This looks neat and I hope people find it interesting.
I’ve found the best todo app for me comes built into iDevices: Reminders.app. It’s got all the functions of this application, except maybe sophisticated snoozing (I haven’t tried NowDo and can’t say how good it is - snooze on Reminders.app is okay at best).
For one-time tasks, you can make a reminder with an alarm. For habits/recurring tasks, set up a recurring reminder. I assume you can have Focus-oriented lists, but I haven’t looked into it. It’s well integrated into iCloud of course.
Only thing it doesn’t do is give you a mail-to-task pipeline from Mail.app to Reminders.app. That’s a gap that I think needs to be filled.
Edit: nevermind, for mail-to-task just select some text from an email and do the Share… function to Reminders.app, it’ll provide a link back to the email in the reminder.
I think NowDo has quite a different philosophy to Reminders.app. I haven't tried Remoders but I've tried many others over the years. Every time the todo app itself became the distraction. Instead of doing what I'm supposed to be doing I'd be thinking about what task taxonomy I should be using or some other nonsense.
IMHO the lack of features is NowDo's most important and unique feature. I spent about 2 years prototyping and worked hard to remove every feature that wasn't absolutely essential, the less features the fewer distractions.
This won't be right for everyone, I have friends who couldn't live without labels and categories and other such features - but for me they just got in the way of getting stuff done.
You should definitely try the default reminders app because it looks similar to yours. It’s very simple and easy to use, it’s one of my productivity tools. I don’t think I ever even open the actual app, I just ask Siri to make a reminder for me and then complete the reminder in the widget or from the notification. The only advantage I see from yours (based on the website link) is that it’s keyboard-navigable, so maybe you could emphasize that more.
For one-time tasks, you can make a reminder with an alarm. For habits/recurring tasks, set up a recurring reminder. I assume you can have Focus-oriented lists, but I haven’t looked into it. It’s well integrated into iCloud of course.
Only thing it doesn’t do is give you a mail-to-task pipeline from Mail.app to Reminders.app. That’s a gap that I think needs to be filled.
Edit: nevermind, for mail-to-task just select some text from an email and do the Share… function to Reminders.app, it’ll provide a link back to the email in the reminder.