Taskwarrior on Desktop and Taskwarrior + Termux on Android is the most flexible, private, open and lightweight TODO manager I've ever used. No eye candy whatsoever, just pure power. I've been using the combo for a few years now, give it a look.
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
#42Damn, 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…
Sounds great! I hope it will succeed. The MS cloud is something I prefer to stay away from.
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#43Well that sucks. I was just getting used to using Wunderlist. I guess I'll have to give dead trees another try...
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#44Seems like users need to have an (Office 365/Outlook) account with Microsoft to use To-Do. Big turndown, most of my colleagues are using Macs and have no need for Microsoft (no, not even Office), seems we need to switch (again).
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#45Damn, 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…
One thing that is great about wunderlist is the truly instant sync. Have you been able to replicate that? I vaguely remember reading an interview somewhere about how they accomplished it.
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#46Damn, 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…
> the spec is 266 pages long and took half a year just to write
How many times did you make paper/cardboard mockups and user-test the interactions?
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#47Damn, 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…
wunderlist was the only todo app for me that stuck, mostly because it was simple to use, i would drop allmost anything to wunderlist without much structure. and thats why i kept using it. keep the advanced feadures but dont let them cluter the UI .
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#48Sparrow, Sunrise, Wunderlist... all the good apps just get bought and killed.
self hosting where possible from now on for me
Wunderlist was super useful - fast, all devices in sync, excellent browser version
starting to rethink using so many hosted services now - Zerigo is closing too in 10 days - that was another service a lot of time had been invested in setting up
it feels like the better a service is the more chance the team gets borged and the app shut down
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#49Seems like users need to have an (Office 365/Outlook) account with Microsoft to use To-Do. Big turndown, most of my colleagues are using Macs and have no need for Microsoft (no, not even Office), seems we need to switch (again).
what do you use instead of MSOffice?
Re: Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
#50Does 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 th…
Well $1K is a lot of money for me :-)
But ok, I see your point. Thanks!