Last week I received an Email from a somehow forgotten service I wanted to try out: Wunderlist. I like the idea of having my notes/todo lists available wherever I am, so an online solution is perfect for me. Even better is the service offers clients for all major mobile platforms.

The Wunderlist interface

Wunderlist focuses on lists of items. Those items are kept pretty simple to one line at first. Once you added an item you can add more details to it and even add a due date which wunderlist will use to send you a reminder email so you do not forget it (as they did for the task I was talking about above). You can cross items off of a list by marking it done. Pretty simple, right?

Simplicity is key

As keeping things clean off distractions to stay productive, keeping the tools you use as simple as possible and as powerful as needed is important. Wunderlist is a pretty basic application with a wonderful and clean UI. Yet it is still doing a pretty good job at enabling you to manage your todos. You can also manage different todo lists – I keep seperate ones for work and private stuff and am currently thinking about putting a new list for things I can do while on the road.

So far I have been using Evernote for note keeping and todo-management, but Evernote has a different target group. Their primairy use case is a note. Where note can basically be anything – including file uploads and more. This is not the case for Wunderlist or I have not found the feature, but, to be honest, I have not had the desire to upload a file to my todo list yet.

Supported platforms

The easiest way to get started with Wunderlist is the web application. For me the Android and the iPad versions came pretty handy. The applications for both platforms are implemented pretty well and work perfectly fine, as one would expect after seeing the web application, which has a really nice user interface. There is also a native application for OS X in case you are a Mac user!

Conclusion

This is a wonderful application to manage my todos. It is a pretty simple todo list with benefits – such as reminders, due dates, web and mobile application. Wunderlist is so far the best and helpful application, be it mobile (Android/iOS) or web that comes out of a German company. The 6 Wunderkinder come out of Berlin, Germany. They are currently also working on a new idea – the Wunderkit. I am curious to see what that will be like, I sure hope it will be of the same quality as the Wunderlist app.

What is your favorite app – be it mobile or web? What are you using for your todo lists? Anything special or the good old fashioned notebook and pen? Do you keep a todo list at all?