

Let me revisit the table I created in September and do an update on the Microsoft options and add a column for Todoist. What am I using as a Wunderlist Replacement? So, why Todoist? In that post, I said that I would do follow-ups occasionally – and here we are. And then mistakes were made – Ditching Wunderlist for a Brand-New App was a Mistake. At first, when I heard about the acquisition, I was excited – Three Reasons Why I’m Excited About Microsoft’s Acquisition of Wunderlist. For years, I’ve used Wunderlist (even before the Microsoft acquisition). And then comes my notes manager ( OneNote for Work, Evernote for Capturing and Personal). My calendar comes in a close second (Outlook with Microsoft 365). This was a first for Wunderlist-previously it was only possible to share to individuals-and it solved the problem of a slow and tedious sharing experience for larger teams and organizations.My todo list manager is the most important productivity app. Anyone with access to this link could then join and contribute to the list. In the compose pane we built an extension that allowed users to embed a link to their lists into the email.

We built two extensions here, the regular "Add to Wunderlist" extension which allowed users to preview the task before creating it (shown below), and a "Quick Add" extension which created the task in the background with just the click of a button. In the reading pane we built an extension that used natural language processing to parse email content into an actionable To-Do's. The goal was to give users access to relevant task actions while in the context of reading or sending an email.

After being acquired by Microsoft, one of my first projects was to integrate Wunderlist into Outlook Web through their “Add in” extensions.
