Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app...
by cafebabbe on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:26AM
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Okay i've been fucked by several todos apps now, I think i'll switch to emacs and self-hosting...
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Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app...
by sametmax on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:44AM
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The thing is, for something critical, you should not use a software that doesn't have:
- an open source self hostable implementation, even if they offer a paid instance to ease your life.
- an open format in which you can get your todos entries
- an offline client that will still work even if the online instance closes
Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app...
by xaedes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:24AM
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Sounds like Bullet Journal.
Will still work in a hundred years.
Heck even the offline client could work thousands of years if properly stored^^
Started to use it because of some HN comment suggested it and I am so happy to started this. The only todo system that really stuck with me over time.
Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app...
by TeddyDD on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:36AM
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That's why I use todo.txt TaskWarrior and org mode are interesting as well. I have to look into differences between then.
Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app...
by danieldk on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:52AM
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I have been using org-mode the last few months and I really like it. It easy to get lost in all the possibilities, but it has extremely cool features, for instance: since org is also a markup language, I can just create my slides with Markdown-like markup and export it to e.g. LaTeX beamer. But since any heading can be made a TODO item, I can just mark slides that are not done as TODO and it will show up on my TODO list.
Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app...
by littlehood on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:22AM
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I've started using Standard Notes, but it kind of feels like it's still beta.
Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app...
by cafebabbe on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:48AM
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Yup, totally agree. Lesson learned!
Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app...
by djsumdog on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:01AM
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Same here. I used Astrid, which Yahoo acqui-killed and I totally missed the memo that Microsoft owned Wunderlist.
Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app...
by cholantesh on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:12AM
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There's a really nice, feature-complete open source clone of Astrid in the Play store. It's not quite as charming, though.