Hello everyone and welcome back to keep productive to the YouTube channel. It is Francesco here
and in today's video we're going into the top 5 to-do list applications of
2019 now we wanted to refresh this list for you guys
So that you can go and choose the most suitable to do list application for all of your work and life needs
now i've hand selected 5 of these that I think are the most reliable and also the most
Cross-platform to some extent and also have the most abilities packed into an experience and a good price
So hopefully you can walk away with all you need to know about to do this taps
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So guys let's dive into the list to do this app some really important obviously because they're the first thing you open in the morning
For a lot of people and the last thing you shut at night
Will it either than that or Facebook at least but let's start with number one
And the first one we'd like to recommend is to do it now todoist has been around for a fair while now
around about 10 years and it's been a pretty
Reliable solution for many people now. What a
Lot of people like about todoist and what it's great in showing it to new users is it has basic abilities?
So if you gave this to someone who just wanted to use it to use in a light fashion, for example
Just using it to manage their garden maintenance or even managing their home maintenance some of their shopping list items things like that
They can use it really really well because it tailors to the basic needs so you can use the inbox for capturing stuff
the today area for planning what's on today and next seven days for organizing what's coming up and
It also tailors to the advanced users so you can still utilize it for filters
labels and other such
Experiences and go a lot deeper than just the basic use and that's perfect for those productivity nerds using it for both
their own use and project management use as well or at least the liked project management now the application
Premium is priced at $36 and it is available on pretty much all platforms
You've even got it available on chrome Gmail and I believe there's a Firefox application
But I'll leave a link in description if there is or isn't but as you can imagine
It's reliable. It's got a lot of punch for its money. And also it does have a good free experience as well
now as you can imagine
I'm a little bit biased to this one because I'm a to do this user as of 6 years ago
and I've been using it pretty consistently since so just to let you know that I
Favor this application very highly
Now number two is ticktick now for those who don't know tick tick is a rising star
productivity space at least in the last four or five years
It does is very similar to to do a slim sense because it has the same sort of feature set
Allowing you to add you know
Smart lists and coordinate your next seven days and organize what's on tomorrow today having an inbox and things like that
And naturally you can invite users to collaborate on lists with you
but what ticktick does quite nicely above the application to do is is
It has a calendar experience for premium users and this helps to coordinate
Some of the efforts you may be
planning in terms of visually so you can go onto the calendar start arranging those tasks time blocking and could even
Connect it to an existing calendar
Let's say Google or Apple calendars you may have now one of the things as well
That ticktick does really good is it is adding more experiences?
So for desktop for web versions and Mac and Windows
You've now got Kanban so you can turn any ListView into a Kanban experience, which is great
If you've come from Trello, this is something to do this one to add later this year
But now it's available on ticktick
You also have a Pomodoro timer and a habit tracker and you can find the Pomodoro timer on most of the experiences
But you've also got the habit tracker available on Android in there tik tik 5.0 edition
So the application packs a few unique experiences, especially with the themes and a host of different things
we've actually done a video on the pros and cons of tik tik more recently that you can check out and we'll include
In a link in description now, it's priced a little bit cheaper than todoist at $27.99
Dollars, which is pretty reasonable and will get you quite far per year and it seems to be packing a few more features into todoist
at least now number three and we like to recommend things three for this one and as you can imagine
Things Surrey isn't necessarily the most cross-platform solution out there
If you don't know things readers developed things to eat is developed by cultured code and it's only available on iOS
Mac now if you're an Apple user, that's perfect
if you're an Android and whip them windows use it and even a web user you will be out of
obviously access to this application now think sorry is a good balance between
ticktick and
OmniFocus an application. We'll talk about in a moment
Now why we say that is because it's got good consistent abilities in being able to provide you with a good to-do list application
That's similar to to-do lists and tick tick but it also has some advanced abilities that correlate to the likes of
GTD which is inside of OmniFocus 3
So things sorry is a very reliable application of all the years that I've used it and tested it
It's provided a good experience the cloud sync works very well
And you have features that allow you to plan ahead especially in projects and areas
Which I know a lot of people like
