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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    Damn they’re making todo lists a subscription service now??

    To answer the question: anything that provides a CALDAV backend (e.g. Nextcloud, Etesync, Radicale). Some are free with limited storage, but some are subscription based, but you get calendar, storage, other stuff too. You can additionally self-host a CALDAV server or Nextcloud to use these services gratuit. For a more minimal implentation, try plain text, markdown, orgmode, etc., and use Syncthing to sync between devices.

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      Syncs with Nextcloud as well, very good although the €1 a year subscription is a bit meh

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        If you download it from Fdroid, it doesn’t have a subscription. And it has all the features unlocked.

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          Yes, just found this. Anyways, I was fine to pay few bucks per year, but I need a full functional web version as well.

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            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.

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              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.

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        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).

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    Apple reminders (has gotten better and better, syncs, gets updates, is 100% free, sharing, built in, …).

    Things is also great.

    These are both iOS/macOS though, so sry if you were looking for something else

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      The only thing I wish Apple Reminders has is the ability to set a recurring task like “30 days after task completion”

  • 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.

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      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

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      I’d say the curve is just long, not steep. Most of the capabilities in Org-mode can in my opinion be ignored for a To-Do list.

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      I tried to learn org mode, but I really just did not get it :( Went with Obsidian instead!

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    Apple Reminders, which I now keep in a widget on my phone & iPad home screens. This is mainly for repeating items, like shopping, since I can turn on “show completed” and then uncheck them to put back on the list.

    Or paper notebook, which I normally have in my pocket. This is for more serious things where I need to write some procedure or notes.

    Used to use Things, which is great, but it’s overkill for my current needs.

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    Free as in a standalone app or as in its part of something you already own?

    The gmail and Microsoft both have apps that are not only cross-platform, web-accessible, and cloud sync’d but they integrate with native apps in your phone.

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    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.

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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.

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    2Do - has so many features that I don’t even use half of. Very powerful and I believe it is just a one time charge. Ive been using it for almost a decade now

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    Wow I just mucked around with this just an hour ago because I wanted to swap off ToDoist…

    I found Google Tasks has a bunch of cool apps that work great with its API (including a cool Raycast plugin for Mac users), apps like ToDoist and TickTick do a lot but they had too many features for my liking. I wanted something that was just a simple list like TeuxDeux which can sync between my Mac and Android.

    Settled on the Microsoft ToDo app for ephemeral tasks and I plan to beef up my obsidian vault a little to use it for more long-term tasks. Ultimately it really depends what you’re looking for because there’s so many options

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    (I use Todoist.)

    Have you considered rolling your own? The defacto starter project for basically any application framework is a ToDo app. If you have any interest in learning a new language / framework, check out TODO MVC.

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    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.