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Looks nice, and reassures me that if MS is spending money building a to-do app I wasn't so crazy after all for building my own :-) https://five.today/

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Have not people forever been building to-do apps, and will continue on doing so regardless of Microsoft and others? It's like a rite of passage.

When you learn a new language, invariably you'll find a tutorial for how to make a todo app. It's the next step up from hello world.

I'm not immune from it. I'm making my third todo list app at the moment.

Maybe all the options out there highlight the fact that there's no perfect combination of features for everyone - you'll always find one feature in app X which is not in ap Y or available on platform Z. In my case, I wanted an auto-sorting todo list app on Windows Phone (Listage, in case anyone is interested - though admittedly I don't even use it myself anymore).

> When you learn a new language, invariably you'll find a tutorial for how to make a todo app. It's the next step up from hello world.

Very true—see: http://todomvc.com/

I agree, everyone has a slightly different style of working, myself included.

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