Organization: We favored apps that offered features like subtasks, projects, and task labels to keep all your work tidy and in the right place.

We preferred apps that displayed tasks alongside calendar events, but we also considered any app that plugged into calendars from Google Calendar, iCloud, or other services. This makes it easier to triage your workload effectively.

Calendar integration: Apps that integrate with your existing calendar, whether by showing the day’s events above the daily tasks or having a separate calendar tab, give a better overview of all the information you need to best determine how to tackle your work.

For now, you can play on the mostly phone-based preview starting today. It's not a complete substitute for Wunderlist just yet: sharing lists is a feature that's apparently in the works, and the app will also eventually land in Mac, iPad and Android tablet editions too. (It's already built an importer tool to move your tasks across from Wunderlist and Todoist.) While Wunderlist won't be getting any new features and will eventually be sunsetted later this year, the team plans to incorporate users' suggestions and feedback before Microsoft switches to To-Do. To-Do will also include flexible reminders that you can bake in to recur on weekdays, Monday mornings, whenever you need 'em. To-Do's 'intelligent suggestions' will pull tasks from your old, existing and future lists, automagically prioritising those it deems most important. You can then attach unfinished list items by tapping on a lightbulb in the corner. 'My Day' will offer you a clean slate every. It's available on iPhones, Android and web browsers now.

In its place, Microsoft is announcing To-Do Preview, its early version of Wunderlist's spiritual successor that's already packing some improvements. At least, that's how the Microsoft-bought team is putting the news that the list and task management app is headed for retirement.

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