Now you aren't going to be limited because it doesn't have any sharing abilities in terms of sharing with other people
but it's a great personal to do this application that tends to be chosen for very particular individuals using iOS and
Mac now tiago 40 actually uses this as his task manager
And it seems to work well for him. So the only problem with things 3 is the pricing and it's pretty highly priced at
$49.99 on and the problem is there is you can't get one license. It covers all of them
You have to get individual licenses
So that's going to cost you if you had all of those devices in region of again a little bit of maths for me
70 $80 if you have an iPad and an iPhone and a Mac device now you
We have to pay one off. So I guess if you
Settle with this application it would probably pay back in say three years of use
So I guess it makes sense when you're looking at it like that
So number four is something that I know a lot of people will be mentioned in comments
Why have you put this in here and that is Microsoft to do and the main reason I want to state
This is because Microsoft to do have done a good job this year in terms of delivering a reliable application
It is now available Mac, which means it it is available on iOS Android web Windows and Mac
Which makes it pretty cross-platform experience and it's good. It's slowly adding features that allow it to be
Catching up with the likes of todoist and ticktick at the very least. It's got an inbox for organizing stuff
It's got custom projects
So for example, if you want to create a project
You've got a custom layout that you can design now myself to do have been pretty open that they plan to add more and more
Features over time when it comes to just adding small things from tags to abilities in the comments
So Microsoft to do have obviously got a user voice page
Which allows you to see all of their coming updates and they're very responsive to adding them at least in the last
6 to 12 months and that's really good news
And that's why I wanted to add them in the actual list number four here because I think it's a pretty reliable
application that Microsoft tend to push and
Focus a lot of their attention on at least in the next couple of months
Okay
So number five our final recommendation to you guys is OmniFocus 3 now this is it GTD based
application so it's going to be a little higher priced and
also
It's going to be more of an experience that it's tailored towards those who have followed GTD or at least have an advanced task management
setup
It's got a range of different abilities including
Perspectives views and also a way to review your tasks at the end of the week
We actually did a video here on the channel with Justin DeRose who did a fantastic
Tour of hip OmniFocus account now one we focus premium is reasonably priced
It's now a script subscription pricing, but the the actual development is created by Omni group
Which is a company that developed a range of different productivity and enterprise tools
And the good thing is their co-founder or their founder at least can case has developed a range of good applications
And they have a good respect among productivity users
now again
This is going to be more of a specific application
But it is definitely one of the best to do this applications out there
If you know what you're doing with the application and the prices right view, of course
And of course you don't be applying it maybe specifically to a work situation. I don't know many people that actually use
OmniFocus for less than work for example using it in a light personal situation like every day around the house
Ok guys. So those were the top five. I hope you found them useful
I wanted to shout out about two notable mentions
The first is any do this is a reliable application that provides you with lists
And it plans to add more artificial intelligence or machine learning features in the future
Allowing you to connect up with other services but in the moment it
represents it is a way for you to create simple lists and coordinate your tasks and
Using features like these and any due moment abilities you can go through and process some of your tasks really easily again
This is a pretty reliable applications been around for a while
It's available on all devices and seems to work really well for many millions of users that already use it the second recommendation
that the notable recommendation is
Rememberthemilk. This has been around for a while
But they tend to slowly and improve this experience has been around probably since the early days of the productivity world
But it's definitely worth checking out their web version looks great there iOS version looks great, and it seems to be a reliable application
Especially if you're looking for a balance between ticktick and say things free sort of a middle ground there
It seems to follow a lot of things for GTD users at least and the final recommendation
I know I said - but I've just thought of one is navona HQ
if you're looking at OmniFocus and you're thinking okay, this might be a little bit overpriced or overcomplicated and I want something it maybe just
sticks and teaches me GTD
Maybe you want to go with Nirvana HQ
which is a great application that follows GTD pretty regularly routinely and works very well as a really
Medium priced application at the very least. So guys. I hope you enjoyed those recommendations
Please do let me know in the comments below which application you use
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