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Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 13, 2013 at 01:11 AM
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
So how much does this cost, if anything? I don’t see anything about that
>on the site and the old one was free.
>When it comes to apps that require syncing with the company’s servers,
>my concern is “So, how do they make money?” since it seems pretty often,
>those servers don’t stick around very long if there’s no money coming
>in.
Well, some money has just come in :) Sequoia Capital has just invested $19 million in Wunderlist. So there must be a monetization model at least in the business plan somewhere.
But… I have gradually lost interest in Wunderlist. I did like the easy sharing of lists in the very first iteration, and the easy-to-use interface, but the subsequent changes to the look of it and some of the more recent bells and whistles put me off. Plus Workflowy turned up.
So is Wunderlist is going to be the Evernote of todo lists? Anyone stuck with v. 2?
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 13, 2013 at 01:14 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
>Well, some money has just come in :) Sequoia Capital has just invested
>$19 million in Wunderlist. So there must be a monetization model at
>least in the business plan somewhere.
Here is the link:
https://www.wunderlist.com/blog/sequoia-invests-19-million-in-wunderlist
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 13, 2013 at 10:54 AM
I like the ideas behind Wunderlist, and I love company’s website and general enthusiasm. But there are shortcomings - I regularly go back to Wunderlist (because it’s so totally cross-platform), then find myself abandoning it for other solutions that are just “friendlier”, somehow. I’m currently experimenting with TickTick.com (nice iOS, Android, web apps) and Todo.ly (very nice web app, nice iOS app). I find that increasingly, I’m looking for the following:
a) list of categories/projects/folders etc. down the left-hand side (spot the outliner user!). Ideally foldable, but that’s not critical.
b) list of tasks (plus ideally subtasks) in the middle window. Ideally with first line of comment/note shown, too.
c) full details of whichever task I happen to be looking at in right-hand window, with plenty of space for notes/comments
Now I like these things to be simple and clear, which is why I’ve moved away from Remember The Milk (nice iOS app, but fussy categories; disastrous web app) and Doit.im (again, good-looking, but over-fussy). I moved back to the very, very simple for a while (Priorities on iOS/the web), and enjoyed that; but the three-pane concept described above appeals to me most of all.
I don’t like complex task managers (Pocket Informant, 2Do); you spend more time arranging things or entering details than you do on the tasks themselves! Currently TickTick.com has held my loyalty longer than most, not because it’s perfect, but because it combines just enough complexity with an overarchingly simple structure.
If Wunderlist allowed you to (a) color categories and (b) keep the ‘task details’ window permanently open, I would probably move back to it. But there’s something a bit too “list-like” about Wunderlist at the moment. The best task apps are the ones that make you smile when you open them (which is why I keep Priorities around - it always makes me smile!).
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 13, 2013 at 04:25 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Currently TickTick.com has held my loyalty longer than most,
>not because it’s perfect, but because it combines just enough complexity
>with an overarchingly simple structure.
Have you tried the collaboration features? They’re one of the differentiations between the free and Pro versions http://ticktick.com/about/upgrade but what exactly they offer is not very clear to me.
From my part I am still OK with Nozbe, though I have put my outliner mind in hibernation in order to use it (it does not have subtasks). But offline access plus collaboration are just too important for me.