Hello, and thanks again for replying so quickly to all of my e-mails. It turns out the Toodledo does ³not² retain the tasks on the iPhone after being purged from the website, just as you suspected. I really don¹t want to subscribe to a yearly account just to keep my data from being deleted, especially since this is not for a business and the expense is not justified. I also don¹t think your iCal sync will work for me for the following reason:
I like to keep a number of lists to keep track of certain things, like a reading list. For example, I enter all of the books I want to read, along with author name and other info. Sometimes it might be one or two years before I read a book on the list (or longer‹some books I haven¹t read yet in over 5 years!). Naturally, I want those to stay. But I also want the ones that I have read (and marked ³completed²) to stay as well, as a history of my reading activity. I can look back at any time and see ³who wrote that book² or ³when did I read that² or ³what was the title of that book², etc. The reading list is just one example of this type of list I use. Others include a movie list, a live theater list, music (CD) wish list, etc. It is not important to me that the completed items remain on the Toodledo web site and continue to sync. I would be happy with them remaining on my iPhone but not appearing on the web site any longer. So, with my more complete description, I¹d like to suggest yet another feature request. Would it be possible to create an ³archived² list? I envision this to work like this: You can set the amount of time before a completed task should be archived. This would naturally be just a bit shorter than the time that you have set on the Toodledo web site. When the item is archived, it is moved to a secondary database. The first database continues to sync with the web site as usual, but the archive database does not sync with the web site. Both lists can show up intermingled, however, but are visually distinct by color, or some other visual indicator. The archived database should still be able to be edited, but since it¹s only completed tasks, perhaps it should not be too easy to edit, since that¹s not the main purpose of retaining them. A search would search both the main database and the archive database (or there could be a checkbox to indicate whether or not to search the archive database too) and results from both show up together. In other words, the user shouldn¹t have to really care that it¹s two databases except to know that anything in the archive database is persistent. The user might not want this behavior for every list, so maybe there could be a preference to only archive completed tasks based on a folder, or tag, or some other criteria. You could even add a new interface and perhaps new fields to accommodate this new type of list. A reading list type could include fields for author, ISBN, where you saw it, perhaps include links to amazon.com or something like that, a field for comments about the book. A movie list could have the title, length, names of stars, director, etc. You get the idea. The best solution would be if you could implement this ³archive² database, but if Toodledo could also change their API so that the application could know the difference of whether a task was deleted by the user or if it was automatically purged. That way your app could know whether to delete or archive the task locally. Thanks again for listening! Ken On 12/24/08 10:46 AM, "Appigo Support" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken, > > I wanted to answer this here so other's would have the answer too. The > Toodledo site will remove completed tasks after 6 months (or sooner if you > have it set that way) on their free accounts. When they remove their > accounts, the site will record that a delete has taken place so when we > synchronize with them we are notified of the deletes just as if you had > deleted the task from their site. > > The result is that the tasks will also be removed from Todo. The same would > apply to any other app syncing with their site using their API. If you > upgrade to their full account, they will keep a longer history of completed > tasks. > > We'll have an alternative solution available the beginning of January that > will allow you to sync Todo to your desktop into iCal tasks. This would > provide an unlimited history of completed tasks (as long as iCal can hold > them). Initially this will be a Mac solution but we plan on adding Windows > and Outlook support soon afterwards. > > -The Appigo Team > > > > > -- Kenneth N. Fleisher Photographer Imaging & Visual Services National Gallery of Art 6th Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20565 Phone: (202) 712-7471 [email protected] Mailing Address: 2000B South Club Drive Landover, MD 20785 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Learn more about Todo, Notebook (notes available everywhere), and AccuFuel (fuel efficiency tracker) on Appigo's website: http://www.appigo.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Appigo Todo" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/appigo-todo?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
