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Wunderlist Users Have Until June 30 to Transfer Tasks to Microsoft's To Do App
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My understanding of OneNote is that it’s a note taking app, that may have some to-do capabilities. But note taking is the focus.
Yes. It's improved, but a few years back, I was dealing with a prospective vendor who had been acquired by MS.
Where I worked was solely a MS shop, and so I used OneNote for general note and meeting taking. They came in, thought they'd break the ice by saying 'our software is just as good as OneNote which I see you're using/like.'
OMG - at the time, it let you use 'checkboxes' to add as a 'todo' (empty checkbox) next to highlighted things, but did NOT allow you to effectively say 'show me all todos on this page, in this section, in this Notebook, or in all Notebooks' so it was pretty worthless overall.
OneNote isn't a bad tool, and I now use it daily on macOS or Windows, but I wouldn't call it a real ToDo app, IMO - certainly not compare to Things, Omnifocus, Todoist, etc.
Edited to add - went and checked if OneNote had improved RE: TODOs. Well, kind of. On Windows it will generate a PAGE for TODOs, but it’s not like you can re-order them, nor is it a dynamically generated view, so - works for ‘until you find a tool, with many caveats’ but I wouldn’t consider it a real TODO tool at all. It’s more hokey on Mac and more limited, uses the search ‘tags’ but kind of does the same thing, although can’t even filter out completed tasks from that list, so it’s literally ‘everything you’ve every added a todo checkbox next to, with or without completion’ at the moment..
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I finally had to switch from Wunderlist after many years of use.
Quick saga of things I tried after online searches of what might replace it for me. I selected paid/pro options in all cases since I want sublists (and I do like to support good, ad-free software that I use). Besides sublists, I need iPhone and Mac apps that sync quickly and reliably, and I need to be able to add new items to the top of lists, especially Inbox. This last point turns out really important. And I need to be able to sort lists manually with drag-and-drop. All the options that I tried had Wunderlist importing, which was great!
Todoist: seemed like this would do it. But, new items always go to bottom of Inbox, not top. This is a change that won't work for me and the reason I had to move on. Also: Mac app seemed to be a wrapped web-page, so felt a bit un-Mac-like. And I saw a couple glitches with Sync which made me nervous.
Remember the Milk (RTM): Oh, this looked even better. Sync felt solid. Liked the Mac app more. But... can't add new items to top of Inbox. I even asked support in case I missed that it had been added. Nope. I can see that people have been asking for the feature for years, but they just don't add it.
Ticktick: Nice. Took a while to discover Ticktick, but simple, easy, and has all the features I need. Only thing that confused me was Wunderlist import put Inbox content in a "Wunderlist_Inbox" list rather than Ticktick's Inbox list. Since I have ~15 lists, it took me a bit to see that and I thought the import wasn't working even though it was.
Looks like Ticktick is my new, great to-do list app.
Quick saga of things I tried after online searches of what might replace it for me. I selected paid/pro options in all cases since I want sublists (and I do like to support good, ad-free software that I use). Besides sublists, I need iPhone and Mac apps that sync quickly and reliably, and I need to be able to add new items to the top of lists, especially Inbox. This last point turns out really important. And I need to be able to sort lists manually with drag-and-drop. All the options that I tried had Wunderlist importing, which was great!
Todoist: seemed like this would do it. But, new items always go to bottom of Inbox, not top. This is a change that won't work for me and the reason I had to move on. Also: Mac app seemed to be a wrapped web-page, so felt a bit un-Mac-like. And I saw a couple glitches with Sync which made me nervous.
Remember the Milk (RTM): Oh, this looked even better. Sync felt solid. Liked the Mac app more. But... can't add new items to top of Inbox. I even asked support in case I missed that it had been added. Nope. I can see that people have been asking for the feature for years, but they just don't add it.
Ticktick: Nice. Took a while to discover Ticktick, but simple, easy, and has all the features I need. Only thing that confused me was Wunderlist import put Inbox content in a "Wunderlist_Inbox" list rather than Ticktick's Inbox list. Since I have ~15 lists, it took me a bit to see that and I thought the import wasn't working even though it was.
Looks like Ticktick is my new, great to-do list app.
I finally had to switch from Wunderlist after many years of use.
