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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Jan 04, 2018
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Can you please create a support ticket for this so that we can look into your account and see what the problem is?
Thanks
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Jake
Toodledo Admin
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Jan 04, 2018
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Can you please create a support ticket for this so that we can look into your account and see what the problem is?
Thanks
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Jake
Toodledo Admin
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Jan 04, 2018
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After deleting the note on the iPhone, did you sync the iPhone?
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Jake
Toodledo Admin
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Jan 04, 2018
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You can do this already. We call it the "Date added" and you can sort by it which will display it as a column. Also, if you click on the action icon on the left side of each task, you can see it in that popup.
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Jake
Toodledo Admin
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Jan 03, 2018
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Posted by kuduboet:
Thanks Jake, maybe I missed something but when you say mobile/offline website for iOS, what exactly are you referring to?
Im referring to the entire website, which will now work on a mobile screen just fine. The only exception is that the "Classic Tasks Section" will not work on mobile screens. You'll need to use the "New Tasks Section" in a mobile web browser. The URL for this is https://tasks.toodledo.com and you can set this to be the default in your account settings if you want to go here all the time after login.
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Jake
Toodledo Admin
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Jan 02, 2018
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Jan 02, 2018
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Happy New Years from Toodledo!
In 2016, we re-designed and re-engineered the entire website to work better across all types of screens (desktop and mobile). This was a major undertaking, but with more and more of our visitors using Toodledo on mobile screens, this was vitally important. It turns out that this was too big of a project to fit entirely in 2016, so one of our main goals of 2017 was to finish this project, monitor it, and optimize it. This means that 2017 wasn't as flashy as previous years, but it was all important work.
Here is a short explanation of what we worked on in 2017:
Tasks
The brand new version of the Tasks section was released in March. It was the result of more than a year of effort, starting from scratch and re-engineering the entire thing using the latest technology. It works equally well on desktop and mobile screens and it works offline too! So, for a lot of people, they wont even need to use a app - the website will work just fine. We spent the remainder of the year continuously improving this new section: listening to feedback, making small changes, fixing bugs, optimizing syncing, optimizing loading, testing, etc. We are very happy with the result.
We know that, as a customer, this isn't a super exciting change, because the new Tasks section mostly works the same as the old Tasks section, so it appears that we didn't do much this year. I assure you, that it was a big effort and in the long run, I believe that this was the right move for Toodledo. The old Tasks section was getting a little long in the tooth and hard to maintain with 12 years worth of old code.
Many of you still prefer the old Tasks section because it is familiar. We respect that, which is why we haven't forced the new section on anyone. We are going to continue to improve the new Tasks section with the hopes that more people will switch over to using it full time.
Notes
In 2016 we completely re-engineered the Notes section to work on mobile screens and work offline. Most of this year was spent fixing bugs related to this, and optimizing things to make it work better. We also began work on WYSIWYG or Rich Text editing of notes, but this isn't ready for release yet. It turns out this is really hard to do, which is why you dont see it too often on websites.
iOS app
Im not going to beat around the bush here. The iOS app is in a bad state. The Toodledo iOS app was first written for iOS 2.0 back in 2008 (10 years ago!) and it has been updated continuously for a decade. Apple is very agressive with their iOS updates, often requiring that an app make major changes to work on the new phone or operating system. Over the years, all these changes on top of changes, upgrading from iOS 2 all the way to iOS 10 have caused our app to take on a lot of "technical debt". So in 2016 we threw out the old code and started over with a clean slate. The work on a new version of Toodledo for iOS continues today, albeit slower than we all would like. In the meantime, our new mobile/offline friendly website will work great for anyone who cant handle our aging iOS app.
Android App
With more and more of our users coming from Android, we spent a lot of effort this year on improving our Android app. Here are some highlights:
+ Reassigning tasks to a collaborator is now possible
+ Subtasks are now displayed inside the parent task
+ You can now edit a goal's level and archived goals are now hidden
+ The timer field is now editable and can be started/stopped in the app
+ Added context and tag filters
+ Dividers now show the number of tasks inside, and can be collapsed/expanded
+ Improved how links and HTML formated notes are displayed
+ Improved how tags are edited
+ Added an app shortcut (tap and hold app icon on Android 7.1+)
+ Improved the search feature to search notes as well as task titles
+ Improved syncing and a number of other smaller things
Overall
+ We improved security by forcing SSL encryption for all connections. It is no longer possible to use Toodledo without encryption. This was a big effort that happened behind the scenes, but it was important.
+ Improved importing of tasks from other places
+ Completely redesigned the homepage to be nicer and communicate Toodledo's features better.
