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Posted by satis
Sep 18, 2018 at 09:28 PM
One more thing regarding Pagico - if anyone’s still interested in that app I noticed StackSocial still has it on sale for $20:
https://stacksocial.com/sales/pagico-8
(At the beginning of 2018 it was half that under a [now-expired] BundleHunt deal.)
Back to TickTick, I think it’s colorful and attractive and pleasant to use (athough I ultimately didn’t settle down with it). I think that I prefer the pro version to the pro version of Todoist, and I like how they implemented multiple reminders for individual events (eg day before, hour before, 10 minutes before, etc) as well as reminders for subtasks and adding tasks via Siri.
Posted by nathanb
Sep 19, 2018 at 03:54 PM
>Jeffery Smith wrote:
>I have 5 different task managers in rotation, with one being
>swapped out for another because of a minor annoyance or interface
>component that doesn’t quite agree with me. I went back to Pagico
>yesterday based on the new update, but stopped using it this morning.
>I’m surprised that I haven’t been married six times.
It would be funny to start a whole topic on what little annoyances have kept us from certain apps. Maybe that would be good for developers who might never consider them issues at all.
Tick-Tick is by far my most prominent example of a small thinking pushing me away. At the time I was using Wunderlist and looking for the most similar thing after Microsoft bought it to rot it and was pushing their new inferior ‘todo’ app. TT WAS the answer, just as simple and fluid as WL but with some awesome added features. Love the fusion of day planning tasks with your calendar. But the annoyance was the notifications, they were a nightmare and it seemed like no matter what I did they’d just keep coming. Usually that’s a simple settings tweak. It’s been like 1.5 years and I still think of TT as that app that wouldn’t stop bothering me until I uninstalled it. Maybe it’s better now.
My current task mgr is Todoist which is so frictionless in almost every way except one. Setting and changing reminders. If you use their ‘AI’ that interprets plain language then it works great and expected like 80% of the time. But simply trying to explicitly set a reminder or change it…. It’s not intuitive at all and it still annoys me after it being my main task manager for many months now. That one thing is honestly making me go back to MLO where I have to rely on an installed app and deal with managing syncing again. If 2005 me were seeing this he’d be shaking his head at what I consider deal-breaking software issues these days!
Posted by nathanb
Sep 20, 2018 at 02:30 PM
nathanb wrote:
>Jeffery Smith wrote:
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>>I’m surprised that I haven’t been married six times.
Well, if your wife is like mine, then she’s REALLY patient and accepts CRIMPing as just something she’ll need to live with. Several times a year she’ll see random charges for software licenses and subscriptions pop up on our accounts and NEVER complain about them. She’s actually really good at using tech but rarely seeks to optimize it. I’m still in awe of her ability to put up with a huge amount of tech friction day after day, year after year, and not consider it a problem! She knows that the benefits of her having an in-house IT person outweighs the annoyances. She even let me get an NAS and calmly accepted us dumping all pics and files there. The only thing she asks of me is that she doesn’t want to change OUR shared working lists very often. Which means we’ve been sharing the same exact group of OneNote pages for about….8 years…now. Because every time I suggest a ‘better’ way she gives me a serious look and says “I’m willing to change it, but if we do, then we STICK to the new one for a long time!”.... which causes me to just keep CRIMPing on my end because choosing one amazing woman is so much easier than sticking with one app!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 5, 2019 at 06:02 PM
Well, TickTick have finally incorporated something I’ve been whingeing at them to do for years: Markdown and formatted text.
And they’ve done it very nicely, too. It includes checklists, for example.
It instantly transforms TickTick into a much more powerful task manager.
Totally worth a CRIMP…
Posted by Ken
Aug 10, 2020 at 05:21 PM
Just got an update to my Android app and it appears that TickTick now has actual subtasks. The checklist feature that was previously considered a sub task feature remains and is now called “Check Item”. The subtask feature will be called “Task Nesting”. A nice, helpful addition, but I wish that developers would just call a subtask a subtask. Microsoft’s Planner is the worst with their naming, but several others are not too far behind. Nonetheless, this should improve TickTick’s usability, and I applaud them for keeping both lists and subtasks. More about it here: https://blog.ticktick.com/post/626042157344718848/the-4ds-framework-how-task-nesting-helps-you-with .
—Ken