In my previous post, I outlined why I was leaving Todoist after many years. Despite the fact that I have months to run on my premium account, I cancelled future premium payments. While doing so, I was asked to explain why, and I again explained that two posts that did not break any rules were removed from the Todoist sub-Reddit. I never heard from the company. It is now too big to care.
There are some excellent services out there that could handle my relatively simple task management requirements, but Notion, Asana etc were too complex and overkill. I decided to narrow it down to Superlist and Any.Do. I had been running the latter in parallel to Todoist to write a review so I had a pretty good idea of its capabilities.
Superlist was a relative unknown, despite the fact it was being developed by the team responsible for Wunderlist. I came in at the late beta stage and even now, some months after it was released into the wild, I cannot gel with it. Development seems very slow and the price of the premium version is around double for Any.Do. My relatively simple lifestyle does not warrant spending More than £100 for a year’s sub.
So, I have opted for Any.Do. My life does not warrant choosing the workspace option so I am running the premium, single-user subscription. Also, as I live most of my life in the Protonsphere, I cannot use the calendar option which requires users to link up with Google or Outlook calendars.
Although I am unable to use the events option in My Day, I can use this module to plan the next 24 hours. Not being able to get rid of the banner that says I can join a video meeting with one click is a bit of a bummer, but I can live with it. Also, tasks created within My Day are shown in the main tasks section; for some reason, I did not expect this to happen!
The free version is somewhat limited in options, but once you pay the reasonable annual fee, you can beat the service into organisational submission with multiple lists and tags.
There is one bugbear in the web option. If I decide today at noon to create a future task for 8:00 am, if I want it to remind and repeat, it allows the chosen day but only allows times from noon today, I cannot go back to 8:00 am. Weird!
Going premium also allows you to choose from a good selection of alternatives to the free backgrounds which are, by and large, bloody awful.
One of the key factors in favour of the service is that its technical support team are the best I have come across and second to none.
I was going to delete my Todoist account today but it seems they have beaten me to it. An attempt to log in was blocked as it didn’t recognise the email and password I had used for months. I don’t expect I will see a refund for the remaining months I have paid for.
So, Todoist has served up a fait accompli and forced my hand to adopt a new task manager. Am I unhappy? No, Any.Do more than suits my needs. Disappointed, yes as I hoped Todoist would have had bigger balls to accept mild and proactive criticism from a long-term user.
Edited to add that after querying Todoist shutting down my account, I have received a refund for the outstanding months.
