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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 (#14154972)
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

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Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app... by xaedes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:24AM (#14155711)
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.

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Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app... by TeddyDD on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:36AM (#14155207)
That's why I use todo.txt TaskWarrior and org mode are interesting as well. I have to look into differences between then.
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Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app... by danieldk on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:52AM (#14157161)
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.
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Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app... by littlehood on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:22AM (#14155159)
I've started using Standard Notes, but it kind of feels like it's still beta.
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Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app... by cafebabbe on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:48AM (#14154994)
Yup, totally agree. Lesson learned!
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