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DSM	Posted: Feb 23, 2013 From Topic: Appintments don't work right... I'm surprised others haven't chimed in. The alarm relative to start would do the trick, but you'll also have to think about the modifiers. You're close to having both task and calendar mgmt.
DSM	Posted: Feb 18, 2013 From Topic: Appintments don't work right... I've posted about this before, but let me try again. I cannot figure out the proper use-case for appointmentsa in Toodledo. Basically, as I understand it, an appointment is an event with a start and end time (and, by implication, a length). The question is how to represent it in Toodledo. 1. If you represent it with a due date and length (to me, the natural way), the appt will show up on your iCal calendar as starting at due-length. If this acceptable, then, if the length is strange, Toodledo does not give you a natural alarm for the appt (you have to add length to the alarm time you want). If this is not acceptable (you assume the meeting runs from due to due+length), then you iCal calendar has the wrong time for the start of the appt. 2. If you represent it with a start and due, the iCal calendar will look correct, but again there will be no natural alarm for the appt. 3. If you represent it with start, due, and length, then what does it mean if your length is not equal to due-start? 4. If you represent it as start=due, then your alarm will be natural and the iCAL calendar will look right for start times, but not end times. Also, the length will not make sense. Okay, Toodledo, what're we to do?
DSM	Posted: Jan 04, 2013 From Topic: Possible improvements and new features Posted by Purveyor: What else? Better integration with Siri? You can already set things up with Siri such that you can ask Siri to add a reminder to your Toodledo list. Now you need to have: * No duplication without sync. * Be able to ask Siri "What reminders do I have for tomorrow?" * Be able to tell Siri "Cancel that reminder"
DSM	Posted: Dec 20, 2012 From Topic: iCal Start time is Due - Length -- Huh? Whoops -- I said that backwards... All right, let's drop the modifiers. What I'm getting at is that the typical UseCase will be that Start=Due unless Start is provided -- do not use Length in the iCal computation. Re-adding in the modifiers, the modifier meanings (as discussed in your 1st reference) really show that the current computation for iCal doesn't make sense. Taken this way (Start=Due unless Start), then your two references are more harmonious. And alarm time is always Due-Alarm (until start times have an alarm).
DSM	Posted: Dec 20, 2012 From Topic: iCal Start time is Due - Length -- Huh? All right, let's drop the modifiers. What I'm getting at is that the typical UseCase will be that Due=Start unless Start is provided -- do not use Length in the iCal computation. Re-adding in the modifiers, the modifier meanings (as discussed in your 1st reference) really show that the current computation for iCal doesn't make sense. Taken this way (Due=Start unless Start), then your two references are more harmonious.
DSM	Posted: Dec 20, 2012 From Topic: iCal Start time is Due - Length -- Huh? Hmmm. Then, with respect to iCal sync, I can't imagine a true UseCase where Start=Due-Length that would be right. In fact, I think, if Start is not provided, then: 1. Start=End=DueBy 2. Start=DueOn & End=DueOn+Length 3. Start=End=DueAfter If Start is provided, then: 1. Start & End=DueBy 2. Start & End=DueOn (maybe DueOn+Length would also work) 3. Start & End=DueAfter And, in all cases, the alarm time would be computed as Due-Alarm (at least until you add alarms to Start). Can you think of a counter UseCase?
DSM	Posted: Dec 20, 2012 From Topic: iCal Start time is Due - Length -- Huh? Can you elaborate on "Due On" as well? My assumption had been that: * Due By : task can be done at anytime up to the due date. * Due On : task should be done at the due date (ie. appt). * Due After : task can't be done until sometime after due. Given that, I would expect that to control how to handle Length and Alarms within Toodledo. That is, for all three, the alarm time is computed as Due-Alarm, Length is merely a reference to how long it might take to work on the task (which may or may not cover Start to Due period), and Start would be when you start paying attention to the task (and probably doesn't mean much for a DueOn appt.).
DSM	Posted: Dec 20, 2012 From Topic: Connection to forum in iPhone App It would be nice if the iPhone Toodledo App had a connection to the Toodledo Forums. Would it be possible to hook the forum into the TapATalk network?
