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Why does every damn developer have to make a todo list application nowadays?

The "hot app" lately has been these supposed productivity apps, e.g. Wunderlist, Evernote, Clear, Document Cloud, kippt, ...

It's getting a little tiring :(

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Document Cloud doesn't strike me as a "productivity app", at least not in the same vein as Evernote and Wunderlist (not familiar with Clear or kippt). As far as I know, it doesn't incorporate "to do" functionality at all. It's targeted at journalists and (presumably) provides real value by helping analyze, research and annotate supporting documents.

I stand corrected, what they're doing is pretty cool. I was under the impression that it was just an application to save highlighted passages from articles but after poking around it's obvious that it's much more.

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