[appigo-todo] Re: Individual notification setup per task

Wayne,

if, as you claim, its a "Next Actions" app then why is there an option
to select an exact due date and time for a task? And if so, why not
integrate a per-task alarm option to notify about the very due date
and time? I see no real obstacle to this. Why not make things more
flexible?
Concerning the calendar view, a due date and time are themselves fixed
things in time, to quote you. Suppose you have a task on a specific
day three weeks from now, say a whole-day visit to an exhibition. When
planning another task also three weeks from now its very convenient to
see if that day is available or not. Again, if Todo was just a "Next
Actions" app then there would be no need for any due dates and times.
Tasks would simply roll one after another.

Todo has a great potential, why not use it to the full?

omikronalfa.

On Feb 2, 7:22 pm, Wayne Mesard <wmes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Both features (a calendar view and per-task notification options) are things
> you would want in a calendar app.  (The two examples you give are
> appointments; i.e., items that you'd enter into a calendar.)  Todo is not a
> calendar app, it's a Next Actions app.  As David Allen says, calendars are
> for managing the "hard landscape", things which are fixed in time.
>
> Sure, there's overlap in functionality.  And it would be nice if Apple would
> allow other apps to integrate with the built-in Calendar.  (It would be
> really useful during the Sunday night review of the upcoming week to, for
> example, with a couple of clicks turn the "Mom's birthday" calendar item
> into a "call Mom" Todo task.)
>
> But if you're serious about getting things done, the two functions should be
> kept separate.  Also, from a historical--and less dogmatic--perspective,
> computer applications that try to be both a calendar and a task manager
> generally wind up doing neither very well.
>
> (imho *) Wayne();
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:13 PM, omikronalfa <omikrona...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > thank you for a very good app Todo. Its so far the best among the task
> > apps in AppStore. Among its most useful features is the tight
> > integration with Contacts and an option to do all the usual things
> > right from the task, even to send an SMS! This is brilliant!
>
> > It has two major drawbacks, though. At least for me.
> > First, as it has already been pointed out, is the lack of a week/month
> > overview calendar where I can check what is ahead before I set a new
> > task. Second, an option to set up a notification in every individual
> > task rather than having one fixed setup for all items.
> > Let me explain: different tasks require different notification time.
> > For a meeting on the other end of the city I need to be notified at
> > least 2 hours beforehand. For a simple call, on the other hand, its
> > enough right on the pre-set time of the call. Getting a notification
> > about a call 2 hours before I really need it doesnt serve me well
> > because in 2 hours I may forget it.
>
> > So please, Appigo, include these two very convenient features in the
> > next update.
>
> > Thank you very much for your great work,
> > omikronalfa.

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