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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 22, 2010
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Happy Holidays!
2010 was another busy and challenging year for Toodledo. This year, we doubled the number of people using our services! Welcome to all the new users!
As a result of this growth, we spent a lot of the year working on our infrastructure and making sure that it scales smoothly. We made a lot of improvements, and even added 3 new servers to help spread out the load and improve our reliability. We are happy to report that we were able to achieve 99.99% uptime for the year. This means that Toodledo was offline for less than 1 hour, added up, for the entire year. This is better than some major websites. We will continue to invest energy into improving our speed and reliability.
In spite off all this time spent working behind the scenes, we did manage to release a ton of improvements to Toodledo that you may have noticed:
✔ Locations. This was a major effort to make Toodledo location aware. You can now create locations, assign them to tasks and then view your tasks on a map and see which tasks are nearby.
✔ Bi-directional sorting of tasks, ascending or descending
✔ Created API 2.0 to allow for a whole new generation of third-party apps that sync with Toodledo.
✔ The Hotlist can now be customized further to include starred tasks and tasks with a "Next Action" status.
✔ When adding a subtask you can now set all of the attributes of the subtask instead of just the title, and you have the choice of having your defaults applied or have the subtask inherit values from its parent.
✔ A popup tag picker that shows the most frequently used tags with auto-complete as you type.
✔ The context filter was upgraded to allow for filtering on multiple contexts at a time.
✔ Added a tag filter, so you can filter your lists by any number of tags.
✔ Ability to add folders, contexts, goals and locations on-the-fly when you are adding a new task.
✔ Ability to email a task from the website to someone.
✔ Addition of "permanent links" for tasks so that you can bookmark individual tasks.
✔ The "Started" tab was added to show tasks with a start-date that has arrived.
✔ Improved subtask behavior, made optimizations, and added account options for tweaking the way the subtask filters work.
✔ Firefox addon received a number of updates, including the ability to set start-time, star, reminders and location. Also the ability to use European style dates (DD/MM/YYY).
✔ The Notebook section remembers how you sorted your notes between page refreshes.
✔ Reminders/Alarms for tasks can now be sent to a Twitter account.
✔ File storage for Pro Plus accounts was increased to 5GB.
✔ Enhancements to the way tasks can be added via email and Twitter, including the ability for defaults to be set for certain fields.
✔ Ability to move the note and file attachment icons to the left side of the task.
✔ Added a new action menu and cleaned up and consolidated many functions into this menu.
✔ Sticky toolbars. The toolbars (filters, search, etc) will now remember their state between page refreshes.
✔ Improvements to keyboard shortcuts
✔ You can now add multiple tasks (and subtasks) without having to go to a separate page.
✔ Added an experimental feature to have the toolbars fixed to the top of the screen so that they remain visible when you scroll your list.
✔ Added the ability to view which third-party apps have access to your account, and block them if necessary.
✔ Made improvements to calendar syncing for iCal and Google Calendar. Alarms, locations and contexts are now synced and edits to your tasks are propagated more reliably.
✔ Improvements to switching to collaborator's list and staying on that list when you switch views.
✔ And literally hundreds of additional small improvements and bug fixes.
We also worked very hard to improve our iOS App, which has consistently been in the top 50 ranked productivity apps on the iTunes App Store. We have a lot of work left to do, but the iOS app is getting closer to feature-parity with the website. Here is what we added this year:
✔ iPad Support
✔ Notebook Support
✔ Multitasking Support
✔ Location awareness with locations, maps, distance sorting and proximity alerts
✔ Passcode lock to keep your data private
✔ Multi-sort and bi-directional sort
✔ Context Filter added
✔ Tag Filter added
✔ Dual badges allow you to see filtered and total tasks inside a list
✔ Multi-line titles in lists allow you to see the entire task title
✔ Lists are visually grouped with dividers
✔ Clone tasks to quickly make a copy
✔ Task notes are immediately visible instead of tapping "Read Note" button
✔ Bigger Fonts general setting
✔ Support for high resolution Retina display
✔ Sync in the background
✔ Calendar based date picker for choosing a due-date
✔ Italian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Dutch translations
✔ Alarms can now be triggered by the device instead of using remote push notifications.
✔ Add folders, contexts and goals on the fly when editing a task
✔ View default values that will be set when adding a task
✔ Customizable Hotlist
✔ And a bunch of additional small improvements and bug fixes.
