
Your account and profile are at the top followed by a menu of tabs: ‘Assigned to me’, ‘Today’, ‘Week’ and ‘Home’ and others. Your home screen (on the mobile application) has a side bar. It is easy to get started and has an intuitive interface. There are some great reasons to use this app. There’s no doubt the news is a negative but you can still get some use out of it, and the app may never be discontinued. Not only that, if the application is terminated Microsoft will release a warning and give you time to migrate onto their own application (‘Microsoft To Do’) or find yourself another. That makes complete sense, but two years has passed, and Wunderlist is still available for download. Their rocketing trajectory has slowed considerably since Microsoft announced it would be discontinued. At the time they were bought out by Microsoft, Wunderlist had accumulated 13 million users. Unfortunately for many, the Berlin-based start-up (‘6Wunderkinder’) sold Wunderlist to Microsoft in 2015, just two years after its release in April 2013. ‘Wunderlist’, or should I say ‘Microsoft To Do’? This was a first for Wunderlist-previously it was only possible to share to individuals-and it solved the problem of a slow and tedious sharing experience for larger teams and organizations.Is Wunderlist still the wonder list it once was? Anyone with access to this link could then join and contribute to the list. In the compose pane we built an extension that allowed users to embed a link to their lists into the email.

We built two extensions here, the regular "Add to Wunderlist" extension which allowed users to preview the task before creating it (shown below), and a "Quick Add" extension which created the task in the background with just the click of a button. In the reading pane we built an extension that used natural language processing to parse email content into an actionable To-Do's. The goal was to give users access to relevant task actions while in the context of reading or sending an email. After being acquired by Microsoft, one of my first projects was to integrate Wunderlist into Outlook Web through their “Add in” extensions.
