![]() ![]() I signed up for the To-Do preview, ran the Wunderlist importer, watched it churn for about 15 minutes before failing with an informationless error message, and decided it was time to evaluate my other options. I opened up 2Do again, the app I’d used a couple years back before switching to Wunderlist. It is still the same, immensely powerful but quirky app that it was then. It still has polished macOS and iOS apps, and it still has that subtly un-Apple UI and UX that made me give up on it back then. It has a very complicated mental model involving groups, projects, lists and tasks. Even as I type that, I’m not sure I’ve got the names right, and I sure as hell couldn’t explain the difference between them. This was what drove me to Wunderlist in the first place - the not-quite-right UX/UI and the complex model - even though it meant going to something less powerful, and also forgoing the sync with Apple’s built in iCloud/Reminders functionality (in its place, handing my data over to yet another private cloud). I looked at the OmniFocus website and knew that that was out of the running too. I had played with it a couple years back but found it to be too complicated and opinionated. After the simplicity of Wunderlist, OmniFocus was always going to be too heavyweight. ![]() It’s free to try, so I ran the Wunderlist importer (which worked flawlessly) and took it for a spin. ![]() Unlike Wunderlist, which offered most of its functionality for free, or 2Do, which had a one-time license fee, Todoist has most of the interesting features behind an (admittedly low) subscription paywall. ![]()
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