Looks more than a little interesting. Tree structure notes with infinite nested folders, and any node can have an alarm assigned. Built-in Kanban view (a la Zenkit and Firetask).

Web, iOS app, Android app, Chrome extension.

Collaboration. Share lists via URL.

Sort. Filter.

Offline version.

Sync to Google Calendar.

File attachments with Google Drive.

Export to CSV or JSON.

Slack integration(!)

Recurring tasks.

https://quire.io/

Blog: https://quire.io/blog/

Love that it has both start and end dates and supports sharing and multiple platforms from the beginning. Already puts it ahead of many others. But I find the UX clumsy and confusing. While I could figure it out, I can't expect others I work with to do so. I'll stick with Todoist for now. Hopefully they'll improve over time till they can offer Todoist some real competition.

Thanks for the heads-up! This is so much like Notion.so in concept and execution that it would be hard to choose between the two products, although this has just a little more focus on task management.

--Chris

I haven't used Notion. But from what I've read about it, while it does have a calendar view I never saw anything about Google Calendar sync. I live inside GC, so it's hard for me to consider a task app that doesn't sync with GC (or at the very least connect to Apple Calendar, which then automatically syncs to GC).

FYI it appears that they've pushed back charging until "At least until the first half of 2020"

https://quire.io/pricing

Kanban view looks good now.

https://quire.io/tutorial/board

Getting started:

https://quire.io/w/Getting_Started_with_Quire/132/Quire_101

Luhmann wrote:

I'll stick with Todoist for now.

I'm using Todoist as well, and am waiting for the promised October '19 update, which is supposed to be based on a new foundation, remove a few edge-case features, and add a new kanban board view (which everyone has done or is doing). My subscription expires in a couple of months though, and if they don't come out with needed improvements (better subtasks, and better UI at the top of my list) then I'm going to have to switch to something else.

I picked up the Todoist Foundations v12 beta today (October 8 release). Projects can now have sections. But I don’t see a Kanban view. Maybe that will come later?

It’s the one big addition they’ve been promising since last year, so I really hope they’re far along with it.

https://twitter.com/amix3k/status/1073162472876597249

Well, what I'm seeing in the beta is *sort of* like that. It's a bit confusing. On the home page we can treat a project like a folder and add sub-projects, but when viewing the project you don't see the sub-projects just the "Sections" of that project. (And the "Sections" do not appear elsewhere in the UI.) I'll assume they are iterating toward a refined UI that is Kanban-ish. Just not yet.

satis wrote:

It's the one big addition they've been promising since last
year, so I really hope they're far along with it.

https://twitter.com/amix3k/status/1073162472876597249

Hmm, it sounds like they hit a few roadblocks trying to implement that mock-up.

Interesting that a lot of other apps and app-services (TickTick, Ora, Notion, Quire, Airtable, Quip, Orangescrum, tidily.io, Paymo, Zenkit, Zoho Projects, Merlin Project [Mac only], Checklist [only in the Enterprise plan]) have be able to implement a native kanban view (and some add additional views, like timelines/GANTT and mindmap) for a while.

Todoist is a big player in the task management space, but in several ways it's playing catch-up to competing products, while free products (and free tiers of competitive task managers or kanban boards) are eating the market from below.

TickTick just gained 2-way Google Calendar sync (although it's periodic sync, not like Todoist's immediate push-sync), and that was one unique feature that kept me happy staying with todoist. But if a year's worth of promised change doesn't offer what's expected (for me that's kanban view and usable subtasks) then I'll have to looks elsewhere. Quire looks pretty nice, as do some of the other apps I mentioned above.

Well, I got curious about this and opened a test account under a disposable address. I thought it might be a good alternative to some of the other programs, but I am not sure about how it handles subtasks with respect to parent tasks. I created a task with a subtask and then added them to a Board. The tasks appear on the Board, but no longer seem to have any relationship to each other. Nor does the subtask seem to show its relationship to its parent in any way shape or form. Perhaps this is by design, and maybe it has some benefits for certain work situations, but it is not really my cup of tea. Please let me know if I have misunderstood the program, but for now I may just pass.

--Ken

Service is still being developed, and it's still free. Almost forgot about it, until I got an email saying that because of the current health emergency they're dropping all limits for nonprofits.

Tutorial here:

https://quire.io/tutorial

Latest iOS app updated two days ago (I wish there were a Mac desktop app):

https://apps.apple.com/app/quire-task-manager-for-teams/id1095193897