Ilya, Thanks for all the great detailed suggestions. We've passed this one on to our development team as well.
The Appigo Team -- Appigo Support [email protected] Learn more about Todo (task management made simple), Notebook (notes available everywhere), and AccuFuel (fuel efficiency tracker) on Appigo's website: http://www.appigo.com/ Follow the latest from Appigo on Facebook: http://www.tinyurl.com/appigo-fb Follow the latest from Appigo on Twitter: http://twitter.com/appigo Participate with Appigo and our community using the following Google groups: http://groups.google.com/group/appigo-todo/ http://groups.google.com/group/appigo-notebook/ http://groups.google.com/group/appigo-accufuel/ On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM, ilya <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Learn more about Todo (task management made simple), 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
