The basics of natural language input are more elegant in Fantastical, but Todoist deals with more aspects of task management.īefore version 10, Todoist had a basic implementation of natural language that recognized simple commands such as “today at 10 am”, turning them into reminders and due dates. Fantastical has been built for information stored in Reminders and Apple’s Calendar – it doesn’t deal with collaborators, file attachments, labels, or sub-tasks. It’s a bit unfair, though, to compare Fantastical and Todoist from this standpoint. This made Fantastical faster and easier to use for me: I could launch the app, type everything in one go, and trust that the app would parse all the relevant fields. In Todoist, you’ll need to tap in different fields to type a task name, date, project, label, and more, whereas Fantastical is able to parse fields from a single sentence. More importantly, the biggest difference between natural language in Fantastical and Todoist is that you’re not typing in a single field and letting the app figure everything out on its own. In hindsight, these two paragraphs were prescient: I upgraded to a beta of Todoist 10 a few weeks ago, and, while it doesn’t profoundly change the capabilities of Todoist on iOS, the new version brings some powerful (and long-needed) functionality that will help users be more efficient and spend less time managing todos.įor me, the biggest frustration with Todoist on iOS was the friction it put on creating new tasks with attached details (date, time, notes) when compared to the ease of use of Fantastical. In spite of my appreciation, though, I’ve been critical of Todoist’s iOS app before, and I’m happy to see the company addressing some of my major complaints in Todoist 10, launching today for iPhone and iPad. If I have to jump from a couple of tasks each day to a few dozen, I can rest assured Todoist can do it. If a big new project comes in and I need to take care of it with my team and have a deeper visualization of my responsibilities, I know I can count on Todoist. Everything from my original review still stands: while I don’t rely on all of Todoist’s features, its flexibility allows me to scale my tasks and projects at any time. Over the past five months, I’ve kept using Todoist every day and I’ve enjoyed its reliability and integration with other apps and services. The Todoist app for iOS integrates well with iOS 8, and, overall, I’m thoroughly satisfied with my decision to switch from Reminders to a professional-grade todo system to manage my life. I’m not writing scripts for task management, I’m not changing icons and themes – I set up a few filters and I’m just focusing on doing stuff. Todoist strikes a good balance of powerful features and clever implementation that doesn’t push me to customize everything all the time. Last November, I wrote about my decision to switch from iCloud Reminders to Todoist as my task management app of choice.
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