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Thanks for taking the time to write to us and thanks for using our Apps! The Appigo Team On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Fleisher, Ken <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, and thanks again for replying so quickly to all of my e-mails. > > It turns out the Toodledo does "not" retain the tasks on the iPhone after > being purged from the website, just as you suspected. I really don't 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 don't 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 haven't read yet in > over 5 years!). Naturally, I want those to stay. But I also want the ones > that I have read (and marked "completed") to stay as well, as a history of > my reading activity. I can look back at any time and see "who wrote that > book" or "when did I read that" or "what was the title of that book", 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, I'd like to suggest yet another feature request. > > Would it be possible to create an "archived" 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 it's only completed tasks, perhaps it should not be > too easy to edit, since that's 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 shouldn't have to really care that it's 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 "archive" 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. 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