[tbbfjotllf]

Sounds to me like you need something simple and quick. If the current system works for you I would suggest to keep using it. If you ever feel like you need something better I would recommend trying microsoft todo or google tasks. Google Tasks syncs with your google calendar so it's a bit more powerful. Apart from them both a pretty simple. If you are looking for something even simpler take a look at google keep. This is what I use personally.

[derbOac]

I'm sympathetic to the text file, but for me the problem comes when you have todo lists that you are sharing with someone else, like a spouse. Then you have/want to share and edit them collaboratively.

Simple enough, there's ways to do that, but by the time you set that up to work across multiple devices of your own and someone else's, it's simpler from a UX perspective to just use an app dedicated to that task. I suppose we could use a Google doc or something but there's Keep.

I'd be interested in trying something else — I have tried other things — but keep going back to Google Keep.

[krwang4094]

Especially for Android users, Google Tasks is dead simple to use and works seamlessly with voice prompting. The less I have to manually write or type out my reminders, the better.

[tbbfjotllf]

My oldest todo app that I can think of was just a microsoft sticky note[1] on my desktop. It always stayed on my desktop. It lacked sync between other devices so that sucked but my pc was the only device I had at that time so it worked for me. After I got a phone; google keep has kept me company. It's dead simple, cross platform, and gets work done. The only fault? It's by google, and they have a long history of killing products.

[1] https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nblggh4qghw