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marphod |
Posted Nov 04, 2011 in: Todo from Appigo - very satisfied
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I've been a long time Appigo ToDo user; I'm now convinced I need to get a new application.
I don't know if it is just me, or because I've an older iPod Touch, by the Sync from my iPod to ToodleDo is horribly broken. It _never_ finishes, and things get lost in the sync. Also, the UI now has a huge delay between any interactions (e.g. select a task, wait ten seconds before it loads. Mark several tasks as done, wait ten seconds between tasks to get marked, etc.). I've blown away my local data on the iPod, and set retention data to minimal, without any affect. I really need a new app. |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 27, 2010 in: Subfolders... C'mon people! Add this feature!!
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No, I actually meant subfolders.
If the developers decide never to implement them, that's their choice. it is, IMO, an unfortunate choice, especially if there are that many users who ask for it (as implied above). |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 27, 2010 in: Errors in syncing to google calender
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Is there a known solution other than changing my UID, and creating a new calender?
I tried unsubscribing and resubscribing. That didn't work. |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 27, 2010 in: Comparison of iPhone / iPad ToodleDo Apps
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Posted by Claudio:
Priorities are the same as Web app (Top, High, Medium, Low, Negative), compared to High, Med, Low in Todo. To be fair, Todo has High, Med, Low, and None. Similar idea to negative, but not the same. |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 26, 2010 in: Comparison of iPhone / iPad ToodleDo Apps
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Posted by PeterW:
You *can* sort arbitrarily in Appigo Todo. Within any list, tap the button just to the right of the list name at the top. The icon is three horizontal bars. This will make all list items have the same icon on the right hand side. Simply drag the task using this icon and drop it where you like. That's not really a sort. Ignoring a technical definition of what is a sort and what isn't, I want the ability to "sort by due date, context, then priority" , and have the ordering keep up when I add a new task, rather than needing to re-order. |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 26, 2010 in: Subfolders... C'mon people! Add this feature!!
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Posted by Gordon:
15$ is cheap (PER YEAR), I pay it thankfully. Well, yes. If I were employed, 15$ would be cheap. On the other hand, even if I had a paid account, I still wouldn't have sub-folders. I'm not sure what your point is. |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 26, 2010 in: Comparison of iPhone / iPad ToodleDo Apps
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I use Appigo's Todo application. Appigo says it works on the iPad, and I can't imagine why it wouldn't -- they may be working on an iPad specific version, but I have no information on that.
I bought it, as I mis-understood the documentation and thought it would work with the free version of RTM. I was wrong. I never used the Toodledo app, so I can't really compare. Deficiencies: It does not have the ability to specify an arbitrary sort order. Sort is always descending, and you can choose between "alphabetical", "priority, due date," and "due date, priority". It does not have the "importance" concept. It doesn't have every field that toodledo does -- it does not have start time/date, a timer, length, or goal. It doesn't have custom alarms, and the timing options for alarms are somewhat restrictive. It doesn't sync defaults. It doesn't do sub-folders (but neither does Toodledo). Adds above Toodledo: It can do subtasks by default, without a pro account. I'm not sure how well Toodledo and todo play together when using this. It can do checklists (tasks with specific sub-items; good for like a shopping list where sub-tasks might do, but are overkill). It has, IMO, a much cleaner interface (compared to the Toodledo website). |
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marphod |
It might be nice to have an 'ascending' or 'descending' option for every sort field.
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marphod |
Posted Apr 26, 2010 in: Times out by one hour on iPhone app
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Out of curiosity, are all of you with this issue in Europe? If so, what time zone is your iPod set to?
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marphod |
Posted Apr 26, 2010 in: Subfolders... C'mon people! Add this feature!!
Score: 2
I would like this, as well.
You can kind-of fake it with stupid tag tricks, but native support would be very nice. |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 26, 2010 in: Adding a task by forwarding an email to Toodledo email address
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I don't use Lotus Notes, so this is just a guess. Does Lotus Notes attempt to send the message as rich text (formatting, bold/italics, font sizes, or similar) or is it just plain text?
