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Peter Scott	Posted: Dec 09, 2012 From Topic: Color Coding I agree with ChristianDiscer's suggestion. The most flexible realization of this I can think of is to add an option to saved searches to display the results in a certain color. Then whenever tasks are being displayed, test each of them against all saved searches that set that option and display in the color of the first one that matches.
Peter Scott	Posted: Nov 02, 2012 From Topic: Search not available in Slim and iPhone App My entire GTD process is built around 9 custom saved searches. I spend 98% of my time on the search page. Saved searches for the iphone is by far the most important thing on my wish list.
Peter Scott	Posted: Sep 20, 2012 From Topic: Print graph Could your fancy drawing techniques have the option to display just the chart in a separate window?
Peter Scott	Posted: Sep 20, 2012 From Topic: Print graph I just discovered a thread on this but it's a couple of years old and locked. I want to raise the issue again. I want to print the line chart every day as an incentive and while the app is extremely cool, printing it is not fast. It seems I'd have to capture the chart area with SnagIt. Productivity depends on a low bar to jump over. I'd prefer something where I just hit Ctrl-P. Then I could automate that too. Printing the web page with all the stuff around the chart isn't so helpful.
Peter Scott	Posted: Jul 04, 2012 From Topic: Collaboration Improvements Awesome update. I can guess at how much work it must have been. Thank you! Has the API changed any for this?
Peter Scott	Posted: Jan 05, 2012 From Topic: Suggestion: Checksum task corpus I'm putting this here rather than in a ticket because I want to get reactions from others to see if it's a good idea. The incremental update model for local caches makes me nervous. If a client gets out of sync for any reason it will forever remain out of sync. I am thinking that one way out of this would be to supply a checksum function in the API: Return a checksum of all tasks on the server. Then compare it with a checksum of all tasks in the local cache. If they don't match after a sync then they're out of sync and the client knows it should wipe its cache and download everything. Checksum would have to be done on the concatenation of all fields and notes in each task. Would require careful specification. Comments?
Peter Scott	Posted: Nov 08, 2011 From Topic: Please vote on this feature (Saved Views Update) I was just about to post my own feature request ticket for this when I saw this thread get bumped. I was sure that sorting and filtering were on a per-search basis and was extremely disappointed to find they were global. Customizing searches with particular sorting and filtering options is a must. Example: I have one search that shows next actions, it excludes deferred tasks. I have another that shows things I am waiting for, it is on status = Waiting\|Delegated. Can't switch between those the way things are.
Peter Scott	Posted: Nov 08, 2011 From Topic: Reassign? Is there a way in the API to reassign a task? And to list the possible delegation targets of the user? If not, please consider this a feature request. Keep up the good work.
Peter Scott	Posted: Nov 08, 2011 From Topic: Several hours of work lost - what rolled back changes? Thanks for the sync page URL. There was a lot of entries from Toodle Tasks HD. I suspect that was the culprit. I have expunged it from my Touchpad. Expensive lesson...
Peter Scott	Posted: Nov 07, 2011 From Topic: Several hours of work lost - what rolled back changes? FWIW, I notice that the server seems to take some time to respond to changes. I made a change at 18:16 through the web browser. I queried the server through the API at 18:30 and it says last task edit 18:15, and the task I just changed shows as the old version. I wait a minute, query again, it says last task edit 18:16 and the task is now the way I edited it. So not completely synchronous. I wait a few more minutes to 18:25 and now it says last edit 18:22, caught up.
Peter Scott	Posted: Nov 07, 2011 From Topic: Several hours of work lost - what rolled back changes? Here's an even better data point... one of my edits was to remove the tag 'personal' from every task. Now when I pull up the tag page on the web, 'personal' is not in the list of tags in the left bar. However, in the list of tasks in the main page, many of the tasks still show the 'personal' tag. This is on a different machine from the one I was using to make the edits. Refreshing the page makes no difference. So it's idea of the list of possible tags reflects the situation after I made the edits, but the list of tasks themselves reflects the situation after something rolled the tasks back. Okay, I don't need to air this in public any more. I'll copy it all to a support ticket tomorrow but I'd just reopened one on API documentation today so can't do so before then. I just wanted to see if anyone aside from Toodledo support staff had any ideas. This message was edited Nov 07, 2011.
Peter Scott	Posted: Nov 07, 2011 From Topic: Added by --- is what field? I notice when I hover over one of the icons on the web interface that it tells me "Added on date by ___" where it may say "iPhone" or "Email" or something else. What field in the tasks API stores that identity?
Peter Scott	Posted: Nov 07, 2011 From Topic: Several hours of work lost - what rolled back changes? Here's a nice data point. I picked one of the tasks that was still showing as the way I had changed it on my laptop. I added a tag to it to trigger a change. I refreshed my view of the task on another machine. It showed the tag change to that task but still had the old values of all the other attributes, like title. So the browser is saying "Change tags for task ID 12345 to foo,bar" and it's doing that on the server but the title and everything else is still in the inconsistent state where it was rolled back somehow. It doesn't look like I'm going to get all these changes back unless I make changes on the laptop to every single field that was edited... in 154 tasks. Argh. This message was edited Nov 07, 2011.
