Todo+Cal+Sync is a complex todo application that has an integrated Calendar to keep everything inside the application. Give your tasks tags for work, home, urgent, etc, which are all editable. Todo+Cal+Sync lets you completely customize your tasks.
You can even give the tasks a location(coordinates and text), status, priority, subtasks, and even it’s own color(to make it easy to find), you can be as specific or as broad as you’d like. They also let you sort your tasks in many different ways, and each way has it’s own button at the bottom. These buttons are pretty small because there are so many, but the last 2 really don’t need to be there(and the email action button doesn’t either). Those last two buttons(which are to edit and add tags) could be put into the settings page and that would free up some room at the bottom.
While this application isn’t poorly designed, all of the features seem to be packed in tight because there are so many. It feels like the features are too packed in, and it’s just not as easy to use as it should be. Maybe if they stripped it down to it’s bare basics, and just let the advanced features come in when the user enables them.
Note(this doesn’t pertain to this specific application, just iPhone apps in general) – For some reason when I think of a good application on the iPhone I expect it to do all(or most) of the work for me. I shouldn’t have to look over the application to find out how to use it. I should be able to open it up, and let it take me through step by step what’s going on. When I say step by step I don’t mean pages of text either. . .I mean from a design perspective. This is very hard to do, but developers have to remember they’re making applications for an Apple product. Most of the people who own an iPhone are Apple fans because of their design style. I see a lot of ‘windows’ looking apps being released on the iPhone and it just doesn’t compliment the device(in my eyes).
Some Apps are so expansive inclusive as to warrant a minimanual. Look at the i41CX+… it is a magnificent replica + of the first programmable hand held device that killed the sliderule… There are so many longstanding apps in so many domains for it that it actually does require elplanation. So the old RTFM still obtains. This one might be great, I think that it has the makings of something utterly fantastic buy they are not quite there yet for that. First it must outstrip the current calendar and have fields for every 15 minutes because that is how we bill our time. And the calendar must be visible on a Day, Week, Month, and Quarter Basis. And then it must have a set of Standard Tasks and then a list of authorized projects. And then it must start collecting the time spent on each project… then it will be something unbeilivable.
Until then Cute but no cigar.
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