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Vox Pop: To-dos on your iPhone?
Merlin Mann | Jul 3 2007
As noted by John Gruber and Living with Mac, the iPhone doesn't currently appear to have built-in support for "to-dos" -- even the modest task support that's built-in to OS X's iCal. :-( While this is difficult for me to understand (I know it's something I'd expect in even a Gen 1 smart phone), it's cool to see that web- and Mac-based developers are stepping up to the plate in the absence. A few of the apps I've seen so far (and in varying states of reality and vapor):
I'm sure there are others that I'm missing (which I hope you'll share in comments), and I know this is something that's a priority for a lot of you proud new iPhone owners: What are you using to manage actions from your iPhone? What would a home run look like in terms of future, built-in to-do support for the iPhone? 27 Comments
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Jay...i use Highrise and like...Submitted by Rick (not verified) on July 4, 2007 - 2:20pm.
Jay...i use Highrise and like it a lot. Needs some work, which hopefully it will get. Generally speaking, I like 37s’ work and TaDa looks great on the iPhone (I signed up for a free account and played with it). But we run into problem #2 I reference above for me to use it. Sebastian, yes, Bartek has said that forcing iPhone ‘apps’ into a web2.0 framework is not a problem and he’ll likely be doing something to allow iGTD to play on the iPhone. But I'm not expecting anything anytime soon. And while I love iGTD (and have donated to the developer), I'm not ruling out a switch to OmniFocus if I find it compelling enough. In the meantime, I will probably fall back on option 2, which is to extract those tasks I want to see on my iPhone and put them in some web-based app to get that visibility. Will probably play with TaDa list for now and see how that goes. Jay, do you see an advantage in this regard for Backpack over TaDa? One thing I like about TaDa is it’s simple, and the formatting works beautifully on the iPhone. Highrise works, but you have to zoom and then scroll to really read anything. » POSTED IN:
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