it and it just has few additional features that will show up over time. It's really just a rebran…

How can I give them a chance when they kill the crucial functionality of the app that I liked?

For example, I was a heavy Sunrise user. It worked wonderfully on syncing all of my calendars and showing them all to me in one nice feed with a slick interface. I didn't have to sync my various calendars to one central service and feed all of my calendars to one company. It synced them all to my smartphone, which was a feature I was looking for. Giving all my calendars over to Microsoft... no, thank you.

Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do

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Post by cholantesh »

djsumdog wrote: post #25
cafebabbe wrote: post #9

Okay i've been fucked by several todos apps now, I think i'll switch to emacs and self-hosting...

Same here. I used Astrid, which Yahoo acqui-killed and I totally missed the memo that Microsoft owned Wunderlist.

There's a really nice, feature-complete open source clone of Astrid in the Play store. It's not quite as charming, though.

Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do

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Post by wowtip »

>ZDNet clarified with Microsoft that the app is not just for Office 365 users, as the original blog post about the launch seemed to imply. Instead, anyone with a Microsoft account can use To-Do, even if they don’t have an Office 365 plan, the company confirmed

Wonderful. More things that can be lost with a single password.

Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do

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Post by criddell »

Oh FFS. I just started using Wunderlist this week.

All I want is a todo list where I can assign tags. So maybe I would do something like:

    * buy softener salt #shopping #home
    * fix garage door weatherstripping #home
I can have saved searches for #shopping and #home. That way I don't need folders, I don't need projects. Tags can do it all.
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