Best app to replace Wunderlist. I vote Tick Tick.

I was a huge fan of Wunderlist and was sad when I learned they were shutting down to be replaced by Microsoft To-Do. Panicked even. So I did a ton of research, read a few dozen ‘Top 10 to do lists’ and discovered Tick Tick.

I pretty much ran my life with the aid of Wunderlist to the point where I am now useless at remembering anything. Like when I was a kid, I used to remember a dozen phone numbers or more, whereas now that I have a mobile, I can’t even remember my wife’s number. I struggle with mine. I am not sure this is a good thing but bollocks to it, I am happy with the pact I signed with technology.

Now, I have no beef with Microsoft but I already give them money every month and generally find that when a huge company buys a smaller upstart some of the love and care seems to disappear. It’s almost as if they don’t really give a fuck and just want cash. So I looked through the alternatives to find something that at least does the bare minimum I need. It must sync across all my devices – two ipads, Samsung Phone, and a Surface Pro. I found out that most to-do lists seem to do that, so it wasn’t a lot of help.

So I delved a bit deeper and looked at ease of use, ability to add sub-tasks and crucially, notes. I write down a lot of story ideas when out and about. There needed to be a ‘today’ function and the ability to set alerts and things of that nature. Again, quite a lot of the apps did a lot of these things but add in reliability and easy syncing and I narrowed it down to three: Any.do, Todoist, and Tick Tick. I don’t share projects or work with a team as I am more of a lone wolf when it comes to work so a lot of the functionality on some of these apps is lost too.

Tick tick had a couple of features that I thought would be handy as I used them already but in separate apps. It has a calendar, so you can organise yourself more easily. The week view is really handy for working out what writing projects I will do and when. It has a Pomodoro timer, which I have other apps for but this is build in and I love the Pomodoro technique because I am ridiculously easily to distract. Seriously, I remember one time- Sorry. It has a habit tracker, which again is something I use to make sure I am doing certain things. And a few more you might find handy.

I have now been using Tick Tick for a few months and it is awesome. If you are a Wunderlist user you can just import all your tasks in one click, which saved a shitload of time. The syncing is better and the sub-tasks, notes are easier. I wish there was an affiliate program because I have been recommending Tick Tick to a lot of people. Here is a link to their website if you want to take a look.

So there you go. I was happy with Wunderlist but was forced to move and now, I have an even better organiser with Tick Tick. I hope this helped as I know a lot of people used Wunderlist and are probably in the same boat.