Argh. My partner and I use Wunderlist daily for shared shopping lists. This endless churn of apps shutting down is so frustrating :(
For Android, Bring! is great.
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
#32Does anyone here understand the rationale of buying a To-do app company for $100 million and then killing it?
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#33Oh dear, oh dear. I use Wunderlist on Mac, and very recently wrote to my entire team about how I tried so many Todo apps over the years and how Wunderlist is the only thing that worked out. Now what do I do?
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#34Okay 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
I've started using Standard Notes, but it kind of feels like it's still beta.
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#35Sparrow, Sunrise, Wunderlist... all the good apps just get bought and killed.
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#36It was a pretty interesting company: http://chadfowler.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderlist
Duncan Davidson (Photographer, Creator of Ant & Tomcat) also works there.
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#37Bugger. After 5 years of on-off trying todo lists, I'd finally got to like Wunderlist. Now I guess I'm back to Todoist, which I've never felt any affection for.
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#38Argh. 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.
I mustn't be the only who thinks it's ironic to move to a Google product/service in hope of avoiding something disappearing. ;)
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#39Does anyone here understand the rationale of buying a To-do app company for $100 million and then killing it?
$100 million for them are like $1K for you. So it's not like they are particularly frugal (or need to be) with those.
For what they paid, they got a team that knew how to build a To-Do app, what the challenges are, and how to scale it.
So they bought not having to deal with a dev team that is building a to-do app for the first time.
They also got some existing users (which will migrate) for free, but I don't think they care for that.
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#40Okay 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
That's why I use todo.txt TaskWarrior and org mode are interesting as well. I have to look into differences between then.