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5 pointsmofle6 comments

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

It would be great if this could work based on a Reminders list. Then it would additionally be nice to be able to have more than one widget, each linked to a different Reminders list. (You can have different home screens with different widgets for different Focus Modes, which thus could show a task from a focus mode-specific Reminders list.)

The optimal workflow is to add only the tasks you are committed to completing today. The app is designed for task completion, not endless organization and neglect. So not integrating with the Reminders app is an intentional choice.

Yes, but I‘d like to have those tasks in a Reminders list, so I can move them in and out within the Reminders app. Like a “Today” list in the Reminders app where I can move existing todos to. Otherwise I have to organize and maintain tasks in two apps, one for the tasks committed to today, and one for all the others. This is a non-starter. Moving tasks between the two apps would be too much of a hassle.

All todo apps already provide a way to have a Today list. What your app brings to the table is the widget. But if that isn’t interoperable with other task management, then it’s a poor value proposition. If you’d make it interoperable, however, then it’s something I would pay for.

In the next update, there will be a "Paste Tasks" button. So you could then select some tasks in Reminders, copy, and then simply paste them into One Task.

Even if I wanted to integrate with Reminders, it wouldn't work that well. The app would have to be running to synchronoize with Reminders. This means the widget would not update if you made changes in the Reminders app and One Task was not running.

That’s too cumbersome, because when I complete the task in your app, it will still sit in the Reminders app uncompleted. Similar for moving a task in the other direction.

Yes, there will be a certain delay for the widget to update, that’s not perfect, but you can always have it update with a user interaction.

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