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Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 15, 2024 at 09:37 AM

Worth remarking here that TickTick is just as flexible as Superlist, with more options (e.g. Kanban boards, Calendar, nested tags, etc.)

You can essentially use TickTick to “build” your own unique task management system, adopting features from most popular task managers.

But Superlist does look nice!

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 15, 2024 at 11:08 AM

There is no question in my mind that TickTick is the more full-featured task app, but Superlist has two things TickTick does not: infinite nesting of tasks and every task is also a page that can hold various elements. That’s what attracts me.

MadaboutDana wrote:
Worth remarking here that TickTick is just as flexible as Superlist,
>with more options (e.g. Kanban boards, Calendar, nested tags, etc.)
> >You can essentially use TickTick to “build” your own unique
>task management system, adopting features from most popular task
>managers.
> >But Superlist does look nice!
> >satis wrote:
>I’ve been playing with it and it’s pretty useful. For a brand new app it
>>has powerful built-in integrations:
>>
>>free: Gmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft To Do sync, email forwarding
>>
>>pay: Slack, Github, Linear Figma
>>
>>For individuals there’s almost reason not to remain on the free tier,
>>and families of up to five could easily live in and share lists/notes
>in
>>the free Group tier.
>>
>>The Getting Started video is constructive.
>>
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MzzbRhYlSA
>>
>>I’ve been using the free tier of Anylist (I paid for it for several
>>years previously) for all my groceries and most of my generic lists.
>>I’ll continue to use it because it has features focused on grocery
>>shopping (autofill by category, multiple shopping locations, etc) but I
>>can see myself using Superlist for most other things because of its
>>power and simplicity and easy sharing.
>>
>>The Keep Productive channel just did an overview of it and Francesco
>>says it’s jumped into his Top 10 list.
>>
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7dndjGauE8

Posted by satis
Feb 15, 2024 at 02:28 PM

Also, Superlist is a more elegant, beautiful app, with well-chosen use of color (icons, item-bubble numbering list elements). That goes for the Mac and iOS apps, as well as the web version. Ticktick has rudimentary, relatively crude theming and I disliked its color schemes so much when I started with it I switched to the grayscale theme just to reduce the ugliness.

Ticktick’s link to local calendars is a big advantage for Apple users. (The free version shows a list of calendar items, the pay version displays the TickTick calendar.) One apparently can’t access calendar items in Superlist, but if you use Google Calendar you can sync Superlist items to it (then subscribe to the Superlist/GC calendar in your calendar app of choice).

A free list app *alone* (which is what I think I’ll use it for) it’s probably better than the competition at this point, definitely better than Microsoft To Do (which it can import from) or Google Tasks or Anylist. The free realtime collaboration makes it a much better fit for couples, families and small groups, and Markdown formatting in notes makes it more useful to expand on tasks and reminders.

As a 1.0 release it’s really impressive, with the exception of search. They’re working on a lot of updates, like drag-and-drop on mobile and swipe actions on tasks, and they’re planning Todoist-like natural language processing, time-blocking, including tasks in multiple lists, and Notion integration(!).

Posted by Ken
Feb 15, 2024 at 06:22 PM

satis wrote:
I’ve been playing with it and it’s pretty useful. For a brand new app it
>has powerful built-in integrations:
> >free: Gmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft To Do sync, email forwarding
> >pay: Slack, Github, Linear Figma
> >For individuals there’s almost reason not to remain on the free tier,
>and families of up to five could easily live in and share lists/notes in
>the free Group tier.
> >The Getting Started video is constructive.
> >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MzzbRhYlSA
> >I’ve been using the free tier of Anylist (I paid for it for several
>years previously) for all my groceries and most of my generic lists.
>I’ll continue to use it because it has features focused on grocery
>shopping (autofill by category, multiple shopping locations, etc) but I
>can see myself using Superlist for most other things because of its
>power and simplicity and easy sharing.
> >The Keep Productive channel just did an overview of it and Francesco
>says it’s jumped into his Top 10 list.
> >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7dndjGauE8
Saw the video last night as I was considering signing up for a free account. I ended up doing so, mostly to see what it can do for me. Weird that it did not require a password for the account and just sent me a code. The different items it can handle and the layout flexibility reminds me a bit of Walling, and I guess this must be part of the newest design trend. Not sur eit will replace Click-Up for my main task management, but this could be useful in other ways.

—Ken

Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 17, 2024 at 11:39 PM

Well, I agree Superlist looks nicer, but your two other points aren’t valid:

a) TickTick *does* have infinite nesting of subtasks, and has had for some time (subtasks appear as tasks in a folding “outline” layout, as well as inside the parent task)

b) And TickTick pages can indeed contain information as well as subtasks or, if you prefer, checklists (which aren’t the same thing, but are useful if you only want one “layer” of subtasks). So in that sense, TickTick pages are (almost) as flexible as Superlist’s (although again, I agree that Superlist does this more elegantly, in that you can have subtasks anywhere on the page, whereas TickTick subtasks appear at the bottom)

I’d make a final point: that TickTick makes better (by which I mean, tighter) use of space – Superlist is still at the Big Heading stage (a bit like Pagico was a few versions ago). Which wastes quite a lot of space at the top of each task (especially in the top-level list, which has an Enormous Heading). I hope they tone that down in the near future, because for me, more information on a page is “better” – from this point of view, Pagico used to be infuriating, despite its undoubted power.

However, I’ll admit – again – that Superlist hits the “desirable” spot quite nicely. Hopefully they’ll introduce a Calendar and Kanban boards, at which point I suspect I’ll be strongly tempted to switch loyalties… ;-)

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