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marphod |
I am using FireFox 3.6.3 on Windows XP 64 bit SP 2 (Yes, XP 64 bit; I am in fact a masochist. For what it is worth, SP 2 is the latest SP for XP64; it is contemporary with XPSP3).
I have a number of default settings (due date, due time, folder, priority). When I hit 'add task' all are set correctly, except for priority. Whereas my default priority is '1', it is set to '-1'. Are there any other data elements I can get for you to help track this down? |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 25, 2010 in: Where is the correct place to make suggestions?
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Posted by Jon_R:
I do use gmail and think that the implementation they use to select multiple emails is perfect. I just do not think that the UI in Toodledo would make sense with two select boxes - one to complete a task and one for multi-select. What would it be - select box to mark a task done -> select box to multi-select -> text? They don't need to be next to each other; in fact, I'd probably put the select at the start of the line, and the complete mark at the end. Even if I didn't, I wouldn't make the complete mark a checkbox. Most of my concepts are based on images (a red x for not done, green check for done, or unhappy face for incomplete, happy for complete. Or, simply text). One advantage of not having a simple selected or unselected box means that they could add an optional 'in progress' state. I guess I look at a task manager and a calendar as two separate things, so two different tools needed. Scheduling time for a calendar appointment and what to do as a task in a task manager. It may or may not be GTD (I've not read the book), but for me it all comes down to not wanting to use multiple time management tools. Calender items and Tasks have mostly the same data - names, notes, times, alarms, context/tags/folders/goals[1], priorities, repetitions, etc. (There are other items that could be included, such as locations and other involved people, but those aren't (yet) added to Toodledo, other than playing with tags.) Timer is less relevant for meetings/events/appointments than tasks, but could be useful for tracking specific billable hours, or seeing if meetings run long or short. Of the Toodledo fields, only status doesn't apply to meetings. A calender might want a more specific Location and Other People fields, but I've always been able to manage with tags and notes. [1] To me, these are all essentially the same thing. The only advantage folders (usually) have over tags is hierarchy (but that doesn't exist here, and you can fake it with complex tag names). Goals have the dependency tree, which tags don't (again, can fake it). Contexts, as far as I can tell, don't have any advantage over tags, other than an automatic UI filter. |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 25, 2010 in: Where is the correct place to make suggestions?
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Background -- While it isn't my current profession, I have rather extensive experience in commercial UIs. I'm not speaking without basis.
Posted by Jon_R: {quote] This to me would be a pain in the butt to deal with. Anytime I hovered over a task get a full list to deal with? No thanks. And adding in a multi select would just clutter up main view - search/multi-edit is perfect for this. [/quote] Uh, why are you hovering over tasks in general? There's a delay to the pop-up, so moving your pointer over the task shouldn't cause the hover to happen. This is actually a fairly standard UI concept for context-specific items. Alternatively, with a click-hold or right click to open (although, the later would require flash or the like). [quote] To me this currently makes perfect sense and does not remind me of a select box. [/quote] You don't use gmail, do you? Select box, star, text. For them, it is select box, star, and then the email content. For remember the milk? Select box, task. For facebook sends, select box, name. The box is a little larger than a default web select box, and green. That's not enough of a UI clue that it has COMPLETELY DIFFERENT behavior. It would be infinitely better if used a different image. [quote[ As I just mentioned a select box for multi-select would clutter things up even more. It is great being able to just check things off - would be a step back to have a select box and then have to check another button to "complete" a task. [/quote] I never suggested removing the completion mark. I love how that works, and it is significantly better than RTM check then complete button. [quote] Calendar appointment instead of task? [/quote] Yes, exactly. If your suggestion is to use another tool to schedule my time, that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid doing. I am trying to use a single tool to schedule my time. Making me use a second tool means I'll skip on TOodledo and move on to a tool that actually works. [quote] Should not be a technical reason - assuming here the line has to be drawn somewhere for free vs. paid accounts and Toodledo choose 3 sort fields. Need more - upgrade to a Pro account. [/quote] Sure, there need to be incentives to go to a pro account. They include filespace, scheduler, sub-tasks, and a whole variety of value-adds. This is basic functionality. [quote] Have to promote Pro accounts somehow. Not as obtrusive as the milk service though with their upgrade to pro on every page. [/quote] Until you pointed it out, and after using RTM for over 18 months, I never really noticed that line at the bottom of the page. It is unobtrusive, I'll accept that. It just isn't a clean UI. [quote] It is impossible to meet everyone's feature requests.[/quote] There is finite time, and I realize they can't meet all my requests. On the other hand, it isn't going to stop me from asking, and making suggestions based on my experience at several companies and lots of UI work. |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 25, 2010 in: Where is the correct place to make suggestions?
