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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

#22
Oh, this is disappointing. Any app launched as a result of killing a long-running service now carries the added risk of "when are you going to kill this, too?".

Won't be touching this, have a lot of history in Wunderlist I'll now need to figure out how to move elsewhere.

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

#23
post #7

Goddammit, 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?

Not OP, but as an iOS alternative I use Fantastical, but lacks several important features that Sunrise had. Still looking for a real alternative.

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

#24

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…

And then one day a tech giant will contact you for acquisition and ....... :|

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

#26

Sad news, Wunderlist was very handy. Does anyone have a recommendation for a similar app with shared lists? To-Do doesn't handle this (or a bunch of WL functionality for that matter)

Google Keep, as suggested by others here. I'm sceptical though, since I'm using both apps now but feel that they are very complementary. Might just be habit.

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

#29
post #7

Goddammit, 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 initially thought that you said they sunset Calendar (Google Calendar) and I freaked out thinking that I'd missed the announcement.

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

#30

If any other news site would submit this article it would be marked as "blog spam" and replaced with the original announcement, which is here: https://blogs.office.com/2017/04/19/introducing-microsoft-to...

Then the headline would get changed to "Introducing Microsoft To-Do—now available in Preview", and everyone would be confused.
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