Quick saga of things I tried after online searches of what might replace it for me. I selected paid/pro options in all cases since I want sublists (and I do like to support good, ad-free software that I use). Besides sublists, I need iPhone and Mac apps that sync quickly and reliably, and I need to be able to add new items to the top of lists, especially Inbox. This last point turns out really important. And I need to be able to sort lists manually with drag-and-drop. All the options that I tried had Wunderlist importing, which was great!
Todoist: seemed like this would do it. But, new items always go to bottom of Inbox, not top. This is a change that won't work for me and the reason I had to move on. Also: Mac app seemed to be a wrapped web-page, so felt a bit un-Mac-like. And I saw a couple glitches with Sync which made me nervous.
Remember the Milk (RTM): Oh, this looked even better. Sync felt solid. Liked the Mac app more. But... can't add new items to top of Inbox. I even asked support in case I missed that it had been added. Nope. I can see that people have been asking for the feature for years, but they just don't add it.
Ticktick: Nice. Took a while to discover Ticktick, but simple, easy, and has all the features I need. Only thing that confused me was Wunderlist import put Inbox content in a "Wunderlist_Inbox" list rather than Ticktick's Inbox list. Since I have ~15 lists, it took me a bit to see that and I thought the import wasn't working even though it was.
Looks like Ticktick is my new, great to-do list app.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I’ll give Apple Reminders a go for now but enjoyed the read.
It’s more capable then the reminder app on iOS for instance so was using it occasionally when forced to work with windows. It’s to me more of a to do list app. Interesting !
The founder of Wunderlist just announced Superlist today:
superlistapp.com
Superlist - Tasks & AI Note Taker
Superlist is the task management app for work and home. Organize projects, meeting notes, and follow ups at the office, and keep family tasks, events, and shopping lists in order on all your devices.
superlistapp.com
I finally had to switch from Wunderlist after many years of use.
Quick saga of things I tried after online searches of what might replace it for me. I selected paid/pro options in all cases since I want sublists (and I do like to support good, ad-free software that I use). Besides sublists, I need iPhone and Mac apps that sync quickly and reliably, and I need to be able to add new items to the top of lists, especially Inbox. This last point turns out really important. And I need to be able to sort lists manually with drag-and-drop. All the options that I tried had Wunderlist importing, which was great!
Todoist: seemed like this would do it. But, new items always go to bottom of Inbox, not top. This is a change that won't work for me and the reason I had to move on. Also: Mac app seemed to be a wrapped web-page, so felt a bit un-Mac-like. And I saw a couple glitches with Sync which made me nervous.
Remember the Milk (RTM): Oh, this looked even better. Sync felt solid. Liked the Mac app more. But... can't add new items to top of Inbox. I even asked support in case I missed that it had been added. Nope. I can see that people have been asking for the feature for years, but they just don't add it.
Ticktick: Nice. Took a while to discover Ticktick, but simple, easy, and has all the features I need. Only thing that confused me was Wunderlist import put Inbox content in a "Wunderlist_Inbox" list rather than Ticktick's Inbox list. Since I have ~15 lists, it took me a bit to see that and I thought the import wasn't working even though it was.
Looks like Ticktick is my new, great to-do list app.
You might want to consider Things 3.
Just tested via hotkey entry and by default, looks like new tasks go to the top of the inbox (thought they did but wanted to confirm before writing back..).
When I was going through the yearly gyrations of 'what's out there' at last task, I'd wound up back on Things (user since pre 1.0), OmniGraffle (nice but $ and didn't see immediate must haves there), and Todoist, but everyone has person 'must do' vs 'nice to haves.'
The founder of Wunderlist just announced Superlist today:
Superlist - Tasks & AI Note Taker
Superlist is the task management app for work and home. Organize projects, meeting notes, and follow ups at the office, and keep family tasks, events, and shopping lists in order on all your devices.
Cool - hope they have an individual plan... I realize the $ is in business teams.
As a heavy user of OneNote - I don't see it as a to do app. I use ToDoIst because of the ability to use my keyboard to schedule stuff the way I want without having to click 10 times for reoccurring, etc.
For me personally, I usually brainstorm in Notability/OneNote/Paper then move that to ToDoIst.