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Repeating events that I've synced to google Calender are not marked as/considered repeating events, so the goggle labs "Fade repeating events" gadget doesn't fade them.
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marphod |
Posted Apr 23, 2010 in: Where is the correct place to make suggestions?
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Others:
A Due date of "Due After" or "Due On" with a time length should sync to calenders with the due time being the start time of the event (appointment), with the specified length, not the terminal time with the length before it. (please, please, please, dear gods, please. This is making integration with a calender useless for me.) I'd love it if there were push/auto-reloads to the web client. (So, if I complete something using an "iPhone" (iPodTouch, in my case) client, or another machine, that it is reflected without me needing to hit reload.) I'd be nice to separate the 3 different setting groups into different pages. I'd be really happy if you had a DD-Mon-YYYY date format. (4 Apr 2010). Why does my due dates change color, but not my start dates? |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 23, 2010 in: Errors in syncing to google calender
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I've got a google calender subscribed to the live update.
Yesterday, as mentioned in a different thread, I updated all of my start/due times for appointments, so they should appear correctly on the calender (rather than terminating at the time I want them to start). However, after google calender synced last night (other new appointments appeared), the times were not updated for any existing task. I don't know if this is an issue with the publication or the subscription, or both. Any ideas? |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 23, 2010 in: Times out by one hour on iPhone app
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After checking my iPod, you appear to be correct, at least from a user interface.
I have no idea how things like that are handled programatically., though. |
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marphod |
Posted Apr 22, 2010 in: Search in task and note at the same time
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In fact, that's what I assumed "quicksearch" did, rather than just in name.
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marphod |
Posted Apr 22, 2010 in: Where is the correct place to make suggestions?
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Cool.
I'd like a check box that allows me to select several tasks at once, without doing the search/multi-edit trick. I'd like a hover-over option to edit a task, that gives me all the options on the task, not just the ones visible at my current settings. Or, at least, the same form as you get when you 'add' a task. Also, the hover-over would be nice to work anywhere over a task/todo, rather than just on the complete button. I'd love if the check-to-complete box didn't look so much like a select box (which is how I think multi-edit is going to work, even if it isn't). I'd like the ability to say "this is an appointment/meeting" and have the start time and length imply a due time. And a reminder before the start time, not the due time. On the same vein, I'd like to specify if the alarm/reminder should be relative to the start time or the end time. As mentioned in another thread, I'd like to see the ability to tell Toodledo what is more important to me, Due date, priority or starred. I'd love to see a technical explanation why sort on 3 fields is pay-only, and on arbitrary number isn't available -- it is all in the SQL query, after all and you're not getting back that many lines. I'd like my goals to be able to contribute to other goals in the same time frame. And contribute to multiple other goals. (e.g. My lifelong 'happiness' is influenced by my long term 'wedding' and 'having kids'. But 'having kids' is also dependent on my 'wedding'.) I'd like the time parser to understand "midnight" and "noon". I'd also like the parser to understand "tomorrow at 5pm" means tomorrow in date and 5pm in time. (RTM spoiled me on this.) I'd love to see the column headings as 'floating', remaining at the top of the page, even when I scroll down. (that might be doable with a userstyle.) The sidebar, too. And the Add a Task button. If I don't have a pro account, I'd rather not be teased by the options in the sidebar. Speaking of why, why is "Forums" in the same groups as the task/todo viewers -- it should be its own grouping. That "Tools & Services" is a single link, but "folders & contexts" has 2 links is a non-parallel UI design, and should be discouraged. I'd like to be able to set a default view (Importance, for me) That's a start. |