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Wunderlist | To-do List Awesomeness on Every Platform

By on March 11, 2011 in Featured, iOS Apps, PC Software

There’s so many to-do list apps today for all of the major computing platforms that you can quickly get overwhelmed trying to choose one. Most to-do list apps on Windows are old and clunky, while many iOS to-do list apps are an island to themselves and don’t let you sync or share tasks. It’s enough sometimes to make you just want to go back to just using a pad of paper. But wait: that surely can’t be the best solution. It’s the 21st century; can’t we have our tasks on any platform, synced, and shared with anyone we need? Can it really be that hard?

Enter Wunderlist. Wunderlist is an awesome new to-do list app that’s beautiful, feature filled, and amazingly, free! Actually, it’s is as much of a platform as it is an individual app. With to-do list apps for Windows, OS X, Android, iPad, iPhone, Android, and the web, you can keep up with everything you need to do no matter where you are or what device you’re using. While there are many beautiful and functional to-do list apps on OS X and iOS, Windows typically hasn’t had many modern to-do list apps that are both easy to use and stylish. Wunderlist’s Windows app alone makes it a winner, but add in the apps for other platforms, and it’s even better.

It contains all the features you’ll need to keep up with your tasks. You can add lists to organize to-dos, add a star to prioritize them, add a date to make sure you don’t forget when your task is due, and add notes to remember more about the task. Need to rearrange tasks? Simply drag and drop them to get them in the correct order. Then, find your tasks with the integrated search box, or reorder them based on priority or due date from the bottom buttons. You can even customize the app with a number of high quality background images. Best of all, you can share lists with others so your family, team, or business can stay connected in a simple Wunderlist to-do list. I’ve used this to share ideas with coworkers and editors over the past month, and it’s worked amazingly flawlessly.

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Wunderlist works almost the exact same on every platform, but contains the small touches it takes to integrate great with particular platforms as well. On Windows, it uses a standard window and tray icon; on iPad, you’ll see iOS style pop-overs and inertia scrolling. You can enter tasks with keyboard shortcuts in Windows, OS X, and the webapp, while the mobile apps let you swipe to delete tasks and pull down to refresh a page. The same great features are there in each of the apps, though: contact syncing, sharing, organization, and a beautiful, easy to use experience. Best of all, if you’ve signed in with the same account on all of your devices, your tasks will automatically stay in sync. No more manually syncing or copying tasks between apps; you’ll just stay connected to what you need to do.

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The iPhone app is especially handy since you can view and add tasks on the go. Wunderlist can even notify you when your tasks are due with standard iOS alerts and icon indicators. If you have an Android device, you can use the new Wunderlist Android app as well. Or, if you want, you can add new tasks by emailing them to me@wunderlist.com from your account email address, and can choose to be alerted via email when tasks are due. This way, even if you don’t have the latest mobile device, you can still keep up with your Wunderlist account on the go.

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And, now, Wunderlist is equally at home in your browser! The newly released Wunderlist webapp brings all of Wunderlist’s features to any browser, so now you can use it from your Ubuntu computer or Chrome netbook. Or, if you don’t want to install a new program without knowing if you’ll like it, you could just give it a try in your browser. If you like it, then install it on your Mac, PC, or mobile device. Everything works almost the same as it does in Wunderlist’s Mac and PC apps; you can create new lists, drag and drop tasks to rearrange them, search across all of your tasks, and more. You can even change the background just like you can in any of the other apps. Whether on the web, an iOS device, your PC, or almost any other device, the Wunderlist experience is the same. This is easily one of the best cross-platform apps we’ve seen that merges your mobile device, PC, and browser experience.

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But, hey, we could talk all day about getting organized with awesome to-do list apps, but that doesn’t help us get everything we need to do, done. Usually it’s a tough decision whether or not you should spend money on yet another productivity app. You have to decide if you need your tasks on your smartphone, PC, or online, and whether you can live without everything in sync or not. Today, Wunderlist has made these decisions obsolete. Wunderlist gives you synced, shared, and scheduled to-dos on almost any platform, for free. The only problem I’ve had is that the Wunderlist apps are somewhat slower than fully native apps that are built specifically for one platform. That said, recent updates have really improved the performance, and the iOS app now runs just as fast as Things or other similar apps. Plus, it lets me share and sync tasks, something few other apps even offered. There’s no reason not to give it a try on your browser, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android phone or tablet today. So go download it today, quit saying you’re going to find the perfect to-do list app, and just give it a try.

At least that’s one thing off your to-do list!

Checkout Wunderlist’s Awesome website and download it for your platform

Or, just Get started directly online with the Wunderlist Web App

Download Wunderlist for iPhone or Wunderlist HD for iPad

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Evernote Site Memory on Techinch

By on September 13, 2010 in Techinch

Have you ever read an article online that you’d like to make sure you remember?  Several months ago I wrote about how the Evernote Chrome addon with Site Memory had entirely changed how I use Evernote.  In fact, now I use Evernote as the primary way I bookmark sites, since I can tag the bookmarks, include clips from the page, and easily find all my favorite pages in one site.  The only problem is, the Chrome web clipper only works in Chrome, so if you’re browsing the ‘net on friend’s computer or at a library you might not be able to use it.

