![]() ![]() The one feeling I can’t shake as I use wunderlist is that my thoughts feel far too scattered, and try as I might, I can’t quite get myself quite in line with the app. Why can’t we pull down to sync in every tab? Given that wunderlist has implemented all sorts of ways to view your tasks, I’m really not sure why they only allow you to sync on one screen. Unfortunately, you’ll only find these option in one tab: the base List overview. There is no automatic syncing in the wunderlist iPhone app, but there are two ways to manually initiate a sync: “pull down to sync” or press the refresh button. It doesn’t feel if something easy and natural, like the way Things syncs on startup or how 2Do allows you to sync on exit. I find syncing a bit of a pain in wunderlist. I’m risking sounding like a complete ingrate here when I say that the OTA sync isn’t all that useful to me so far, but I take issue with how it’s implemented in the iPhone app. I’ve been going over the whole experience in my head, and I think it currently boils down to three aspects: inconvenient syncing, a scattered iPhone app (the desktop app is waaaay better), and a lack of faith in tight, future support. I realize it has only been a few days, but Wunderlist just hasn’t clicked with me on any level that makes me want to fill it up with more than just today’s workload. I’ve found that one of the most important features of a task manager is how it tends to make me feel about the work I have to do, as well as all the work I’ve done. ![]() Typing a task out and then having to edit it after the fact just doesn’t strike me as being very convenient. However, when you throw the concept of different lists or extra properties (like due dates and priority - both of which are in wunderlist), it really helps to have a good dialogue box for quick entry. I really like the idea of the simple text field for task creation, and it works beautifully in apps like TeuxDeux or Taskpaper, where tasks are really just text, but framed and organized very nicely. This interface simply doesn’t work for me and I find this approach rather imbalanced. I get the feeling that wunderlist assume I know where a task is going when you write it out - or at the very least, assumes that I don’t mind navigating back to the Inbox list so that I can create a task and sort it out later. Instead, you’ll find a text field right at the top of your currently viewed list, and typing text into that field and pressing enter is how you create a task. Unlike many other applications, there isn’t any sort of New Task button or dialogue box for creating a task and then deciding where it should go. Every button and texture within the app has been polished to a sheen, and the icon for the app is ultra slick.Įverything in wunderlist is sorted under a list. ![]() Each version of the app features a set of themes that can make it look very classy, very cutesy, or very silly. If there’s one thing to say about wunderlist, it’s that it’s very, very good looking. Login info, including the e-mail portion, seems to be case sensitive, though, so make sure you pay attention to what you type. Wunderlist seems quite promising right out of the box because there are Windows, Mac, and iPhone clients, and all you need to do to link them is create a wunderlist account and then log in on your various devices. So it seems to me that I really should like wunderlist, but I don’t (and that tears me up a little in a manly, task management kind of way). I also want to like wunderlist because its design aesthetic reminds me of Things, and funnily enough, OTA sync is exactly what many Things users have been clamouring for. I really want to like wunderlist because the Mac/Windows and iPhone apps are all very pretty, very free, and very capable of syncing with each other over the internet (over-the-air) without having to be on the same local wi-fi network. ![]()
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