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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 daniel_iversen »

arikfr wrote: post #56

If anyone is looking for an alternative that will probably be around for a long time, check out Todoist [1]: they are bootstrapped and profitable and been around for 10 years. In terms of product - it's as simple to use as Wunderlist, but does have a few extra features. And they are cross platform like Wunderlist. (I'm not affiliated with them. Just a happy user.) [1] https://todoist.com

I'd second Todoist. Its simply amazing! So easy and delightful a UI and yet it has a lot of really cool features (emailing tasks, nice to set up in a GTD environment etc.)

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

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Post by djrogers »

warholio wrote: post #101

One of the few major features I'm looking for in a to-do app is the ability to use natural language to set a due date/timer and then get a notification synched across my mac and iPhone. For example: "task xyz in 15 mins". Does anyone know an app that can do this? Todoist is very close -- you can write "task xyz in 2 hours" but for some reason cannot use "minutes".

I started using Reminders and Siri for this about 3 years ago and it's been wonderful. I don't need a lot of fancy features like GTD, sub tasks, etc, but I do use a lot of shared lists with the wife (shopping, planning, honey-do, and packing being the 4 primary ones).

The combo has been even better since I got my apple watch - you'd be amazed how quietly you can whisper 'hey Siri, remind me to blah in 20 minutes' to your watch...

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

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Post by VladimirGolovin »

AdamGibbins wrote: post #78
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…

If you need another tester I'd be happy to help out :) Currently I use OmniFocus, primarily due to the start dates which hide things until they're relevant, which so many apps (including Wunderlist) lacked. Sadly the Android support is poor and only covered by 3rd party clients that lag massively behind in functionality.

Thank you :) I've added a beta signup form at the bottom of the page: http://tuskarr.tilda.ws/

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

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Post by nileshtrivedi »

salimmadjd wrote: post #164
VladimirGolovin wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(OP here) I've set up a quick website with more detailed descriptions and some screenshots: http://tuskarr.tilda.ws/ I'm absolutely aware of the rite-of-passage thing, but I'm doing this because I NEED a proper, working todo app. My life will crumble without it. And I'm prepared spend my time and money on it. In any case, there's no going back to Wunderlist now. As for marketing, I'm not worried. All I want is a work…

I wish you had put an email sign up option in your site. You're missing out on potential alpha users.

Email form is there at the bottom.

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

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Post by walljm »

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…

> 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.

Its funny, because it true. :D

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

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Post by rvanmil »

I wonder, does buying users actually work? Doesn't this backfire more often than not?

I've been a happy Wunderlist Pro customer, but there is no way I'll be switching to this new To-Do application just because Microsoft decided to replace one with the other.

It's kind of funny and sad at the same time from my perspective. Microsoft actually paid someone so in turn they could make me angry and as a result lose me as a paying customer.

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

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Post by eps »

radiorental wrote: post #175
huhtenberg wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

> just like a Weather app is the same for UX designer wannabies 20 year UX veteran, this is the first I've heard of this (o; Not a criticism, certainly made me smile, but I've not heard or seen this before. (that said, I work mostly in enterprise, this might just be a mobile thing)

Behold... https://dribbble.com/search?q=weather+app

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

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Post by VladimirGolovin »

zild3d wrote: post #173
VladimirGolovin wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(OP here) I've set up a quick website with more detailed descriptions and some screenshots: http://tuskarr.tilda.ws/ I'm absolutely aware of the rite-of-passage thing, but I'm doing this because I NEED a proper, working todo app. My life will crumble without it. And I'm prepared spend my time and money on it. In any case, there's no going back to Wunderlist now. As for marketing, I'm not worried. All I want is a work…

It looks like something I would use, so I hope you're able to get it out there. My 2 cents - "Tuskarr supports first-class subtasks" might be a fine description on HN, but an average user won't know what that implies

I wrote this text in an hour, specifically for HN :) Of course the description for the general public will be more accessible - and supported by screenshots.

(Which reminds me that I should be doing the screenshots now.)

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

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Post by balladeer »

So after seeing a comment on this post I googled and found out Taskwarrior[0] could be a good replacement for Wunderlist (as I am looking for one since yesterday).

Full of enthusiasm I SSHed into my VPS (Ubuntu 15.04 - haven't upgraded yet) and ran sudo apt-get install task and bingo! It was there. I could add tasks and list them in the remote shell, modify them.

Then I went to https://freecinc.com and followed their awesome 1 minute guide and finished the steps except the last one task sync init which would have made the syncing, to other clients, possible. This is when I got Taskwarrior was built without GnuTLS support. Sync is not available. Landed on https://taskwarrior.org/docs/taskserver/troubleshooting-sync... and I could figure out I had to install it from source (though it was the minimum recommended version) and then also install many dependencies for the sync feature to work from source.

I am ashamed to state that after some more tinkering I still couldn't make it work and I gave up. This is one reason self hosted services are not picking up. I know it's just an excuse for lazy and non-adventrous fellows like me (a developer at that) but I tried and I failed. Sigh

Just in case others find the app interesteing: check out https://taskwarrior.org/tools/ and you can always use Dropbox anyway (which may not always work as one may expect it to).

edit: as of now I am trying https://inthe.am/getting-started

[0] https://taskwarrior.org

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

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Post by hdhdhdhdjjj777 »

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…

Apple has a iOS programming tutorial focused on writing a todo list.

So yeah, pretty common.

Unrelated, TaskWarrior ftw

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