{"id":5597,"date":"2025-01-09T11:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2025-01-09T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:29:11","slug":"two-new-videos-added-to-myn-to-do-video-course-creating-to-do-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/two-new-videos-added-to-myn-to-do-video-course-creating-to-do-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Videos added to MYN To Do Video Course: Creating To Do Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ve just added two new videos to the MYN To Do video course<\/a>: Videos L-5 and L-6. These brand new and advanced videos show how to convert a To Do Web page into a standalone app. Doing this is optional, but it provides a wide range of task management improvements, and it makes your MYN To Do usage even easier. Below is a standalone To Do app, created from the web version of To Do, on Windows. Notice it looks like a To Do web page, but it’s really a standalone app window:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You might wonder, aren\u2019t there good standalone apps already created by Microsoft for the Windows and the Mac platforms? Why not use those instead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n


Better than Microsoft’s Desktop Apps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are, and I discuss them in videos B-2 and L-1 in the course.
However, after trying the Windows (and Mac) desktop apps, I personally gave up on them because they lack features I need. The main missing feature is they don\u2019t enable task categories<\/em>, and that\u2019s a feature I use a lot. Because of that, and for other reasons, I use the web version of To Do in my day-to-day work, and not the Microsoft provided apps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there are disadvantages to using the web version of To Do as a web page. For example, I am constantly losing track of the Chrome or Edge browser tab where I have launched the To Do web page. Also, I cannot use it if there is no internet. And there are other issues.
So, that\u2019s why I was happy to discover the way to convert the web version of To Do into a standalone app version of To Do. And I now use that created app for nearly all my To Do task management. It\u2019s essentially the To Do website but re-packaged nicely as an app. It\u2019s free to create and very effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Called a Progressive Web App<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A web page converted into an app is something nearly all browsers enable these days. It\u2019s called a Progressive Web App, or PWA. You can set one up in a minute or two for any web page. Use it with To Do web, and you\u2019ll instantly see the huge advantages that it offers.\u00a0
They are a bit tricky to create, and these two new videos show how. Again, they are videos L-5 and L-6 and are located down at the bottom of the paid video list, and available to all paid course subscribers. Video L-5 describes how PWAs work and why you might want to use one. The second video, L-6, shows detailed steps on how to\u00a0create<\/em>\u00a0them. Watch these videos and within a short while you\u2019ll be enjoying the benefits of a PWA To Do app and wondering how you ever lived without one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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