It's great how you can create a Todo item from an Appigo Notebook
note. It would be even better if you could do that from other apps as
well. For example, from an app that stores pdf documents, you could
create a task to read a particular PDF document. From an app that
stores audio recordings, you could create a task that is described in
an audioclip. From an app that organizes contacts, you could create a
task to call a contact.
This can be implemented in two parts:
- the other app needs to implement a protocol for opening a file
within their app. For example, there is this excellent PDF reading
app called Good Reader. Suppose this app registers a protocol, say
gread://, for opening a file stored inside his app: opening
gread://mydir/myfile.pdf would launch Good Reader and open
myfile.pdf .
Then, a Todo task with the URL gread://mydir/myfile.pdf can be created
for reading that file. (I've made this suggestion to Good Reader
author.) When viewing a file, Good Reader can have a command to copy
the gread:// URL for opening this file to the clipboard. Then one
can quit Good Reader, open Todo, create a URL task for reading this
file, and paste the URL for opening the file into Todo. This requires
no changes to Todo.
- but even better, if Todo registered a protocol such as todo://
for launching Todo and creating a task, and publicized its syntax (for
example, todo://title=Read_myfile.pdf&url=gread://mydir/myfile.pdf ),
then Good Reader could have a direct command, when viewing a file, to
create a Todo task for reading that file.
Of course these suggestions are not specific to Good Reader. This
mechanism could be used for attaching arbitrary files to tasks.
Such inter-app communication has been missing from the iPhone, but
would be really useful.
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