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 [...]
Our users love the reminders that Astrid gives. Now we want to know your ideas for great reminders from Astrid. Your submissions can be for phrases that display when a task is due, overdue, snoozed, or completed. They can even be random reminders that pop up to give users encouragement. Examples of a current Astrid [...]
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 [...]
We’ve been testing Astrid.com on our beta users for a few weeks now. One thing we’re hearing is that some people don’t like case sensitive lists (“shopping” and “Shopping” are treated as two distinct lists). We want to make sure we know what our users want. Tell us what you think in the poll below!
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 [...]
Astrid does her best to play nicely with others. She currently does this by supporting sync with Google Tasks and Producteev.com and, in an unsupported version, syncs with Remember the Milk. We hope that understanding some of the joys and challenges of synchronization will help you get more the most out of Astrid. One reason [...]
We recently improved Astrid by replacing our use of the native Android date picker (pictured below) with a new custom one. This way of choosing a date has, for us, always left something to be desired. In version 3.0 we made it possible to avoid this in many cases when choosing relative dates (today, tomorrow, [...]