DSM	Posted: Dec 20, 2012 From Topic: iCal Start time is Due - Length -- Huh? Then what is the meaning of Alarm? What you suggest is that, for appointments (that might go on a calendar), I should enter Start/Due or Start/Length to have it show up correctly on the calendar. However, Alarm is attached to Due and not Start which is not what you want for an appointment (you want to be warned before it starts and not when nearly done). Can you explain more?
DSM	Posted: Dec 19, 2012 From Topic: iCal Start time is Due - Length -- Huh? There is definitely some confusion here about the use of Due On vs. Start Date. Why would you set a Start Date for a Task that is Due On a particular date/time? I guess the other confusion is the proper way of representing an Appointment (as opposed to a Task) in Toodledo. I had been representing them as a Task that was Due On a date/time that had a length of some time. My assumption was that Due On would be when the appointment began and Length would be how long the appointment would last. If I must use Start/End Date to represent the length of time for the appointment, then what's the use of Length?
DSM	Posted: Dec 15, 2012 From Topic: Task Chains Has any consideration been given to "task chains"?? That is the ability to designate a task as following another task.
DSM	Posted: Dec 15, 2012 From Topic: TapATalk Has Toodledo considered making this forum available on the TapATalk network so that we can respond to it from my iPhone?
DSM	Posted: Dec 15, 2012 From Topic: Siri & Reminders One other ability I have not seen requested is that you can ask Siri to tell you your reminders for a particular date. If you sync reminders into Toodledo and then have the reminders removed (to prevent duplicates), then the Siri feature will not be very useful (because the Reminders list will be empty). Definitely something to work on with Apple.
DSM	Posted: Dec 15, 2012 From Topic: iCal Start time is Due - Length -- Huh? I have an iPhone and tried exporting my tasks to iCal so that my iPhone calendar could subscribe to them. When I looked at my iPhone calendar, I could see that the iCal calendar was subscribed and my tasks were showing up on the calendar. However, it appeared that the Start time for the task was being computed as Due - Length which didn't make sense (particularly for Due On tasks). Am I making sense? Is there a bug here?
DSM	Posted: Oct 31, 2012 From Topic: Reading the forums on iPad ? Is there an App that would be good for reading/replying to the Toodledo forums? TapATalk?
DSM	Posted: Oct 31, 2012 From Topic: Siri and Toodledo The problem with the reminder API is that, once the reminders are sucked into Toodledo and deleted from the Reminders list, you can no longer ask Siri to "show me tomorrow's reminders" while you're in the car. Since Toodledo doesn't update Reminders, not deleting the reminder just gets confusing. Is the reminder API one way? Could you mark a new task in Toodledo as connected to a reminder so that updates in either will update both?
DSM	Posted: Sep 07, 2012 From Topic: Don't understand Toodledo site interface Oh! Now I see what's happening. My eyes must be getting old. I didn't see the left menu change when I clicked on (say) Folders -- I was concentrating on the central tasks list. Now that I see the change, I understand what's going on. I was wrong about the hotlist as well. The change on the screen was so close to filling the screen, that I thought there were more items on the next page -- there were not. Thanks -- now the website is much more usable for me.
DSM	Posted: Sep 07, 2012 From Topic: Don't understand Toodledo site interface For instance, clicking on the left toolbar items (Hot List, All Tasks, etc.) doesn't seem to change anything in the list. The Hot List item says that there are 6 items in the Hot List, but clicking on it shows much more than 6. What am I missing??
DSM	Posted: Sep 07, 2012 From Topic: Don't understand Toodledo site interface I don't understand how to use the Toodledo interface on the Toodledo web-page. The interface doesn't seem to match the interface in the Toodledo iPhone App, so I'm confused how to use it. How do I go to a particular Folder (Context, Tag, DueDate, etc.) and see the list of tasks in the Folder (etc.)? Give me a step by step...
DSM	Posted: Jun 17, 2011 From Topic: How to get list of Folders & Contexts? I know that you can go to the "Folders" or "Contexts" menu items in the left bar to see the list of each and perhaps change it, but how can I capture that list for the future (like export to XML)? I tried clipping it using Evernote, but Evernote seems to be unable to capture the text boxes where the information is. Any other suggestions?

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