Okay i've been fucked by several todos apps now, I think i'll switch to emacs and self-hosting...
Did that one year ago and have never been happier with my todo and references setup!
Good luck to you^^
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
#12Okay i've been fucked by several todos apps now, I think i'll switch to emacs and self-hosting...
Especially with the Android-Apps that support org-mode, this actually isn't too bad of a setup.
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#13Damn, 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, automatically-activated contexts (e.g. location), snooze for arbitrary durations, a robust implementation of recurring tasks, and an infinite calendar-like timeline to look ahead.
I went full waterfall on it, the spec is 266 pages long and took half a year just to write. I'm currently testing an Android alpha version, and, for me, it works ridiculously well, much better than Wunderlist, which sat on my homescreen since August 2013.
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#14Argh. My partner and I use Wunderlist daily for shared shopping lists. This endless churn of apps shutting down is so frustrating :(
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#15Okay i've been fucked by several todos apps now, I think i'll switch to emacs and self-hosting...
The thing is, for something critical, you should not use a software that doesn't have:
- an open source self hostable implementation, even if they offer a paid instance to ease your life.
- an open format in which you can get your todos entries
- an offline client that will still work even if the online instance closes
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#16Goddammit, first Sunrise Calendar and now Wunderlist? :( I feel like I'll just go back to Reminders again, and try to stick with standard clients for these things...
I really miss Sunrise, have you found a good replacement for it?
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#17Argh. My partner and I use Wunderlist daily for shared shopping lists. This endless churn of apps shutting down is so frustrating :(
I use Google Keep for this. Works well enough. When Microsoft bought Wunderlist I moved away from it as I guessed it would be replaced by a lesser product (at least initially) and probably folded into Office 365.
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#18Okay i've been fucked by several todos apps now, I think i'll switch to emacs and self-hosting...
The thing is, for something critical, you should not use a software that doesn't have: - an open source self hostable implementation, even if they offer a paid instance to ease your life. - an open format in which you can get your todos entries - an offline client that will still work even if the online instance closes
Yup, totally agree. Lesson learned!
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#19Argh. My partner and I use Wunderlist daily for shared shopping lists. This endless churn of apps shutting down is so frustrating :(
I use Google Keep for this. Works well enough. When Microsoft bought Wunderlist I moved away from it as I guessed it would be replaced by a lesser product (at least initially) and probably folded into Office 365.
Good tip - cheers. The other alternative I was looking at was Remember The Milk.
I guess at least when it's a todo-list app that's shutting down, there are a lot of alternatives to move to!
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#20Damn, 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 do remember Astrid! it was my goto app when I first got a smartphone.
I use WP8 day to day but dabble in Android, I'd love to give your app a spin...