Glad I finally checked it out

After enjoying access to calendar, notes, contacts and todos in Outlook during my Windows days, I kept trying to find a similar all-in-one app when I switched to Apple a few years ago. I gave up and finally settled on at least having todos and calendar together in Fantastical. But maintaining todos in Fantastical turned out to be fussy. Fantastical’s Apple Watch app works OK, but requires several taps to get to the todos, and they cannot be sorted into a few lists. I am not one of those folks who like complex todo managment, but I do like having a half dozen different lists. So I finally spent the nearly $20 Canadian to install Clear on my iPhone, iPad, Mac and iMac. The learning curve was as fast as the installation procedure. Only took half an hour to get set up and switched over to Clear on all my devices. Clear has its own user interaction methods (swipes and taps on iDevices, mouse and could use trackpad but I don’t on Mac). iCloud sync was a breeze to set up and worked flawlessly, but I had to wait a few minutes for changes on one device to propagate. Delighted to see that dragging items between lists works so easily. The Mac window is small so I can park it on all desktops. The Watch app and glance are the best of the todo Watch app implementations I have found yet: very accessible and easy. For me, 4 starts is great and 5 is near perfection. So far I give Clear 4+. No regrets at all.

ChugginAlong about Clear – Tasks, Reminders & To-Do Lists, v1.1.7