When comparing Microsoft To Do vs Taskwarrior, the Slant community recommends Taskwarrior for most people. In the question“What are the best cross-platform task apps?” Taskwarrior is ranked 2nd while Microsoft To Do is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Taskwarrior is:
The command line interface puts powerful filtering expressions, context, annotations, tags, due dates, reoccurrence, and user-defined-attributes totally in your hands. It’s fast and low friction.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Very basic and straightforward
Simple interface and streamlined.
Pro Multidevice sync
Pro Cross-platform
Available on Android, iOS, Windows and web.
Pro Office integration
Pro Reminders and Due Dates
Pro Smart suggestions
Pro Can also be used as a note-taking app
Pro Infinite color-coded lists
Pro Make todos in one minute or less
Pro The best from Microsoft
Pro Command line interface
The command line interface puts powerful filtering expressions, context, annotations, tags, due dates, reoccurrence, and user-defined-attributes totally in your hands. It’s fast and low friction.
Pro Extensible
Taskwarrior has many front-ends, services, extensions, hook scripts, and capsules available. Taskwarrior keeps a list of contributed tools on their site.
Pro Lightweight and fast
Taskwarrior is written in the speedy C++ language.
Pro Tasks stored in plain text files locally
Future-proof and easily integrated with version control system. You never lose access to your data.
Pro Sync across devices
When used in conjunction with the Taskserver, it can sync tasks (conflict-free) across your Taskwarrior devices. This includes integration with Mirakel.
Pro Supported internationally
It has UTF8 support and is translated into many languages.
Pro Customizability
Taskworrior allows you to define custom attributes and reports to your needs.
Pro Self-hosted Taskserver
You can be in full control of your data.
Cons
Con Few features
It doesn't have a lot of features that Wunderlist had, which was discontinued for this app.
Con No Tag-Manager
Other apps let you better make use of labels.
Con No Natural Language Support
Con A Microsoft Product
Some people have a distaste for Microsoft, and may avoid it for this reason. This includes people who are angry that Wunderlist has been discontinued in favor of this app.
Con Command line interface
A command line interface is a arguably overly verbose, consequently tedious, way to interact with a To Do list.