+ Added the option to purchase a subscription that automatically renews monthly, for people who dont want to have to remember to manually renew their subscription every year.
Reliability
We were able to maintain an uptime record of greater than 99.9% for the year.
Conclusion
All of the above is just the highlights. We made hundreds of other smaller improvements and fixes across all aspects of our product.
We know that our communication in 2017 was not as prolific as it has been in previous years. This was mainly because most of our work was in behind-the-scenes stuff that had nothing to communicate. We also could have done a better job at communication. However, another thing to keep in mind is that Toodledo has been around for over a decade. It's a pretty mature product by now. The velocity of improvements to Toodledo cannot be expected to remain as it was in its earlier years. Personally, I believe that we made some mistakes with adding some features to Toodledo and ended up with a somewhat complex and cluttered experience. We are trying to be more careful with new functionality that we add to Toodledo in the future. We want to make sure that it really is important functionality that makes most people's experience better, and isn't just adding stuff for the sake of adding stuff.
Our main goal going forwards is to make sure that Toodledo works reliably across as many platforms as possible and continues to be a powerful and useful tool to help people stay organized and productive. We appreciate all the support and suggestions that we have received from everyone. Thanks to everyone for making Toodledo a success.
Happy New Year!
PS. Please use promo code "newyear18" at checkout to get 10% off a subscription or renewal for you and your friends.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Jan 02, 2018
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Just running a little behind with the holidays. Im working on a 2017 year in review post.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Jan 02, 2018
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Currently, the only way to vote on a feature is to comment here in these forums or via a support ticket. We tally all the comments we receive via these methods.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Jan 02, 2018
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Can you please create a support ticket for this so that we can look into your account and see what the problem is?
Thanks
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Jan 02, 2018
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I am sorry, but the functionality you are describing is very complex, and Toodledo can not do this automatically at this time. Your best bet is to use the Batch Edit tool to update the due-date for multiple tasks at once, but its not the one-step process that you want.
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Jake
Toodledo Admin
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 29, 2017
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Are you sorting by "date added" or "date modified"?
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 29, 2017
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I don't think its fair to say that there has been no major new functionality in over a year. We released the new Tasks section this year, which was a major endeavor, that took us many many months. It works great in mobile browsers too, offline even, which was a big deal for us. So if the iOS app isn't working great for you, you might want to give the website a try.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 29, 2017
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There are a number of factors that go into our prioritizing. User feedback is definitely one of the biggest factors. Effort and impact are two addition factors, among others.
Sometimes user requested features do not fit into our system. The classic example of this is drag and drop sorting of tasks. I have commented on this many times before, so I wont go into it again, but that is something that has been on our todo list for 10 years, but we just havent found a way to do it that fits with everything else. Believe me, we have tried.
There are a lot of moving parts to consider. Something that seems simple to someone outside of Toodledo may actually be impossible with our current structure and would take a major rewrite of core systems, which is not something that we are willing to do for a feature that would benefit only a few users. With our limited resources, we try to maximize our effort to benefit the maximum number of users. Unfortunately, this means that some things that would greatly benefit a few users but takes a big effort, just dont get to the top of the list.
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Jake
Toodledo Admin
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 29, 2017
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Not possible yet, but Ill put it on the todo list.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 28, 2017
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Yes. If some other client created the rows, then you would see their "ref" values in rows/get.php. I supposed this should be changed so that only the client that created them could see the ref values. I'll consider this. For now, you will need to add some error checking around the "ref" value from rows/get.php and if its not in a format that you understand or if its not a ref that you created, then assume that its from some other client and add it to your client's data.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 28, 2017
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Thanks for the feedback. We have thousands of tasks on our to-do list with estimated lengths for each one. Adding them all up and we have enough work on our to-do list to keep us busy for 10 years. And we're adding new tasks daily Every few months we go through the list and re-prioritize the tasks based on the current needs. This means that some tasks never make it to the top of the list. So something that was "on the list" 6 years ago may still be on the list, not because we have stopped working on Toodledo, and not because we don't care about Toodledo, but because 6 years worth of other tasks have been higher priority for a variety of reasons.
This message was edited Dec 28, 2017.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 28, 2017
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File attachments are not available in our iOS app, but they are available on the website, which works great in the iOS web browser.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 28, 2017
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We are not currently working on an Android watch app. But it is on our to-do list for the future.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 27, 2017
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Regarding the tasks being hidden 2 weeks into the future. This is definitely related to the filter. Please read up on the links that Purveyor posted. Tasks that start in the future, or are due far enough into the future will be hidden when you have the "future tasks" filter turned on.
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