TickTick steadily improves

Posted by nathanb
Sep 19, 2018 at 03:54 PM

>Jeffery Smith wrote:
>I have 5 different task managers in rotation, with one being
>swapped out for another because of a minor annoyance or interface
>component that doesn’t quite agree with me. I went back to Pagico
>yesterday based on the new update, but stopped using it this morning.
>I’m surprised that I haven’t been married six times.

It would be funny to start a whole topic on what little annoyances have kept us from certain apps. Maybe that would be good for developers who might never consider them issues at all.

Tick-Tick is by far my most prominent example of a small thinking pushing me away. At the time I was using Wunderlist and looking for the most similar thing after Microsoft bought it to rot it and was pushing their new inferior ‘todo’ app. TT WAS the answer, just as simple and fluid as WL but with some awesome added features. Love the fusion of day planning tasks with your calendar. But the annoyance was the notifications, they were a nightmare and it seemed like no matter what I did they’d just keep coming. Usually that’s a simple settings tweak. It’s been like 1.5 years and I still think of TT as that app that wouldn’t stop bothering me until I uninstalled it. Maybe it’s better now.

My current task mgr is Todoist which is so frictionless in almost every way except one. Setting and changing reminders. If you use their ‘AI’ that interprets plain language then it works great and expected like 80% of the time. But simply trying to explicitly set a reminder or change it…. It’s not intuitive at all and it still annoys me after it being my main task manager for many months now. That one thing is honestly making me go back to MLO where I have to rely on an installed app and deal with managing syncing again. If 2005 me were seeing this he’d be shaking his head at what I consider deal-breaking software issues these days!