Astrid Shuts Down

Astrid is a program that maintains a to do list for your smartphone, tablet, and computer. I heard recently that Yahoo purchased Astrid. There were rumours floating around that Yahoo plans to kill off Astrid. I have recently received an email confirming this rumour (see below). Why in the world Yahoo wants to kill off something it purchased it beyond my understanding. Nevertheless, I found that as a to do list maintainer, Astrid was not helping much with my productivity. I simply had too much to do, and constant reminders by Astrid on my phone on what I needed to do next become so annoying that I ended up ignoring them. I will use Google Tasks for now.