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Microsoft To-Do — An intelligent task management app
Microsoft To-Do is a simple and intelligent to-do list from the Wunderlist team. Whether it's for work, school or home, To-Do will help you increase your productivity and decrease your stress levels.
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Eric Friedman
I hope this lives up to the quality and amazing features of Wunderlist - I have hope in MSFT
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@livejamie Wunderlist will eventually be shut down as per MSFT. To-Do is being created by the same Wunderlist team but still there are a lot of Wunderlist features which are not ported to To-Do yet.
@pravilz It's all set to run inside Office365 with subscription shite as always. To start, you need using a hotmail/live/outlook/O365 account, plus all the plans to kill and embed.
It's the same as trying to fit a Ferrari into a frikking Renault 4L..
@lyondhur Yea, I think we're saying the same thing. Their preview requires a Microsoft Account right now, not sure if they will expand to other accounts gmail/fb GroupMe + Outlook do this, but I meant that a Microsoft Account doesn't have to be a hotmail/live/outlook/O3665 account. All I meant was that you can register any email address as the username or just use a phone number.
I am such a huge fan of this app. Honestly. I understand you're all mad here because they're going to shut down WunderList and this is not WunderList, but for me personally, it's already the most perfectly *useful* to-do list I've ever used. And I've used most of them, including $50 spent on Things between Mac and iOS, which was my previous mainstay.
The main thing is very simple but very thoughtful, that it clears your main list with each new day, and requires you to be deliberate about what goes on it each day (offering some suggestions, but only if you want them).
The iPhone app is really well designed. Honestly, i like it more than Wunderlist (personal opinion).
Shutting down Wunderlist is not the best move I'd say, but good for Microsoft on trying new exciting stuff on existing platforms (iOS, macOS, Linux).
p.s. check the Outlook iPhone app, it's amazing (not like the desktop version)
Replacing wunderlist is a huge task. Crash on my iPhone 6. Not a pleasant first experience. Let's see in few months
@tomfme tough times. Acompli is arguably better as Outlook, however its calendaring functionality still lags far behind what Sunrise offered. Hopefully Wunderlist doesn't suffer the same fate.
@tomfme Idk, if this is entirely fair. Acompli is really just Outlook with a rename. Wunderlist team made a new app, that's an evolution of their older app. I was a bit sad to see Sunrise team decide to fold their app and add features into the core Outlook app, though :(
@weiluenhuang @tomfme I beg to differ on this app being an evolution of Wunderlist. As a Wunderlist power user, I think this app is a major disappointment. Requiring me to login, right out of the gates, with a Microsoft account, is strike one. An image with "My Day" taking up 40% of my mobile screen is strike two.
@tomfme thought the same thing. Ridiculous isn't it! Shall we throw in Zune and Nokia? :)
Looks good, but so many To-Do apps out there, so many! Hard to differentiate one from the other and it's too much effort to move to a different app that provides only an incremental benefit.
👋 Hey guys at Microsoft! You acquired WunderList, which was compatible with all the platforms I use, and synced seamlessly between my iPhone-Mac-Apple Watch and even Kindle. Now you're shutting it down in favour of 'Microsoft To-Do', and you didn't release the Mac App! Can you explain this? I am furious. 😡
I had begun to wonder whether I had been wrong and this day would never come, but it has. Time to find a new todo app. It's unlikely to be this one.
The design feels familiar, and cleaner – which I like – but are missing a few key things:
+ Ability to add people and share lists
+ Missing subtasks – an excellent, much-used feature
+ The import tool doesn't seem to work for me...I've tried several times
+ Create folders – again, seems basic, why remove this functionality?
+ Desktop companion – web-only is fine, but I personally like an offline tool
@jbriscoe I add also : + OFF LINE editing and adding information. That's why i'm using Wunderlist!
No natural language input like Wunderlist had; seems like a huge step backwards to me.
@nostradamion Someone needs to explain to microsoft that "Fail Fast" does not mean "Kill Fast". They seem to have taken "Fail Fast" as their real motto.
Another reason why it's a load of crap - Just click on the blue link at the bottom of their page https://todo.microsoft.com/en-us/
To even out all the bad vibes from killing off products, I'd say their explainer video is well done! I resonated with it. However, I'm not jumping to switch from Todoist. Too much there already.