We appreciate all the support and suggestions that we have received from everyone. We are striving to make Toodledo the best productivity tool on the internet, and we have big plans for 2011 and beyond. Thanks to everyone for making Toodledo a success.
Happy New Year!
This message was edited Dec 22, 2010.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 22, 2010
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Yes, this is a safe assumption. You can also use the ref passthrough if you want to be extra safe.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 22, 2010
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Thanks for the suggestion. We can't comment on a timeframe for implementation, but this is on our to-do list.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 22, 2010
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 22, 2010
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Thanks for the suggestion.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 22, 2010
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If you are using "Sync on Edit" and you check and quickly uncheck a task while it is still syncing the "check" in the background, it is possible that sometimes the "uncheck" could get lost. We are looking into this. In the meantime, if you need to quickly uncheck a task, wait a few seconds for the "sync on edit" to finish before you do so.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 22, 2010
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The vast majority of people do not need old completed tasks. They just clutter up the history and slow down the website. For those people who need a complete history, we offer this in our Pro subscription and you can also export completed tasks and save them to your computer with the free account.
Tasks deleted in this method will likely be deleted from your mobile phone as well, but the implementation of this is up to the developer who made your app. You would need to contact NuevaSync and ask them if they delete old completed tasks when they are deleted from the website.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 22, 2010
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We use a low power technology provided by Apple called "Significant Location Change". Apple has decided to enable this technology only on devices with GPS and 3G. So, it won't work on the iPod touch unless Apple decides to enable it in a future update. When the app is open and running, we can use different technology to get your approximate location from your wifi location, but Apple does not allow this to work in the background. Only when the app is running.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 22, 2010
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This is a known bug that we hope to fix in a future update.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 21, 2010
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Tasks and notebooks only, since they are the only ones that allow bulk adding at the moment, and so they are the only ones that need it.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 21, 2010
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 21, 2010
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 21, 2010
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 21, 2010
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Ok, that was easy. We just added a passthrough reference number. It is undocumented at the moment, so if you want to use it, set the "ref" variable when adding a task/notebook and it will be echoed back to you.
/2/tasks/add.php?tasks=[{"title":"Task","ref":"1"}]
This message was edited Dec 21, 2010.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 21, 2010
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We made a few small changes today to the API. Nothing that should cause a problem.
1) Fixed a bug where the timestamps returned from account/get may have been negative if the time did not exist. Timestamps are now floored at 0 if there is no value.
2) When adding a task or notebook, if you tried to set an invalid folder it will now return an error instead of silently adding the task/notebook with an empty folder.
3) When adding/editing a task and setting an invalid parent id, it will now return an error instead of silently adding/editing the task without changing the parent.
4) We have added an experimental non-documented feature that you can test out if you want. When adding a task or notebook, you can now pass through a reference number to help with matching up what you sent and what you received. Just set the "ref" variable to a unique integer when adding a task/notebook. This value is not stored in any way, it is just echoed back to you.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 21, 2010
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This was a bug, but we just fixed it. Thanks for reporting it.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 21, 2010
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I see your point. You should know that the array of notebooks returned from the "add notebook" API is in the same order as the JSON object that you submitted. You can use that order to correlate. In other words, if you add {"NotebookA", "NotebookB"} we will return {"NotebookA ID=123", "NotebookB ID=135"}
I suppose a nicer way to handle this would be for us to support a pass-through reference number, so you could pass an internal ID with each add, and it would echo that back when on success/error. I'll put this on our to-do list.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 20, 2010
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This is on our to-do list, but it is our policy to not comment on our roadmap or delivery dates for future feature improvements.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 20, 2010
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It does not affect battery. All it does is change the math that we use to calculate if you are near a location. If you get too many false positives you can lower the sensitivity. If you miss too many alerts, you can increase it.
It all depends on the density and location of the cellphone towers where you live, so you'll have to play with this and the alert distance to get something that works for your situation. We suspect that city customers may do better with "High sensitivity" and rural customers may do better with "low" due to the way that cellphone tower positioning works.
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Jake
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Jake (Admin)
- Posted: Dec 20, 2010
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Subtasks on the iPad are showing inside the parent task already. This is controlled via the subtask filter (nested/inline). Or, are you looking for something different?
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