Wunderlist seems to have offline apps for Mac and PC, Liese.

I'm pretty invested in Astrid by now, and if Wunderlist doesn't have Locale/Tasker plugins, it's not going to be for me. It's been very useful for my automation tools to be able to read data from my to do list. I need every crutch I can find.

I just created a Locale setting so that if I put my tablet face down during the "night", audio is turned off. That's got to be one of the most useful things I thought of doing, because now I can take my tablet to bed, and know it won't wake me up unless I want it to. Without having to remember settings or shit.

Did I mention crutches?

OMG that's the best thing I've ever heard of.

Checking out wunderlist now.

Hmm.

So is Astrid configurable with either Tasker or Locale? I see the Local plugin, but it's workable with Tasker, too, right?

All Locale plugins work with Tasker.

I really need to get going on my conversion to Tasker, but there's that learning curve thingy. Anyway, let me go pay for Astrid. That will make me feel like I've accomplished something.

eta: Huh. I see other widget packages (paid) that say the integrate with Astrid. I hadn't thought of that...but I'll still buy the Astrid Power Pack anyway.

Okay. I figure if I'm going to learning curve anyway, I probably might as well start with Tasker. I don't mind tweaking stuff ad infinitum.

My problem with Tasker is that it provides so much more potential that I get brain freeze at the possibilities. Variables, Liese, variables. You can pass variables.

But I will start off by just converting the Locale stuff that was actually useful (god, the day I turned Locale off to save battery life? So not worth it--I'd totally gotten used to my phone automatically behaving itself during work meetings. Get a charging cable instead).

Nom nom nom, variables.

Okay. I bought everything. I am going to have to do work work for, like, an hour, because I can tell already my whole evening is going to be caught up in learning curve.

And then maybe I should just sit down and do some thinking about what I *want* it to do, exactly.

then maybe I should just sit down and do some thinking about what I *want* it to do, exactly.

Seriously, do this first. You'll change your list when you get into the app and see what it can do, but I think it helps you to solve your problems if you quantify them first, and it will also give you a clear path for what to learn.

(Um, Systems Analyst reflex there--feel free to pretend it never happened)

Hee, no, you're right. Right now I'm all handwavey, "It should help me, like, and do stuff when I want it to" but there are some very clear specific cases, and I should get a distinct vision of what I'd like to see.