Thanks for the detailed list, let me comment and ask some questions inline below so it's all in context.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some things I just wanted to catalog here as my "most looking forward > to" feature requests. > > 1) Sounds/alerts - I know Apple has yet provided access to the > calendar for alarms on due date related tasks but it would be a very > nice touch to get a sound on task completion. If the point of having > tasks is to complete them including a sound of accomplishment would go > to honoring that focus. Now the ability for a user to pick the sound > like a ring tone would be awesome. I may wind up actually completing > tasks just to here that sound. We get a lot of requests to add color, but this is a first for sounds. Perhaps something we can look into as an option. I know a lot of people do their task management in meetings and need that silence, but perhaps like the strikeouts we give an option. 2) Chart/Graphs - I have heard it said "If you cannot measure it you > cannot move it." I am passionate about this. I would like to have a > relationship with my tasks that goes beyond a ledger. Adding sounds > engages one of the senses and charts/graphs encourages a different > right brain aspect in us. There is no sense of momentum for me if I am > not able to gauge "my relationship with task accomplishment" I can > see when things are due, what categories they are in, etc. It is all > in a "list" as exciting as a set of groceries my wife wants me to pick > up. All the information needed to create charts is there in 4 to 5 > variables. Creation date, due date, completion date, completion > status, and possibly times for each of these dates. Charts/Graphs are > a perfect objective reflection of our accomplishments or lack of it > where our most challenging opponent is ourselves. There is one app out > there that I know uses charts. I would like to see this in to do. Very interesting, I've added your notes to our futures list. 3) Completing tasks - I know this may not ever happen but I cannot for > the life of me see a more intuitive fun way of completing a task than > a swipe and "complete" or "done" button press. It may quicker to do a > one tap but there is something about the motion and animation of > seeing the task drop out of view I think would create an addictive > endorphin rush. Right now the motion defaults to delete but you can > already delete the task from the details. Completion could become just > a thumb swipe and press away. I appreciate the strike out options but > find it counter-intuitive in reviewing the days completed takes cause > it would be difficult to read. I would much prefer a background color > and possibly foreground text color change with a completed header. Why > keep around something you can hardly read and bring the messiness of > paper to a gadget meant to replace it? I know we've had at least one other person as for the swipe complete feature. In order to provide this, we would have to suppress the iPhone's built in delete option to add the complete. The big concern on this is that it's inconsistent with the default behavior. Swiping an item to delete it is one of the basic concepts of the iPhone. We'd have to play with that a bit and perhaps see what some beta users think of it. We also welcome any comments on it here. > 4) Date Wheel - It is available only at the bottom inside a detail > view option. Why not have it on top. It is definitely more essential > and versatile then the next 7 days listed. Especially because those > next 7 days exist within the wheel but dates beyond the next 7 days > don't exist in the listing Maybe a future advance feature regarding > dates (since they are most likely the thing to get changed in a task > would be to program a Swipe from the right to the left to bring up a > date wheel. It does clutter up the interface and adds a "going details > screen" free way of quickly rescheduling a due date. It would be fine > if it is simply a swipe from right to left to bring up a due date > button press to date selector. As mentioned in another post, this quick pick list of dates is one thing that is completely unique to Appigo's products. We try to give the easiest path possible to setting values and use these quick pick lists a lot. We've also considered doing away with the spinner wheels completely due to all of the feedback against them. What about going to a simple calendar view where you see an entire month at a time (like the calendar app's month view) and you simply choose a day from the month? 5) Contacts - Do you know how many contact managers are out there? > Maybe just as much as there are to do programs. You provide a way to > create contact that is many levels deep and only in relation to a > task. What if my task is to create a new contact entry. It is a 2 > minute rule type task that does not need a task created for it. How > about having that as a quick start button on the home screen so I > don't necessarily have to rely on another contact manager. Even if "I" > do there are probably lots of your users who create contact using the > same exact process but go outside of todo because it isn't available > there even though it can be. There may be other opportunities for the > other types of links. Who knows but contacts is definitely a safe > bet. This feature really wasn't designed to be a contact manager, but simply to help people connect a task to a contact. Sometimes the contacts aren't there so we put a shortcut to add them rather than switching to the contacts app. Could you provide more details on what you were thinking from the home screen? Would that be a different app that simply allowed you to create contacts? Also, we'd love to hear any input on additional tasks types. The nice thing about those, they can be added without much change to the UI or behavior of Todo. I just saw and app recently that is clever enough to take snapshots of > your high priority tasks and make it your wallpaper at certain > intervals so it serves as sort of a today screen. You can therefore > view your tasks on a single button press before unlocking your phone. > What will they think of next? :-) I guess the idea is to get a sort of dash board view for the day. The only problem with this is you would have to come into Todo to build the snapshot of tasks, then switch to the Photos app to find the snapshot and select to "Use As Wallpaper" every time you wanted to update that list. It's a great idea for sure, but the workflow is very cumbersome to accomplish it which has kept us from adding the feature. 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