I have been searching for an app that lets me quickly write notes that also double as tasks – and therefore could use a due date/time and reminder alarm. There is the built-in “todo” capability in OS X iCal, but not only does it sport a terrible UI, it is also dismal at syncing across computers (this feat can be accomplished, as far as I know, only by the hack of storing such Todos on an IMAP server). Below is a summary of my quirky search for such a tool. Quirky because the authors of these apps could justifiably object that their app is being unfairly evaluated here. For example, Day One is a journal application, not a note-taking app, much less a task manager. At the same time, there are candidates, like JustNotes, that have a reasonable claim to appear on any such list. But nevertheless, here they are:

• MyTaskNotes: Mac notes and tasks app
• Evernote: multi-platform note manager
• Wunderlist: multi-platform task manager with sharing
• Notificant: multi-system notification for Mac and web
• Day One: daily journal app for Mac and iPhone
• 2Do: an iPhone task manager with sync to OSX/Windows

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