Todoist. My wife and I can share lists, assign tasks, track completion, all sorts of stuff. It’s not perfect, but I’m really mostly happy with it.
Also, setting up an iCloud family. Most of the sharing stuff we can do can be done without being in a family unit, but it makes it that much easier since it makes assumptions about who I wish to share with. From there, native Notes, Calendar, all that stuff has made our life so much easier.
Agree with 1Password family. Being able to send direct links and not passwords is amazing.
Interestingly, a theme here is that these tools allow me to have work stuff and personal stuff alongside each other, but still somewhat isolated. I think that’s more than a coincidence.
1Password family has been hard to get everyone on… one or two people yes, but not the entire family.
YouTube Premium is probably the only thing everyone in the family uses significantly and frequently… but mostly because they don’t notice it. Netflix, Disney+ maybe go without saying. Alexa/Google/HomePods too, mostly for music playback. Spotify Premium has excellent family features also.
Background but storage from Google One, Apple and Microsoft Office are also frequently used and relied on.
For me the hardest part is actually telling family what they could have access to - I wish there was something like https://duo.com/assets/img/leadin-images/sso_leadin_img.jpg but included all the content, apps and subscriptions we share, regardless of service provider. Whatever it is, it has to have tight integration with mobile and desktop computers so I and others can push notifications like, “Amy just signed up for NYTimes, add a shortcut and saved password?” Or a banner appears or customized Kagi results that could say, “Listen on Spotify,” if that’s what we have signed up for would be nice.
I’m thinking it might work like Apple’s notifications for health and/or activity sharing, where you get to see what others do, but instead you get to see what you have access to via the family, etc.
I tried setting up enterprise style accounts and domains and even a Google Site for this purpose and it went nowhere. Everyone already has logins and identities and half the problem is no one wants to visit “yet another website” just to find out what’s new. I haven’t tried making an app with push notifications and installing it on everyone’s devices with a web browser extension, but I also have to admit, I’m tempted to develop such a thing. Might also be useful for very small startups, etc.
1Password family has been a game changer for me. Just for sharing secure data with my partner who used to use the same 6 letter password on every site, life changing. It’s also been a great tool to teach my teenage kids good security habits while also building trust. It also sparks conversations when a website inevitably gets compromised and why it’s important to have unique passwords per site and they’ve actually been pretty good about using it too.
Oh I should add that iMessage, if you can get the whole family on it, is killer for maintaining group chats. Really though, just having a group chat with the entire family on it is great. Especially if the app has Find My features where you can see where folks are. For the youngest tho, we use Facebook Messenger for Kids on Amazon fire tablets if they want to join in on video calls etc. Sadly there isn’t an all-in-one service that is also very child-friendly (and Fire tablet compatible to be kid proof)
I've been Todoist user for many years, premium user as of this year. As well as reminders, tasks, and appointments, I use it to quickly take notes, record thoughts, etc.
It's been great until this week when I hit their ridiculously low limit: 300. That's not many tasks/notes, especially as each sub task is counted individually too.
Why is it so low? I'm a paying user. I'm probably burdening their servers with all of 10kB of text! It's such a gut punch, it makes me regret paying for it a little, just because of how petty and hostile it comes across and because of how needlessly disruptive it is to my usage.
If anyone from Todoist happens to see this, please bump that up by an order of magnitude or two. For premium users, at least. It's awful. It breaks your product for me.
I haven’t got my projects fully populated yet but 300 is definitely possible for some, eventually.
When I look at the enumerated limits I suspect a code/database issue rather than bean-counter logic… surely you can pack a whole lot of text into your cloud sync for 5 USD per month less Apple tax?
If you have 300+ tasks / notes, I’d look at separating the notes out… I expect there are better note oriented apps.
I used to use todoist but now use TickTick- similar but with some extra features. The non-premium is awful though, you have to sign up for a proper workable product (it is cheaper than todoist)
I really REALLY wish TickTick had a two-way calendar sync with anything. That's the one thing keeping me with Todoist. I think they were talking about implementing it eventually. Did this ever come to fruition?
Also, setting up an iCloud family. Most of the sharing stuff we can do can be done without being in a family unit, but it makes it that much easier since it makes assumptions about who I wish to share with. From there, native Notes, Calendar, all that stuff has made our life so much easier.
Agree with 1Password family. Being able to send direct links and not passwords is amazing.
Interestingly, a theme here is that these tools allow me to have work stuff and personal stuff alongside each other, but still somewhat isolated. I think that’s more than a coincidence.