Peter Scott	Posted: Nov 07, 2011 From Topic: Several hours of work lost - what rolled back changes? Okay, I'm honked off here after losing several hours of work, and even if it's somehow my fault I certainly want to find out why and how to stop it. This has happened more than once in the last couple of days. I'm in the process of completely revamping my GTD model and changing many attributes of many tasks. I've been editing about 1000 tasks and changing titles, tags, status, context, folder, dates. Something has been changing them back. I don't know what, but I did extract irrefutable proof. And this scenario didn't even involve multiple laptops. I'm using a laptop (OSX/Safari) and going in via the web site, showing all tasks and multiline view for each. I edited all of them in some way or another. Because of observing this stealth reverting of tasks earlier (see my question "How is sync done from web browser?") I decided to observe what was happening independently. I used the Perl module App::Toodledo (which I wrote, so I know how it works and have just updated it for API 2) and ran it in no local caching mode so it was showing me what was on the server for sure. I ran a search (through the API) once to show a certain set of tasks. I dumped out all their attributes. I edited them through the web interface. I ran the search again and saw that my changes were reflected in the data from the server. I closed up the laptop and charged it, came back 4 hours later. I ran the same API search and the tasks were back where they were before the change! Titles, attributes, everything. I still have the screen on the laptop showing the edits I had made so I am not hallucinating. I am sure as soon as I navigate off that page I will lose them. I brought the site up from a different machine and I see the tasks in their pre-edit state, agreeing with the API search. Something changed those tasks back in those 4 hours. What??? I noticed when I reopened the laptop that I got a beach ball on the Toodledo page for several minutes, FWIW. I don't see how that could matter. I have Toodledo apps elsewhere. I have the Toodledo app on the iPhone which was powered on but not in use. I have Toodle Tasks HD and also Done! on the HP Touchpad, which was also powered on but not in use. The most likely scenario I can think of is that some kind of bug in either of the Touchpad apps undid my changes. I still find that really unlikely but I have no better idea so I removed both of them. The previous incident I was referring to was when I was switching between two Mac laptops as each's battery ran out, however in this case there was only one laptop in use. Notice the sentence in bold above: the edits I made were showing on the server right afterwards. Obviously I am going to experiment now and see if I can get my module to spit out the identity and timestamp of anything making a change, but you get that I am ticked off after wasting thousands of keyclicks and mouse presses. If I had tried editing on the Touchpad at the same time I would have more reason to blame myself but under the circumstances I described someone somewhere has a bug. I don't know if there's a way of getting my laptop to flush its screen which still shows the edited tasks back to the server but I'm going to try. This message was edited Nov 07, 2011.
Peter Scott	Posted: Nov 07, 2011 From Topic: How is sync done from web browser? I'm starting a separate thread on this because of the nature of the problem and more recent incidents. Look for one titled "Several hours of work lost - what rolled back changes?"
Peter Scott	Posted: Nov 07, 2011 From Topic: How is sync done from web browser? How is synchronization managed from the web browser (toodledo.com web site)? I have been editing hundreds of tasks (nearly a thousand) in the last 2 days from two different laptops, changing status, title, context, folder, due dates and tags, and now I am going back through them with different types of searches I am finding many (at least several dozen) where some or all of the changes did not stick. I do not know whether I am looking at data that reflects what is on the server or bad caching on the browser.
Peter Scott	Posted: Oct 30, 2011 From Topic: App::Toodledo updated for API 2 on CPAN Perl Toodledoers: I have updated App::Toodledo on CPAN for API version 2. This version is NOT backwards compatible with the previous module. There is virtually nothing in common between the two interfaces. This one is a lot better :-) Toodledo admins, would you please update any pages of API bindings as necessary. Version-independent link to documentation: http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Toodledo/lib/App/Toodledo.pm . Note: Task caching is primitive at best. Bugs likely abound. But maintenance should be much easier. This message was edited Oct 30, 2011.
Peter Scott	Posted: Oct 26, 2011 From Topic: Number of task limit I just discovered this limit myself when reading the API error codes. I am at 4000 tasks myself and expect to hit the limit within 2 years. I would like to see the limit raised for Pro Plus subscribers.
Peter Scott	Posted: Oct 25, 2011 From Topic: Task searching severely limited I am finally getting around to rewriting the Perl CPAN Toodledo module for API 2.0, and I am perturbed by the limited options for task searching. Am I missing something, or is the interface for selecting tasks considerably less capable than the V1.0 API? It appears optimized only for task synchronization. For instance, where in 1.0 I could search for tasks due in a date range, in 2.0 I have to iterate through all tasks. And for performance, I would have to select only the due date field, pick out the id of the matching tasks, then requery for those IDs and the full set of fields that I wanted. That doesn't seem efficient or easy. I have ~4000 uncompleted tasks of my own, for instance, and iterating through all of them to find the three that have the "garden" tag seems incredibly wasteful. How do people do this? Is there some method aside from 'get' that does what the 1.0 getTasks method did? This message was edited Oct 25, 2011.
Peter Scott	Posted: Oct 03, 2011 From Topic: How to change context when sorting by context? Doh! Thank you, I had blinders on when I was hunting in the multiline view...

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