Best Free Reminder and To-do List for Android

Now that the mobile phone has become our constant companion, what better place to keep those to do list of things. In the Best Free Reminder and To-do List for Android, I will review many of the top Android apps dedicated to our quest to remember what to do next, and the best thing is they will all be free!   What do you need to do, today, next week, next month, or sometimes just later, we have all created to do lists. Remember the "Day Timer" that many of us carried around in the 70's and maybe still do? In the early 90's the PDA might have taken the place of your hard copy "Day Timer" and in the 2000's David Allen taught us how to get things done (GTD) by better organizing our to-do list. The Reminder and To-do List for Android will help you pick the best one for you.

Check back often and see if your favorite is on the Best Free Reminder and To-do List for Android or is there one on the list that you may want to try. Please leave your comments, your likes or dislikes about an app, and perhaps a to-do app that I should look at and review.

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Astrid Tasks & To-do List is full of features to suit most of your needs yet without sacrificing ease of use in design. To add a task to your to-do list, simply type a few words or speak to your device to set a task title, decide who and when to it with a few taps, press the Plus button and the task is on your list.

When needed, you can edit a task at any time, either add a description, set priorities, reminders and timer controls, or group a task to a list. Task lists can be easily filtered by people, time, places or a project name, with sorting and search functions.

This app works closely with calendars as you can add a task to a calender on your device. Besides syncing tasks with the web version at astrid.com, you can also choose to sync them with your Google Tasks. It comes with automatic backups and allows you to import and export tasks when the need arises.

In Account and Settings, you can even set the app appearance to your liking such as color and widget themes, font size and many other options. On the downside, this app occasionally prompts you to upgrade to the premium version for advanced features which average users may not need.

Within the Settings sub-menu you can add additional Folders, change the Theme (Black text on White or White text on Black), set the First Day of the week you would like your calendar to start on, your Language of choice, Done Tasks shows completed tasks to delete, Sounds for alert notification, and Backups to backup your tasks.

Your tasks can be assigned to a category pressing the Plus Icon next to the time category/ folder name Icon. A feature I really like is if you want to move a task from a time/folder to another you can "long press" on the task hold and slide it to another time/folder without cut and paste. 

If you want to set up task options a tap on the task will brings up task specific options just beneath the task.  The options are in this order, Priority to set the task as a priority item, Folder to assign the task to a folder, Alarm to set the time and date of an alert, note to add a note, and Share to pass the task on to others that you are collaborating with, they must also be using Any.Do.

On Android 4.0 and later the Near Field Communication (NFC) can be used to transfer via the Android Beam feature.

Tasks can also be set up by email, see web page FAQs for more details. FAQs can be found at www.Any.Do/faq.

This is a very sweet To-do list application and once I have reviewed several others, I'll determine where this stands in regards to those.  Any.Do sets a high bar to be measured against for the other To-do List Apps.  I like Any.Do a lot!!

Please leave your comments of this App or of my review in a comment below.

Explorer40

Remember the Milk

Remember the Milk (RTM) and I have started off on the wrong foot, I created a list of things in a note to be attached to a task. Well somehow that list was lost, probability by me touching the wrong Icon.  But no hard feelings, I'm here to give you a review on this App without prejudice, so here goes.

RTM has a nice clean presentation offering 6 options on the home screen. I like the ability to see today's, tomorrow's, and this week's tasks. You can also make lists, tags and add locations that can be used as a search option. To add a task you can pick one of the front screen Icons and press the "Plus Sign" Icon to type in a new task, I didn't see a way to speak in the task.

Pressing the Search Icon (Magnifier) allows you to search your tasks, lists, tags, or locations via a search argument. You can also build Smart Searches which can be saved for repeating your favorite search just by pressing the name of the Search in the Search list. You can also prioritize your tasks by date, priority, tags, location and more. Tagging allows various tasks to be identified based on the tag assigned to the task.

RTM can be synced with various Apps on your other devices. The on line help will show which Apps and how to sync them up to your devices.

A "long press" on a task allows you to change the status of the task or to edit it.  Notes can be attached to a task by pressing the "Three Dot" Icon in the task window.  From the add note screen press the disk Icon to attach and save the note.  I couldn't find a way to search text in the note.

I would like to see "tool tips" pop up when hovering over an Icon,  the ability to search notes, a local help file although this already has a large memory footprint. In regards to the help function a web location is called up to get to the search engine.

Remember the Milk does come in a Pro version which currently has a yearly subscription of $25.00.

This is a large memory app with lots of features, you need to decide if the memory size is worth the features.   Next I will be reviewing Taskos, which is a very small memory app, it may meet your needs and still take up only a small amount of memory.

You might want to check out these articles too:

• Best Free Android Apps
• Best Free iPad Apps
• Best Free iPhone Apps

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