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Wunderlist is still alive as Microsoft todo though isn't it?

by tryptophan 5y ago

mdoms 5y ago
I think it's a totally different product? Could be wrong though.
- LightG 5y ago
  It seemed to be a rebrand or rewrite ... but it was never the same and I gave up on it. Haven't tried it recently so cannot remember the features they dropped, but was damned annoying. Wunderlist was fine. MS Todo was basically the same without some key features that I used. I gave up on it considering the developer timescale was snail pace... How tf do the big boys get "todo" so wrong? Google completely fluffed Google Tasks ... despite it having some really impressive features like "add email to tasks", best implementation I've seen of it. Which is a shame as the rest of the To do app is not worth anyones time. MS as well ... /endrant
  - chefandy 5y ago
    I'm evaluating todo apps and most of the easily accessible opinion/info is shitty listicles or shitty YouTube self-help gurus. Out of curiosity, what were the key dropped Wunderlist->ToDo features? I do hear a lot of people appreciate the MS ToDo "My Day" feature and know a lot of people were annoyed by the switch, but assumed it was a general distaste for MS rather than specific features. I have weird enough needs I was planning to use an open source CalDAV server, OS native clients and local push notification app for the parts the native apps don't support... but the FOSS CalDav server space is kind of rough right now.
- Kwpolska 5y ago
  It’s different, might be a rewrite (since it took it a while to reach feature-parity), but the general idea of being a simplistic to-do app was kept.
jokethrowaway 5y ago
Wunderlist was acquired and killed because it would have been better than Microsoft Todo. They promised to implement a few features and pocketed some customers.
- WorldMaker 5y ago
  Microsoft Todo was started by the Wunderlist team. It was a ground up rewrite for whatever reasons made sense to that team at the time, but Todo didn't exist until after the Wunderlist acquisition.

Wunderlist is still alive as Microsoft todo though isn't it?

mdoms 5y ago

I think it's a totally different product? Could be wrong though.

LightG 5y ago
It seemed to be a rebrand or rewrite ... but it was never the same and I gave up on it. Haven't tried it recently so cannot remember the features they dropped, but was damned annoying. Wunderlist was fine. MS Todo was basically the same without some key features that I used. I gave up on it considering the developer timescale was snail pace... How tf do the big boys get "todo" so wrong? Google completely fluffed Google Tasks ... despite it having some really impressive features like "add email to tasks", best implementation I've seen of it. Which is a shame as the rest of the To do app is not worth anyones time. MS as well ... /endrant
- chefandy 5y ago
  I'm evaluating todo apps and most of the easily accessible opinion/info is shitty listicles or shitty YouTube self-help gurus. Out of curiosity, what were the key dropped Wunderlist->ToDo features? I do hear a lot of people appreciate the MS ToDo "My Day" feature and know a lot of people were annoyed by the switch, but assumed it was a general distaste for MS rather than specific features. I have weird enough needs I was planning to use an open source CalDAV server, OS native clients and local push notification app for the parts the native apps don't support... but the FOSS CalDav server space is kind of rough right now.
Kwpolska 5y ago
It’s different, might be a rewrite (since it took it a while to reach feature-parity), but the general idea of being a simplistic to-do app was kept.

jokethrowaway 5y ago

Wunderlist was acquired and killed because it would have been better than Microsoft Todo. They promised to implement a few features and pocketed some customers.

WorldMaker 5y ago
Microsoft Todo was started by the Wunderlist team. It was a ground up rewrite for whatever reasons made sense to that team at the time, but Todo didn't exist until after the Wunderlist acquisition.