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Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by welanes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:14AM (#14155124)
Don't Microsoft own Wunderlist? My theory is that if you observe a large cluster of developers for long enough, todo apps simply manifest into being.

None as good as Lanes though, https://lanes.io. Obviously ;)

Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by johnlbevan2 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:41AM (#14155775)
It seems they do, but are shutting it down; see related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14154378
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by reitanqild on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:59AM (#14155856)
None as good as Lanes though, https://lanes.io. Obviously ;)

Hard to verify for me as long as the linked page doesn't work in mobile Firefox ; )

Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by welanes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:47AM (#14156550)
Solid point! I've made the landing page responsive so you can try from mobile now. However, still in the process of moving to mobile so features won't match web version just yet. Usability will be improved in a week or two.
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by Geee on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:53AM (#14156190)
It doesn't seem to work on MacOS / Chrome.

Edit: Actually the UI color was set white on white background and didn't show up. No idea why it was set that way. Quite a dangerous settings.

Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by tronje on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:58AM (#14156223)
Looks good, but I'm experiencing a UI bug. I'll just post a screenshot instead of describing it, it's got to do with some font color being the same as the background color. I'm using Firefox in Win10 at work.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/c6XTwLV.png

Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by welanes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:26AM (#14156378)
On first load the font theme should be dark by default. I'll add some validation and an alert if it's set to white and no background is detected.

Thanks.

Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by tmd83 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:27PM (#14158799)
On OSX Chrome 57 I'm getting this making it mostly unusable for me parse anything. Its going out of the page and without even a scroller http://imgur.com/a/SpgNy
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by welanes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:34PM (#14158890)
Yikes, my media query game is weak. Will fix.
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by timlyo on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:36AM (#14155201)
Trying out lanes now. It looks really nice, but how limited the basic version is is a killer for me, especially when there are so many alternatives.
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by welanes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:46AM (#14155263)
Hey, maybe we can fix this. What in the basic version would you like to see?
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by timlyo on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:25AM (#14155993)
The main one is the recurring tasks. having this would probably be enough for me to start using it full time.

Only allowing one friend seems a bit odd. A social feature without a proper social group. Although I can't see myself using this anyway so I'm not too worried.

I really like the idea of detailed insights and the goals, but these both make sense as paid features. They're the things that would make me pay if they could be proven to be useful, although I'm a sucker for statistics.

On a slightly unrelated note, it would be nice if we could click outside of a modal and have it disappear, rather than having to click X, like many other systems do.

Lanes looks really pretty, I love the design of the timer tab, and I'd really like to start using it. I've just followed you on twitter for any updates.

Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by welanes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:31AM (#14156943)
Click-away to close is added, will be live soon.

The cap on social features is a temp step while I design the process flow, so won't be around for long.

Let me have a think about recurring tasks. Catch me via Twitter or in-app chat if you don't see any move on this in the next week. Cheers.

Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by timlyo on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:50AM (#14157139)
Nice, it's great to hear a developer responding like this. I've pinned lanes.io in my browser I'll keep checking back.

One last thing, don't suppose you have an api? I'd really like to display my next task on my desktop status bar.

Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by welanes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:31PM (#14158851)
No API just yet as design still in flux, but stay tuned.
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by dilemma on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:30AM (#14156417)
Very nice. The design makes me really want to use it. Does it sync calendar and tasks with Exchange/Office365?
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by welanes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:38PM (#14158924)
No sync with 3rd party APIs just yet, but planned.
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by rutierut on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:35AM (#14156979)
I was greeted with:

"Hey undefined. Lanes has been updated. See what's new:"

love this kind of shit haha

Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by welanes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:29PM (#14158832)
Possible solutions:

A. Are you sure your name is not undefined?

B. Perhaps you can change your name to undefined to fix this issue.

:P I'll get on this.

Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by owenwil on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:30AM (#14155183)
This is built by the Wunderlist people, and that's now dead :(
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by welanes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:52AM (#14155286)
For real? Wow, that's super lame (he says, while frantically beginning to code an 'import-from-Wunderlist' feature).
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by H4CK3RM4N on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:34AM (#14155485)
I think Microsoft released one for this new thing. I'm not sure if it's cross compatible.
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by garretraziel on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:15AM (#14155668)
Microsoft's To-Do lets you import from Wunderlist.
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by blahblah12 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:15AM (#14155669)
Dude this decision was by the Wunderlist team, they're all still at the company.
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by lighttower on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:59AM (#14157224)
Can't scroll in Firefox or chrome for mobile
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by cheeze on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:55AM (#14156200)
Doesn't work on chrome/android
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do by rndstr on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:09AM (#14156289)
I cannot scroll on Chrome Android