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Appigo – Todo iPhone App

My iPhone got a little bit better to use as a tool yesterday.

I’ve written before about how I use my phone as the centerpiece of my strategy for staying in touch and keeping organized. A big part of this is using a task management application to help keep track of all my projects.

My project management is handled by Toodledo, a cloud computing application where I keep all my projects, to-do’s and notes. One of the great things about Toodledo is that to-do items can be sorted into tasks and sub-tasks – really important if your projects are not always simple.

There are a lot of iPhone to-do apps, many of which will happily sync with Toodledo. I’ve tried a whole bunch of these and my favorite has always been Todo by Applgo. I couldn’t even say whay I liek it best, it is just so well thought out, easy to use and easy to read. Until yesterday it had a huge drawback for me – no sub-task support. Because I use sub-tasks extensively in Toodledo, it is essential that I don’t lose that formatting on my phone. Toodledo’s own iPhone app does have sub-task support so that has been my iPhone app of second choice for a while.

You won’t believe how happy I was when the App Store let me know there was a new version of Todo available – even better it now supports those elusive sub-tasks. I quickly downloaded the new version and it was time to play. Just as an aside, I love how simple Apple have made updates. Having come from the Windows Mobile world, this is such a treat!

Anyway, I must say I’m really happy with the new version of Todo – it is doing just what I would have wanted. The attached screenshot shows the sub-tasks that I’ve assigned to my Totally Incorrect project – a kind of preview of blog posts to come in the near future.

There are several really good task management apps for the iPhone and at the moment Todo is my favorite again.

Quick update – after using the new version of Todo, I’m still enjoying it. I do have a feature request though: Toodledo’s iPhone app has a nice feature that lets you quickly place a star next to any item – great for flagging “next actions” if you are using the GTD technique. I would love Todo to have this feature as well </hint>

Are you an iPhone (or other smartphone) user? What is your favorite tool for task management?

http://www.SimplyRFID.com Carl Brown

Hey… Your ToDo’s look a lot like mine! haha — though, I can help with one: Adwords AND SEO.

I used OmniFocus on a Mac for a while but I keep falling back to TextEdit (NotePad) as the most free-form/expressive way of keeping my stuff organized. And, a iCal for hard deadlines.

David

How’s it going Carl? Thanks for visiting and for commenting.

My list of blog to-dos seems to never get any smaller, there is always something new going to to write about.

I realy like my current combination of Todo on the iPhone syncing with Toodledo online – works really well for me.

Tom

It sounds like you use GTD with Toodledo. You might want to check out Action Lists. It syncs with Toodledo and is built around the GTD way of doing things. I like it because it’s got a really clean interface. I’ve used Appigo’s app and it works well, but it has so much going on visually that it’s distracting. And really, that’s the last thing you want from a productivity tool.

David

Hey Tom,

Thanks very much for commenting. Although I try and use some of David Allen’s ideas, I wouldn’t claim to be a classic GTD guy, although I am making an effort to work more closely to his methods.

I appreaciate the tip re Action Lists. I have not tried this one so I’ll make a point of checking it out. I hope it handles sub-tasks. Because I use sub-tasks extensively in Toodledo, an iPhone app without them doesn’t work for me.

Thanks again for stopping by.

Audrie

So, can you create sub-tasks on the iPhone? I do not have a desktop app that I use, but I do use the ToDo app on my iPhone, however, I cannot figure out how to create sub-tasks.
Anyone know?

David

Hi Audrie,

Yes, you can create sub-tasks on the iPhone. There are a couple of ways to do it.

First, you need to have a Project that you are going to populate with sub-tasks. When you create the project, after givin it a name, click on “type” – the default is normal so change to Project.

Then you can go into the your project and clicking on the + in the top right will produce a sub-task for your Project.

Once you have as project, you can also move existing tasks into it. Go to edit a task and go down to Actions. In this menu you can choose move to project and you will have a list of your current projects to choose from. You can also move tasks out of a project and into a different one in this menu.

I hope this helps – I think there are some videos on the Appigo site which will show this better than I can.

Take Care!
David

DubbleStuff

Appigo ToDo is my fave.
Considering I've spent about $80 on all the others I tried at the app store and the desktop versions..
I use Toodledo as my “desktop” app just because of ToDo.

Never knew the older version. But I'm definitely keeping this one for the long haul.
Anonymous

I have tried many to do apps. This one is pretty good. Although, finally I found ,,Plan” app. It’s all I need. simple,useful and quick. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plan/id428005487?mt=8&ls=1#