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

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Post by brunoqc »

dgrabla wrote: post #72
darklajid wrote: post #60

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How do you sync between devices?

The desktop runs a cron job to sync every X minutes with a taskwarrior server on an amazon instance. The cellphone syncs manually, or you can automate a sync installing Taskwarrior for Android. The UI of this Taskwarrior for Android app is not very good for me, but it allows you to sync the taskdata files every X minutes if you want. You only need to make sure to point the app to the termux .task folder so both the T…

Do you use a special keyboard like Hacker's Keyboard for Taskwarrior CLI?

EDIT: I just found out about the Volume Up+Q thing, maybe I don't need another keyboard. I would prefer it that way so I can swipe when typing new tasks.

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

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Post by VladimirGolovin »

developer2 wrote: post #234
VladimirGolovin wrote: post #216

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Yes, we started on Android, because that's the most efficient way for me to dogfood the app. Another reason why we didn't start developing for more platforms in parallel is that the concept was unproven. I wasn't sure it would work. (Under "the concept" I mostly mean the approach where all non-snoozed or dateless tasks are shown in Today, and you swipe away the tasks that are not yet "ripe" to be done -- whereas in t…

First of all, clearly the advice I'm giving is a bit too early for where you are at presently. I think that's giving credit to you for the quality of the work you are producing. Basically, I want this app. You might want to dial back just a tad on the intricate details, out of fear you may wind up never shipping an initial version. Being a software dev myself, I understand that you could spend another year (hell, eve…

Being a software dev myself, I understand that you could spend another year (hell, even 2-3 years) completely hashing out every minute detail.

I won't do that :) I stopped working on the spec the moment I handed it down to coders, and my total time spent on the spec since then is around one week. When the spec is written well, and you simulated all important situations in your head before encountering them in the wild, you actually don't need much extra time.

There's almost no tinkering happens on the app right now. I'm fixing critical bugs and smoothing out rough details that manifested after months of my dogfooding.

Regarding the desktop solutions: yes, going native would be perfect, but that is not feasible for a 4-man team. We'll go with Electron or Xamarin or, less likely, Qt - we haven't decided on the exact technology yet.

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

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Post by sjm »

chimeracoder wrote: post #114
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

Seconding Todoist. I've tried every to-do app/service around, and they're the best I've found. It's not perfect - there are a few parts of the app that annoy me and can't be configured the way I need[0], but of all the ones I've tried, it's the closest to what I need. [0] If anyone from Todoist sees this, I'd be happy to go into more detail about what those are.

I work at Doist — would love to get some feedback from you. My email is simon -emailcharacterthing- doist.com.

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

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Post by edditoria »

So sad and need to find/create an alternative.

For me, Wunderlist is well done in offline access, super fast sync and a battery-friendly Mac app. I sometimes work in some place that does not allow internet connection, e.g. warehouse where phone signal is screwed, or some meeting rooms just block the signal due to their privacy.

In many years I still cannot find an alternative. May be Evernote(?)

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

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Post by manuelflara »

mattferderer wrote: post #197
manuelflara wrote: post #23

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

Which features is it lacking? I'm surprised no one has re-made Sunrise. It was the defacto calendar app until it was bought & killed... I mean migrated into Outlook.

For example, automatically importing events I have on Facebook

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

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Post by radiorental »

eps wrote: post #187
radiorental wrote: post #175

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> 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

I'd argue that's visual design. A subset of UX.

UX primarily starts with user research, then a metric shiton of postit notes, paper prototypes, a bit of testing and then some hi fidelity mockups

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

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Post by w4tson »

Etheryte wrote: post #64
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

The Todoist sign-up page now has a migration tool: "Coming from Wunderlist? Import your tasks." If that isn't timely reaction to a market need then I don't know what is.

Done. Cheers! Took 15 mins once I'd faffed about and organised things. Plus the Alexa integration works a charm!

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

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Post by darekkay »

msq wrote: post #211
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

Pity that backup is only available for premium users, so it is a vendor locking service :/

Feel free to use my (open source) Todoist backup tool[0], which doesn't require a premium account and which is even more powerful than the built-in premium option. You can both export more data and use a format which is more suitable for data processing. Read my blog post[1] for more information.

[0] https://darekkay.com/todoist-export/

[1] https://darekkay.com/2014/12/14/todoist-export-tool/

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