You don't need an alarm function to keep track of time spent on each task. Look at the Parallel Timers app. When the user quites Todo you store which timers were running, how much time was left on each running timer. and the time that the Todo app was closed. When the user enters Todo again you subtract from the running timers the time elapsed since Todo was closed.
Of course, this means that at the end of the task the user has to remember to open Todo and manually stop or pause the timer. But it's easy to develop a habit of doing that. Also, you can overcome the SDK limitation and still have an alarm, by adding a new Task that starts when you want the alarm, syncing to the Toodledo website, and having the website send the SMS or email reminder. (Also, the iPhone has the Alarm function in its built-in Clock app... is there a way to automatically add an alarm to the clock? then you get an alarm without having to run your own app in the background). On Dec 27, 4:03 pm, "Appigo Support" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for taking the time to write to us. We love hearing > suggestions and feedback from our customers. This is certainly an > interesting idea that we will pass along to our developers for review. > We will not be able to provide an alarm function due to the > restraints of the iPhone SDK but it is an excellent idea. > > We hope you continue to send us your suggestions and feedback. We > really appreciate it. If there is anything else we can do just let us > know. > > Thanks, > > The Appigo Team > > > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:46 PM, ilya <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Often you want to spend a particular amount of time doing a task, e.g. > > "spend 3 hours cleaning the apartment". It would be great if Todo > > would keep track of how much time you've already spent. So, you'd > > create the task "clean apartment" with the duration "3 hours". > > There'd be buttons in Todo, "start working on task" and "stop working > > on task", which you could press when you start/stop working on the > > task. Todo would then keep track of how much time is left, and would > > mark the task "Completed" once the duration has passed (and perhaps > > alert you with an alarm). > > > This would save you from having to explicitly break a complex task > > into sub-tasks: you'd just make sure to spend a given amount of time > > on the complex task, and would break it down on-the-fly as you do it. > > This would also make it easy to do a long task in several time > > intervals. > > > Combined with the "repeating tasks" suggestion given earlier, this > > would make it easy to get long-term goals done, e.g. "spend 3 hours > > every week reading on given subject", or "spend 1 hour each day > > exercising". Todo could even "roll over" the time into the next week > > or period -- e.g. if you only spent 2 hours this week reading then it > > could add the hour to next week's instance of the repeating task, > > creating a 4-hour reading task. In keeping with GTD method, you > > wouldn't have to plan _when_ you do things, but Todo would help ensure > > _that_ you do them whenever you can. > > > thanks, > > > ilya > > -- > Appigo Support > [email protected] > > Learn more about AccuFuel (fuel efficiency tracker), Notebook (notes > available everywhere), and Todo (simple task management) on Appigo's > website:http://www.appigo.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
