Looking for an alternative to apps like TickTick and Todoist but I don’t want a subscription to deal with. I can justify a one time purchase of a todo app though as long as it’s reasonable. Any recommendations?
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I know this will probably be unpopular, but that’s part of why I’m throwing it in here. Microsoft ToDo started out as a hot pile of garbage after they took over a great to-do app. These days it’s genuinely pretty great, though. Especially if part of what you do involves Outlook or Exchange. You can flag mails and have them show up in a to-do section, it will semi-intelligently suggest things to do next based on things in your to do-list, if you use planner or tasks at work, your things will show up in ToDo as well. I don’t use it for personal stuff, because having the option to quickly have Siri add something in Reminders is super convenient, but other than that it’s definitely a useful option - especially if you don’t use a voice assistant.
+1, there are some things I wish were different but overall Microsoft To Do is a great app.
Things. It’s a one-time purchase but if you’re using it on iPhone, iPad and Mac it’s 3 one-time purchases and they are not cheap. But for me personally it feels and works exactly as I need it and after trying a bunch of others, I decided Things is the one. And I’ve used it long enough now that the price doesn’t hurt anymore.
I use Dynalist. It’s an outliner, not strictly a to-do app but functions well enough as one. Also useful for notes, brainstorming, project management, or anything where you want text in a tree structure.
If you really want an app, Tusk is great, even just the free version. No ads. Nice colorful icons. Smooth interface, good scheduling options. Some functions are paywalled though, like calendar sync. I can’t remember if premium is a purchase or a subscription.
But really pen and paper is the best, imo. You can get little pocket notebooks. Much more satisfying and less restrictive than an app, if you don’t need it to also be giving you notifications.
Edit: Tody is great for household cleaning todos/scheduling. Also free and ad free, except for some paywalled functions.
Google Keep (since it convenient) and Github’s built in kanban board (which is super nice for coding projects)
Stuff is what I use. It’s an offline app though, but it’s pretty customisable and looks great.
Agreed! Came here to mention it. It’s a widget only, and very minimal but I love it. I only wish I remembered to look at it more often.
I just use Google Tasks, and it works very well. Got a widget on my home screen with open tasks and I can manage them via my desktop as well.
I use Skiff Calendar they are very privacy friendly and have React Apps for every major platform skiff.com
I use Obsidian for note taking, and I downloaded an extension for the ability to turn any note into a task.
Might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but it’s FREE and locally hosted on your PC.
I’m REALLY interested to learn Obsidian. I like the fact that the files are simply .md files so they can be exported to anything else after. Also that’s it’s SUPER extensible and customizable. It should perfect for my needs to combine my procedures, documentations and projects follow-ups
It does take some effort to learn, but it is super customizable and it’s been working great for me so far.
You just have to go for it and figure it out. I just used it for planning a vacation and found it quite useful and nicer than other options I have used before.
It has subscription only features like ticktick.
If you download it from Fdroid, it doesn’t have a subscription. And it has all the features unlocked.
Yes, just found this. Anyways, I was fine to pay few bucks per year, but I need a full functional web version as well.
Tasks.org syncs with various services. Those services may or may not have a web UI. I use it with Nextcloud tasks, which has a serviceable web UI.
I know, but non of these UI covers all tasks.org features (recurring, subtasks, tags etc). Moreover, you need a separate server for this - if you have one already - greate, if not this is an issue.
I needed webgui reachable from my office as well, used tasks.org with Google tasks for a while, but it is too limited (from the Google side), then I considered alternatives and found that in my case ticktick offers best set of features and “just works” for simple cross devices needs Microsoft Todo also works surprisingly well.
Now support of wearos becomes also a useful option.
What features are locked? I’ve only ever used the f-droid version, and haven’t noticed anything blocked. But I don’t use it much (unfortunately).
On play store sync is a paid feature and if I recall correctly, something tags related. It looks like, fdroid version is completely free: https://tasks.org/docs/subscribe
Anyway, it does not have full functional web version.
Syncs with Nextcloud as well, very good although the €1 a year subscription is a bit meh
Version from fdroid is free
I‘m using Due on the iPhone. It can be purchased per one-time payment and won’t get new features added then (bugfixes are still coming) but that’s fine since there are not so many new features. Plus, it syncs to the Mac (additional purchase needed).
I have a pretty straightforward solution. I keep a text file called ‘todo’ in my Syncthing sync folder, and I added ‘cat Sync/todo’ to my Fish greeting.
My wife and I started using cozi a few months ago. Shared to-do lists, shopping lists, etc with widgets. It’s been nice.
have you tried notion?
