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It’s a new day, and a new task manager to play around with. wunderlist is a simple yet quite featured task manager for the Mac, and Windows, and soon to be on iOS, syncing all the way through a cloud backend, looks pretty on the face of it, and free. Sounds too good to be true? You be the judge.
Let’s start with the app itself. As soon as I saw it was a cross platform app, I knew there had to be something weird about it. When you first launch the app, it runs through some weird downloading routine, finally arriving at a login screen. Registration is the same process as logging in, where you enter your email address and password.
The app feels very Adobe Air-ish, though looking at the styling of the UI, I’d say it’s rendered using Webkit. For starters, if you close the app window, it quits the entire app. There aren’t any global shortcuts, nor does it support systemwide shortcuts. For all intents and purposes, the entire app is wrapped in its shell.
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Look closely at the window. The titlebar looks off. The input field looks off. Inner shadow for sidebar
The task management aspect is divided into lists. Create a bunch of lists or categories, and add tasks in the most straightforward process you can imagine. You can add a due date to your tasks, but no alarms of any kind. You can also flag tasks by clicking the little star icon; those get pushed to the top. The app also also allows you to drag your tasks around, reordering lists or moving them in between lists. When it comes to seeing your tasks, you can use the sorting bar at the bottom to narrow down your tasks by due date. This works on a global level, so you aren’t restricted to just lists. You can also show just your starred tasks, or view the entire list of tasks from everywhere. It’s fairly functional while maintaining simplicity in UI.
The main feature of the app, is the sync. It syncs every few minutes, and I checked the results on the Windows client — works just fine. Which makes this a nice syncing solution for those who also have to work on a PC (but it really needs that iOS client soon).
Drawing Conclusions
I wouldn’t say it’s a bad app, and it might be especially sweet with an iOS client, but wunderlist doesn’t feel right on the Mac. But if you’re looking for a semi-GTD manager, for free, this might be your ticket to success. Just ignore the fact that it has the ability to switch backgrounds. wunderlist.
