Microsoft bought Wunderlist. What will we do?

If you are a service user Wunderlist, the news about the fact that his Microsoft acquired the company, was to plunge you into a state of deep concern. This company has long been famous for his ability to melt the gold in an incomprehensible substance (names Nokia and Skype you say something?), so it's time to take care of switching to some other suitable payroll service. In this article you will learn how to do it.

Of course, in order to move to any other task manager, you must first remove their data from Wunderlist. There are two workarounds for this task.

Todoport - a way for ordinary people

The creators of this site as though aware of the insidious plans of Microsoft and the advance made sure that our move took place with maximum comfort. Todoport currently supports Wunderlist, Toodledo, Todoist, Trello, Asana, Google Tasks and allows data to juggle between the managers of the tasks in any combination and direction. So, if Microsoft will decide to buy more that any of the above titles, then you'll know where to go.

To move your data you just select Wunderlist in the left pane, and then your new task manager on the right. You must then log in to each of the service by ticking the items you want and press the blue button Export in the upper left corner.

After a couple of minutes to portray Todoport you a pop-up notification on successful completion of the operation, and you will be able to wipe the sweat from his forehead, relieved sigh and Microsoft show its fig. We were so simple with bare hands will not take!

Export to JSON format - the way of the Jedi

If you're not looking for easy ways in life, you can try to export their data from Wunderlist service in JSON format. I'm sure you know very well what kind of animal, but just in case, let me remind you that the JSON - a text data exchange format based on JavaScript and are usually used with this language (I spied in Wikipedia).

To export the data, you must log into your Wunderlist account (as long as it can be done without a Microsoft account) and go to the settings. There you will find the button "Create backup" I looked around in the screen shot of a beautiful red box. After the first click on the button turns blue and it will change its name to a familiar-writ "Click to download". By clicking again, and the desired file is saved on your hard drive.

Now that you have completed all these steps, I'll tell you what the problem with this method. The fact that the resulting file in JSON format is quite impossible to stick somewhere. That is, none that I know of task management services import in this format does not support. But you can convert it to a CSV (that's a good format converter), Open in the spreadsheet editor and admire the slender columns of data. And who said that to be a Jedi easily?

Now that you know how to get their lists of Wunderlist, it remains only to choose a service that they can trust. In this you can help our review of the best services kind, as well as some articles on Todoist, Trello, Toodledo and Asana.

Read, compare, choose.