Wunderlist repeating tasks
July 2, 2011 by Martin
Wunderlist is an awesome todo app. It works across mobile and PC platforms — well, except for on Linux — and they have a really nice HTML5 web app. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of some other todo apps. But that’s just fine with me, as I really like the simplicity of Wunderlist.
The one function I really would like to see in Wunderlist is todo templates, for things you tend to do relatively often. Grocery shopping is one simple example. Many times when I go shopping for groceries I buy all the staples. You’d think I could easily remember what those are. But, surprisingly, I don’t all the time. If I could have a groceries template that I could use to create a todo list, that would be great. Now, that’s something Wunderlist doesn’t do. So, I had to find a way to mimic this functionality myself.
Wunderlist does allow you to email yourself tasks from the email account you signed up with. To create a todo list you simply put the name of the todo list in the subject of an email and all the tasks in a simple list with each task on a new line. Well, that’s convenient. To get things to work the way I wanted it to work, I created a bunch of email templates for my repeating todo lists. When I want to create a new todo list quickly and easily, I simply take one of my email templates and fire it off to me@wunderlist.com. This creates a new todo list in my Wunderlist on the fly. Pretty nice, huh?
Comments (1)
Cool tip!
Wish they would just add repeating tasks–or, as for grocery lists, repeating checklists!
But, in the meantime, thanks for this!
Could be useful for other todo apps, too.
I currently use Appigo’s Todo, but it’s been running into problems with synching, losing tasks with upgrades, etc. so I’m looking around.
I particularly like Wunderlist’s Today feature!