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# Google Gemini: Effortless Product Comparisons!
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/productivity-ping-139/
- Published: 2024-01-05T01:00:59.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T12:56:57.000Z
- Description: #139
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: #newsletter, Gemini

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A few weeks ago a senior manager asked for a to-do app recommendation (for personal use). Regular readers will know I prefer the free version of Todoist but I didn’t want to share a recommendation without comparing it thoroughly with other options.

Enter Google Bard.

## Effortless comparisons

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/01/image-5.png)

Instead of Googling “popular todo apps” and then manually making a note of their features, I used Google Bard to create a comprehensive table that highlights the pros and cons of each app, including Todoist, side by side.

After exporting the table from Bard directly into Google Sheets, I spent \~2 minutes on formatting before sharing my findings with the senior manager (with my top 2 recommendations highlighted).

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/01/image-6.png)

## 📸 Instructions

First, I asked for a list of Todoist’s closest competitors:

Who are Todoist's top competitors? 

Then I asked for a table comparing Todoist to specific ones I have chosen:

Create a table comparing Todoist with TickTick, Any.do, Microsoft To-Do, Remember the Milk, and Google Keep 

You technically can prompt Bard with something like “Create a table comparing Todoist with its closest competitors” but I wanted slightly more manual control (e.g. I didn’t want to include Evernote or Trello in the table for example).

💡

****Pro tip:** [Here’s a link](https://g.co/bard/share/ae8e0d35b440?ref=jeffsu.org) to my entire chat with Google Bard

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