Todoroo

Astrid Raises Seed Round for Mobile Productivity Applications San Francisco, CA, July 12, 2011 – Astrid announced its seed funding today from Google Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, and angel investors including Jack Herrick of wikiHow at the annual MobileBeat conference. Astrid, a popular to-do list / productivity application on the Android platform, has helped 1.5 [...]

My three biggest gripes about todo lists/productivity apps are that they are often confusing, expensive and boring.  Astrid is obviously not expensive (it is free!) and you cannot accuse the octopus-with-an-attitude of being boring – but some have been confused by Astrid’s tags. This confusion is often expressed through questions like, “Does Astrid support lists?” [...]