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Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

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Re: Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

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Don't Microsoft own Wunderlist? My theory is that if you observe a large cluster of developers for long enough, todo apps simply manifest into being. None as good as Lanes though, https://lanes.io . Obviously ;)

On OSX Chrome 57 I'm getting this making it mostly unusable for me parse anything. Its going out of the page and without even a scroller http://imgur.com/a/SpgNy

Re: Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

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post #8

Don't Microsoft own Wunderlist? My theory is that if you observe a large cluster of developers for long enough, todo apps simply manifest into being. None as good as Lanes though, https://lanes.io . Obviously ;)

I was greeted with: "Hey undefined. Lanes has been updated. See what's new:" love this kind of shit haha

Possible solutions:

A. Are you sure your name is not undefined?

B. Perhaps you can change your name to undefined to fix this issue.

:P I'll get on this.

Re: Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Click-away to close is added, will be live soon. The cap on social features is a temp step while I design the process flow, so won't be around for long. Let me have a think about recurring tasks. Catch me via Twitter or in-app chat if you don't see any move on this in the next week. Cheers.

Nice, it's great to hear a developer responding like this. I've pinned lanes.io in my browser I'll keep checking back. One last thing, don't suppose you have an api? I'd really like to display my next task on my desktop status bar.

No API just yet as design still in flux, but stay tuned.

Re: Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

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post #61
post #8

Don't Microsoft own Wunderlist? My theory is that if you observe a large cluster of developers for long enough, todo apps simply manifest into being. None as good as Lanes though, https://lanes.io . Obviously ;)

On OSX Chrome 57 I'm getting this making it mostly unusable for me parse anything. Its going out of the page and without even a scroller http://imgur.com/a/SpgNy

Yikes, my media query game is weak. Will fix.

Re: Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

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Don't Microsoft own Wunderlist? My theory is that if you observe a large cluster of developers for long enough, todo apps simply manifest into being. None as good as Lanes though, https://lanes.io . Obviously ;)

Very nice. The design makes me really want to use it. Does it sync calendar and tasks with Exchange/Office365?

No sync with 3rd party APIs just yet, but planned.

Re: Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

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To do lists need less "simplicity" and more artifical intelligence. Imagine that you were jotting down things to do for a personal assistant to organize and clarify for you.

* Text entry should be free form. I want to scribble a note to myself, or mumble something into my phone as it crosses my mind - I'm ADD, any step, however minute, between the thought crossing my mind and being recorded risks it being lost forever.

* Repeated tasks should be noticed and auto entered (always go food shopping, and do laundry on Sunday?)

* Tasks should be grouped automatically. Lots of "buy this" or "pick up that" and "meet there" can be organized pretty easily.

* Things to remember are different from tasks. I have to go food shopping - that's a task. Each item in that shopping list isn't a separate task.

* Tasks don't live by themselves. Phone numbers, email addresses, directions, instructions all need to be recorded, used and not lost because that tasks was marked as complete.

* Some to do items are never complete: Exercise, regular checkups, eating right, going to sleep on time. Your personal assistant would remind you about these things.

* Automatically breakdown to-dos into steps. You write down, "get coffee filters", your task assistant adds in "open Amazon.com, log in, search for coffee filters, hit buy now."

* Reminders and alerts and other ways of getting in your face is the principal 80% of tasks. Writing it down is simple and easy. Actually remembering, then doing the tasks suck.

* Done lists are great as well - don't just hide tasks once they're done, show a daily list of things accomplished. Get a seinfeldesque checkbox for completing all your tasks.

Re: Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

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The requirement that Wunderlist never met is the ability to VERY QUICKLY from ANY screen add a to-do without CONTEXT SWITCHING. Todoist was the only one that provided this 3 years ago with a sticky notification in Android. I was a paid user for 1 out of 3 years (not currently paying). I would pay if the price was closer to the LastPass pro price, $1 per month, $12 per year

I used the Cortana integration with Wunderlist for that. (It was Cortana that suggested Wunderlist in the first place.) If there is one thing that the speech recognition assistants can do very well, it's be a thing I can yell TODO items at and have track for me.

Re: Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

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To do lists need less "simplicity" and more artifical intelligence. Imagine that you were jotting down things to do for a personal assistant to organize and clarify for you. * Text entry should be free form. I want to scribble a note to myself, or mumble something into my phone as it crosses my mind - I'm ADD, any step, however minute, between the thought crossing my mind and being recorded risks it being lost foreve…

I built a list app with some of those features, but I ended up favouring simpler things.

Although I would love a smarter shopping list that tracks my purchasing patterns and makes suggestions based on what it thinks I'm likely to need

Re: Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

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To do lists need less "simplicity" and more artifical intelligence. Imagine that you were jotting down things to do for a personal assistant to organize and clarify for you. * Text entry should be free form. I want to scribble a note to myself, or mumble something into my phone as it crosses my mind - I'm ADD, any step, however minute, between the thought crossing my mind and being recorded risks it being lost foreve…

Why complicate to-do lists even more, though? As soon as you try to make them smart, you risk them doing something you didn't want, and then having to manually fix it, which is irritating. If I want a repeated task, I'll set up a recurring calendar event/task for it. If I want to group tasks in a certain way, I can do it myself. And if I have to get coffee filters, I don't need four separate steps to tell me how to get coffee filters.

What about a simple notebook?

Re: Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

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I've found that nothing works for me like a written list -- it's the act of writing out the to-do that helps me remember it for some reason (I usually don't have to look at it again if I've written it, but I won't remember if I've typed it -- I've tried a bunch of different formats). Plus I take a weird pleasure in manually crossing items off.
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