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To-do list app recommendations

Vincent Grovestine on December 09, 2019

Today, TechCrunch reported Microsoft to finally shut down to do list app Wunderlist on May 6, 2020. It was only a matter of time before Microsoft p...
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Kenadams9922

I used to write down my notes and make it into a reminder journal, but it became too much work, especially when I'm outside.
Not much of a fan of the "big apps", they're all pretty pricey and can be quite messy sometimes.
As a person who strives for simplicity, Quire's minimalism works best for me. Not sure if this is what you prefer, but maybe you can give it a try.
If not, then I think you can check out lists for project management softwares
I downloaded many apps from this list.

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Olivier Chauvin

Absolutely love Quire!
Our team uses it for our projects and so far its been going very well.
I love their offline syncing feature, makes everything so much easier.

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Cristina Ruth

I've struggled with this and have tried so many apps that I gave up and went back to pen and paper using the bullet journal method.

So far, so good - been using it for 2 months and ticks all your boxes above. Just needs some upfront planning at the start of the month/week and check the TODOs daily to see what I have for today.

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Vincent Grovestine

My wife keeps a bullet journal. It works for her, but the setup is too much overhead for me. (Call it laziness or instant gratification.)

I find a basic steno notebook with daily bulleted lists does the trick for quick workday tasks, and a personal kanban board made with sticky notes handles the longer duration stuff.

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Cristina Ruth

That's basically what I do - I just applied the concepts of future log, monthly spreads and weekly spreads from bullet journaling.

I can't make it artsy (like a bunch you see under bullet journaling) coz I already don't have a lot of time and I'm lazy as well. ๐Ÿ˜

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Giorgi Chumburidze • Edited

I personally tried really a lot of apps but so far google calendars reminders have been the best, it's part of the app that I anyway use daily and its easy to use + really like the design. Bigger things I keep in notes for which I use Dropbox Paper. So there are tasks in progress for the current day and as a todo list, I put tasks in future dates.

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Douglas Rogers • Edited

Todoist seems to be the best tool to fit your needs. I know this may not meet one of your specifications (It's only available for MacOS) but Things app has been great to me. The next best thing is TickTick. It has a webapp, so basically it is. Notion is also a great tool but a tad "hammer on a baby toy" for a simple To-do app replacement, IMO. But it also has a webapp.

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Mark Harvey

I am a Todoist and Notion person. I got different lists for work projects and generally being alive.

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dennislwm

This todo app checks most of your list:

github.com/johannesjo/super-produc...

In addition: Open-source

P/S I'm not the author, but I have it in my list of apps to download and use.

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Manuele J Sarfatti

I've been using claro.today/, it's a sort of minimal digital bullet journal very well made. It doesn't have notifications but it's worth a look!