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by rahul003 3351 days ago
It's interesting, an intelligent version of how Any.Do makes you plan your day every morning with the tasks you have added. But why couldn't they build it on top of all the features that wunderlist already provides. It is very basic right now.

No collaborative lists, no assignment of todos, no subtasks, no marking priority of todo, no grouped lists.

One step forward (maybe), 10 steps backward. Why should I as a user care whether an app is new and will improve features over time?

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The most valuable part of Any.Do for me is the way the notification nags work. When something pops up, it takes the bare minimum of clicks to select when I want to be nagged again, and then it nags me again at that time. The way it pops up at the bottom of your screen as an overlay on top of whatever else is also part of its brilliance instead of getting lost in my list of notifications (on Android).

I really hope this integrates something like that. A ToDo app is only as useful as it is religiously used and followed-through on. I often forget to go back and mark things as complete, or even to check what I have coming up. So the ability to just constantly nag myself until it gets done, at which point I can mark it complete at the next nag is critical.

On that note, if anyone has any handy documentation links on how to code something for Android that does the pop-up notifications with button options like Any.Do has, I'd love to read up as I have an idea I want to test with that approach for another area of my life.

Another feature it is lacking straight out the gate is being able to read things like "Pick up milk tomorrow at 3 pm" and then automatically set the due date for tomorrow at 3 pm. (Even Wunderlist did that.) It is definitely an early stages product. Unless it comes out with some incredible feature, I'm sticking to Todoist.
With the current landscape of To-do list market (Any.do, Wunderlist, Todoist, etc. etc. etc.) this doesn't even feel like a MVP, more like an early alpha without the label.
You should actually remove Wunderlist from your list since their team announced that they will no longer be working on the product. They are working on Microsoft's To-Do now.
It will still exist as a product for awhile though, so I think it warrants it place on the list even if I transitioned over to Todoist a few months ago.
Todoist is fantastic. The only thing I'd like to see them add - maybe - would be the ability to start, suspend, and finish tasks and to time them.
I transitioned to Todoist as well. I really love its rich feature list.

Wunderlist hasn't given an exact date for when they are retiring the product but they have said it will be retired at some point. (Probably once the feature list of To-Do moves up to where Wunderlist is.)

The huge downside, IMHO, is that they decided to reinvent the wheel completely instead of using existing standard for file-format (icalendar?), sync(caldav), etc. :(