Last week, Evernote made it easier again to clip content from the internet with the new Evernote Site Memory button.  This is a new button that web publishers can add to their pages to let readers easily clip their content.  Techinch was one of the first sites to integrate the new Evernote button, so now you can easily save any article you read here to your Evernote notebook.

Here’s how it works.  Say you read our article on student discounts on Office 2010, and wanted to make sure to not lose the info.  So, scroll to the bottom of the article, and click the Remember button with the elephant icon.

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This will open the Evernote web clipper in a smaller popup window.  If you’re not already signed into Evernote, enter your username and password, and click Sign in.  Alternately, if you’ve never used Evernote before, click Sign up now and create a new account.

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Now, you can edit the title of the note, add tags, select the notebook you wish to store this note in, and add a text note of your own.

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When adding tags to web clips, you’ll be able to quickly select from tags you’ve already used as you start typing.

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Once you’re finished adding the info you want, click Clip.  Evernote will then prepare the note, which may take a few moments, depending on the size of the page you clipped.

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You’ll then see a small preview of the note in the window.  You can now just close the window and go back to browsing, or you can choose to view the note in Evernote online.  Your note will automatically be synced to any devices you use Evernote on, so you could alternately check your favorite Evernote app.

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Here’s the note in Evernote web.  Note that it included all the content from the article, including images and links, so you can now find the info you needed quicker than ever.  You can also click Go to source to look the page back up.

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Now, let’s say you came across our review of Evernote Essentials, and wanted to save it as well.  Just click the Remember button as before.  This time, you’ll notice a button on the bottom of the web clipper that says Clips from Techinch.com.

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Click this to see all the notes you’ve clipped from Techinch.  Now you can easily go to the other pages you’ve clipped, or open the notes about them in Evernote.

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You’ll see the same Site Memory in the Chrome Web clipper, so this will keep all of your notes and clips available whether you’re at home or in an internet café on the other side of the globe, using your laptop, a public computer, or your smartphone!

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If you’re running your own website and would like to integrate Evernote into your articles, check out the Evernote button builder as well as their detailed instructions for integrating the button with WordPress and Tumblr sites.  If you run into a problem adding it to your site, leave a comment below and I’ll try to help you get it working!  Or, if you’ve already added it to your site, leave the link below so we can check it out!

And don’t forget … whenever you want to remember an article you read on Techinch, click the Remember button at the bottom.  Feel free to tweet or Like the article on Facebook, too!

Happy Clipping!

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Sync all your email accounts with Hotmail

By on February 17, 2010 in How-To Geek

For all the talk about Gmail, Hotmail is still a very viable and highly used webmail service.  My main email account is a Windows Live Hotmail, and I can easily access it from Outlook, hotmail.com, or my Windows Phone, depending on what I’m doing.  Most of my emails come to my @live.com Hotmail address, but I also have a number of other email accounts, including from my college, Gmail, and more.  The great thing is that all of my mail is always avialable through Hotmail.  No matter where I am, I can easily check Hotmail and get all of my email!

So how do I do this?  Check out my article at How-To Geek for more info!

Keeping track of multiple email accounts can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re a Hotmail user, you might want to integrate all of your POP3 accounts into a single address for more efficient access. 

Hotmail can send and receive emails from any POP3 enabled account, and it even supports SSL for secure connections.  Most email accounts from your internet service provider, work, or school will work directly in it.  Make sure to have your other account info, as you may need it in advanced setup. For this demonstration we’ll walk through setting up a Gmail account, but it should work with your other POP3 accounts as well.

Read on for more information – How to Add POP3 Email Accounts to Hotmail

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Matthew @ How-To Geek

By on February 15, 2010 in How-To Geek

What’s the best way to make tech simpler? Well, what’s better than detailed how-to guides on the very best of Windows, virtualization, apps, the cloud, and more?  How-To Geek has been doing a great job at this for some time, and they have many very helpful posts with vibrant screenshots and detailed instructions on ways to make tech work better for you.  And I’m proud to announce that I’ve joined their team!  I’ve been getting situated this past week, and today my first post has been published as the featured article of the day!  I couldn’t be more excited.  So, without further introduction, here’s my first How-To Geek post about a product I love, Windows Live Mesh:

Sync Files Between Computers and Mobile Devices with Live Mesh

This is only the start, and I have tons of other exciting articles coming in addition to the usual great articles that How-To Geek publishes.  But not just there; stay tuned here too, as I’m still continuing to publish new, unique articles both here at Techinch and at Digital Inspiration as well.  Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS or Twitter feed, and I’ll post all of my new articles across the ‘net right here.  Enjoy, and let me know anything you’d like to see covered and I’ll make sure it’s covered at one of these places!

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More articles at Digital Inspiration

By on January 13, 2010 in Digital Inspiration

Here’s a second installment with links to my writing that’s been published at Digital Inspiration. Hope you find something interesting and useful here; if you, check out my first list of articles at Digital Inspiration.  I will continue to list my new articles going forward, so check back here for updates.

Wow, that was a long list!  Once again, remember to check back here at www.techinch.com frequently, as I’ll keep adding my writing from Digital Inspiration and unique articles just for Techinch.  And if you’d like to see something covered here, let me know, and I’ll try to cover it either here or at Digital Inspiration.  Enjoy!

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