Microsoft To Do 4+

I was forced to migrate from wunderlist which served our family well over the years. Aethestically the new Todo app looks nice. In moving across was painful with all the duplicate lists being created across shared devices where the sharing linkages were broken. Syncing was slow, and it literally took hrs to setup for a handful of shared lists. Almost endlessly syncing.

Seems that the tick boxes are more vulnerable to be accidently clicked. I accidentally competed multiple tasks while shopping with one hand on the trolley. This was not a prob with wunderlist and you could show the deleted tasks which or ordered chronologically from when they were deleted.

Now when deleted tasks are shown, they aren’t sorted, they are just strewn almost completely randomly throughout hundreds of active and competed tasks. I have no idea what I have accidently pressed to bring them back. That’s why I have a task list, so I can unload it from my mind.

So we moved to this from Wunderlist. We didn’t want to but we had to because they will be shunting it down and some times the items were not synced correctly. So I decided to migrate to Microsoft To-Do since they were build by the same team which in theory should be smooth and the synching problem should get better because presumably they would have spent more resource on this instead of Wunderlist. Oh my god I was wrong. First all my shared lists when imported became two copies in each account. We have about 20 of them. So we had to go into one account and invite the other account. And in the other account join the list and delete the list with the same name. So naturally we did this on a computer. Then it took days for my iPhone and iPad to be all in sync. Meanwhile my wife started using it already. But the items in our shared groceries list is like a week old. Then I tried to rejoin the list, deleting 5k completed items and rejoin the list to a point that the app would fail at joining the list and suggest me contacting customer support. At last we decided just to create a brand new list for groceries. We created it on my wife’s phone. Then I joined the list. Then my wife added a bunch of items and added a emoji to the name. That’s 3 hours ago. The list on my phone is still empty and no emojis. By the way, one the Mac, the deleted list is still there.

This app is generally very good.
I especially like the fact that you can login on the web via your Microsoft account and manage your tasks on a web browser.
The UI is also very pleasant, and you can assign tasks to the Today list to plan your day.
However, this app cannot match the iOS Reminders App when it comes to notifications and reminders.
For example, I can set the iOS Reminders to alert me of a task at a preset time and date. I can also set for the reminder to repeat every day, weekly etc. The Microsoft ToDo app cannot seem to do this as well. You can set a reminder for a time and date. However, the reminder pops up on the screen and disappears thereafter. With the iOS Reminders, the tasks remain showing in your home & previews screen so that you’re constantly reminded about the task.