On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Appigo Support <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the detailed list, let me comment and ask some questions inline
> below so it's all in context.
>
> Some things I just wanted to catalog here as my "most looking forward
>> to" feature requests.
>>
>> 1) 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.
>
>
1) We are talking about a non issue here. The iphone rings, plays
music, has alarms, ringtones, calendar alerts, sms alerts, should I stop
now? Do you think people are not using it because it has these things? This
is exactly what the silent button is for.
I have a wav file of the Batman Animated character saying "Good Job!" Every
time I complete a task I would love to hear that. It would engage me and
others (depending on their choice of wav/mp3/whatever) in their relationship
with their tasks. Even better how about a vocal countdown of tasks due
today. I have 5 tasks due today. I complete one and it says 4 more to go.
Okay maybe I am going too far but I know there is a competing to do program
that uses sounds and every geek sci fi person can relate to a gadget that
responds with audible feedback when they are on a mission. Also it shouldn't
be too difficult to implement.
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> 2) Very interesting, I've added your notes to our futures list.
>
>
2) Competitor gooeydo has something like this. It says how many of
your tasks were
completed on time. I wouldn't mind a simple tracking of tasks
completed using a
bar graph and a category/context pie chart. You get the idea.
>
>
> 3) 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.
>
>
3) The iphone doesn't allow copy and paste. You could also say this
is a fundamental aspect of
the iphones functionality. Remember the milk one of your sync
partners has this functionality.
You could consder it being in line with their product. Like I said
your product provides 2 ways
of deleting a task. I wonder how many iphone users actually use the
swipe to delete. I would
go on to further ask you "Which do you think happens more deleting
tasks or completing them"
You should consider you application as it's own environment and
cater to actions appropriate
within it. Swipe to delete was appropriately introduced for email
management. Tasks are not emails.
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>
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>> 4) 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?
>
>
4) I concur 100%. In fact on reviewing the iphone calendar after
writing this I couldn't think of a simpler way. Perfect suggestion.
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>
> 5) 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?
>
5) You say it perfectly. "we put a shortcut to add them rather than
switching to the contacts app"
So, are you saying you make it easier for people to add contacts
without having to go to another
Program? That is exactly what I am saying except I am asking that
this be more accessible from
the main screen. You sell a product you want people to use. In
that environment there is a way to
add a contact. Are you saying that should only be for when someone
is adding a contact to a task? I am saying if I can have a shortcut to
create a contact from your program I won't have to go to iphone's contact
manager and I can spend more time at todo. Where it should be placed is a
minor design choice. Why include this? I say because tasks and people are
practically inseparable. In fact you may want to additionally add a way for
people to create tasks from a contact. I sometimes think people first then
task second like when you want to see an agenda you have with someone. You
may want to see a listing of tasks related to them .That may actually
involve creating additonal functionality but viewing a list of contacts from
your app and creating one doesn't seem to be.
>
> 6) 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.
>
> 6) I have an altogether new idea for this. Executing code for third
party apps. Ever heard of I want
Sandy? She takes email commands or used to before being bought by
twitter. I think you can
massively differentiate your program if you provide the option to
interact with other service through
their simple communication structures. How? gopingme.com takes email
and sms commands.
For instance, "text or email me back in 10 minutes." What is
required is just text being sent
to a specific email. So set up a "Gopingme" functionality that only
requires the input of the
secret email. Then you have a go ping me button. I click on it and
type. "remind me to call
back in 20 minutes" Your program send that text to the secret email
and gopingme sends
back a text reminder in 20 minutes. All you program has to do is
send the text by email to
that email already entered for go pingme. This is just one service.
I know another that does
reminder calls.
>
> 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.
>
> Yeah I know but somebody is already doing it so who knows it was just
> mentioning for the sake of saying what is already out there. A big criticism
> I would have of your home screen though is it makes no accounting for that
> tasks that need to be done by a certain time. TouchTodo has a screen
> organized around time and when you get up in the morming I believe priortity
> is focused on things that need to get done that day. I one line link to all
> lists is all that is needed I feel. Fot those things that absolutely must
> get done to day that view is comforting. Anyway just my opinion. It would
> sort of be like your date chooser in a way but more categorized.
>
> -The Appigo Team
>
If there any openings on your team I would love to participate. Even if it
was unofficial :-)
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