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Can anybody recommend a good checklist app for Android? When I search for "checklist" I only find ToDo-List apps that call themselves "checklist" app.

What I'd like is something where you can set a per-checklist timeout after which the list resets everything to unchecked and maybe allow two different ways to view each checklist (or modes): 1. All at once with little check marks that you can check in any order 2. Strictly ordered checklists where you only see the current task and check it to get to the next, ideally with a "3/14" indicator or progress bar to know how far you've got through the checklist.

Which apps can you recommend?

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Workflowy is the gold standard for me on any platform: it's just a simple, infinitely deep outliner, with minimal features by design.

This sounds like a fun afternoon project for a web or mobile dev.

If nobody replies with a quality app that does this, I'm going to make it for myself and share it here.

This is my weekend project this week, ha. I'm reading Checklist Manifesto and decided there wasn't any good app for it. I'll post back here when it's done.

Cool! I was going to do the same. Reach out to me if you want help, code review, or a tester.

Love to try it out.

Advice (or warning?): I use Checklist Wrangler for iOS.

Checklist templates that repeat based on day of week; auto-archive after X days. Tools for organization into groups, subgroups, etc. A way to view completion over time.

I use it for daily things (daily autocreate, daily autoarchive), weekly things, monthly things, and things I do in order but without a set time (manual creation and... autocreation after completion? no i dont think that's a feature).

Wonderful app for implementing checklists and it's a cornerstone is my toolbox for making sure I'm living my life with intension.

Yet, it's long abandoned and I dont know if it's still for sale in the app store. Probably made little money in a sea of Todo apps.

Nice! If you decide to add NFC sticker capability (scanning a sticker opens a checklist directly) please coordinate with the other person in this thread who might also create an app. I think the NFC data should be the equivalent of "checklist://cessna172cockpit" i.e. it should just contain a reference to the checklist, not the checklist itself. OTOH having the checklist in the NFC sticker, complete with a "last modified" date might be awsome as well, if there are multiple people who use the checklist. Assuming that the whole list even fits in a sticker. Hm...

Have you seen this site: http://todomvc.com/ Pick your JS framework and it's done.

Making a checklist isn't the novel or useful part. It's having recurring lists that reset each day or week.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.isoron.uhabits/

Far from what you require, but OurGroceries is pretty flexible and could meet requirement 1 quite easily. I use it for my travelling checklist every time I go on weekends away (as well as for shopping) https://www.ourgroceries.com/overview

I just use a text editor.

To add to this: I do the same. Actually checking the items off of the list is less important than having the checklist written down.

I started using a checklist when flying internationally. I got tired of forgetting the right plug adapter, for example, and paying $$$$ for a replacement at the airport store. Or having to find a store that sells cuff links.

I often bring two plug adapters, as there's always another guy at the conference who forgot his :-)

Trello can do this repeating checklist to an extent, and it has the progress bar that shows on cards as you complete items.

https://blog.trello.com/trello-card-repeater

What is the timeout that resets the list use case? I'm generally curious.

Just laziness on my part, when you are done with the checklist, get interrupted and start 15 minutes later you might want to still see all the check marks still there, but on the next day, you might be doing a different task.

This needs to be configurable because it depends on task frequency and how long a checked checklist stays relevant.

It might be overkill, just having an easily accessable (but not to easy?) reset button for each list might work as well.

Also, I haven't read the book yet, so my requirements might not be the best.

Check out wunderlist. It also syncs to your computer. You could set up a template list and just duplicate from that for each needed instance.

YAGNI. Just use whatever Notepad-like app that was pre-installed on your device.

Google notes works for me as a simple checklist

The problem here is Google.

Now that I said it is useful I hope Google doesn't shut it down!

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