Since we announced the Astrid 4.0 beta for Android, we have been overwhelmed with all the encouragement and feedback. In the days leading up to Astrid’s next Android market release, you can expect to see many more improvements and changes. Today, we are announcing two more ways you can get things off your to-do list. Invite [...]
The Astrid team has been hard at work on an entirely new version of Astrid worthy to be called Astrid 4.0. We have been designing Astrid 4.0 with the following goals: 1) To Make it Easier to Use Through extensive user testing, surveys and our personal use we have seen (sometimes with gut-wrenching pain) many [...]
Astrid 3.9.2 is now available and has some big improvements. 1) Better new user experience. As the most powerful to-do list on Android we knew we needed to do a better job educating new users. While we understand that those of you who are reading this blog probably aren’t new, we wanted you to know [...]
We have been hard at work making Astrid for Android better. This includes fixing bugs, adding features and making it easier to use. In the upcoming 3.9 release you’ll notice the edit page is much simpler (see below). The goal was to simplify and speed it up while preserving functionality. A couple highlights: Tapping on [...]
Are you hosting this year’s Thanksgiving dinner or organizing a get-together around the holidays? Astrid’s shared lists can be a lifesaver.The Astrid team is putting together a list of suggestions on how Astrid can help, and we would love to hear your ideas.A couple suggestions we have received already: Are you going to have anything [...]
Top Android Productivity App Now on iPhone – Enables a Whole New Audience to Accomplish Even More With The Help of Their Friends SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27, 2011 – Astrid (astrid.com), a leading Android to-do list app, today brings its popular shared productivity manager to the iPhone. With more than 2.5 million downloads, Astrid has become the app [...]
The #1 most requested feature on Astrid’s customer support page is subtasks. We are currently exploring how to implement subtasks without making things too complicated. Please tell us what you think of our proposal by taking the poll below! Proposed implementation of subtasks on the web (see above): Subtasks would be simple: – Checkbox [...]
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?” [...]
We just gave Astrid a much needed design update. See the before and after below. Many of the changes are subtle – updating images, lining up design elements, decreasing the size of checkbox, and using color more conscientiously - but the overall effect is to make it look cleaner and simple. We are grateful to all those [...]