Sep 8
Finding the Perfect iPhone Todo List - Saga Continues
Today may be a banner day in finding the perfect todo list option for me and my iPhone. Enter Google Chrome. For those of you who haven’t heard, Google has released a browser called Chrome. It is clean, fast, and has some very interesting features that are growing more and more compelling to me all the time.
Google Chrome gives you the option of creating virtual applications out of online applications. In reality, it is pretty simple, Google Chrome will open an online app in its own window that has the forward, back, URL, and other standard browser buttons removed. It makes online apps feel more like apps that live on your harddrive.
Here is how Chrome and Toodledo have collided to give me a more interesting and integrated todo option. Toodledo has a very clean interface for the iPhone but their standard interface leaves a little to be desired. The great thing about Toodledo’s iPhone interface is that you can access it in a standard browser on your PC or Mac. Here is where my head exploded…
I opened the iPhone interface of Toodledo in Google Chrome and turned it into a virtual app. The Chrome virtual apps remember how they were sized and where they were in the window when you last closed them.
Long story short, I now have a todo widget that lives on the far left part of my workspace that stays out of the way that is always synced on my iPhone. In other words, it is possible to use chrome to create iPhone app widgets that have their own window and live on your computer.
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Murdog,
So it’s been 6+ weeks since this posting. I’m 2 weeks from getting a new iPhone to go with my new Macbook (getting rid of my pc-phone)…and the task list is my biggest concern. Are you still thinking this is the primo task list?
AND…are you using Google Calendar with your iphone and Toodledo? Or should I stay with my icalendar…or do they all intergrate? I’m a tech wannabe, so I need your wisdom Ben-Kenobi.
I’m about to escape the death of Outlook, so I want to choose well.
Alrighty, I am still using Toodledo. It has a fairly nice iPhone interface. There are nicer looking todo lists that are available through the iTunes music store, but there is no sync or web integration. It is nice to be able to see your todo list wherever you are even if you don’t have your laptop or iPhone. That is why I like Toodledo.
I have chosen Google Calendar for the same reason. It is one of the best online apps out there bar none, although, Mac’s MobileMe calendar is pretty sweet.
I have elected to pay the $99 per year for MobileMe in order to get the real time push calendaring feature. If I put something on my calendar on my iPhone, it automagically appears in my Outlook (Thanks to the MobileMe client I downloaded to my work computer.) Alternately, if I put something on my work calendar it gets automagically pushed to my phone. It has worked flawlessly.
MobileMe had a bit of a bumpy start when it was first announced, but it really seems that Apple has it all sorted out, and I recommend it.
I’m Mobile Me’ing already. The fee seems stiff, but it sure is nice to have everything automatically pushed.
You convinced me of Toodledo, and I I have been using it for over a week now with my iPhone. It ROCKS. This was a big concern of mine, and I was very happy to pay only $4 for the itunes app. They should give you a kick-back for the free advertising. Or maybe I just still get to buy you a coffee.
I’m now searching for a more secure option for my password list that I USED to keep hidden in my NOTES on Outlook.
I appreciate that. On the MobileMe front, I hope you bought it from Amazon. I bought it today for just less than sixty dollars after shipping. I was preparing to a we seventy dollar price tag which would have been better than the ninety-nine dollar retail price but I’ll take sixty any day.
Amazon.com is the only place to get it.
When I first started using Toodledo, there wasn’t an iPhone app. I was using the website to do my updates. That meant that I had to wait for the site to load and then I had to wait for the Toodledo page to load, and even then it was a little sluggish.
Now there is an app, than Aaron for alerting me. It was $3.99 in the app store, but if it speeds up my todo list work even a little bit, it will have paid for itself within the first week of use. I am looking forward to using it.