A plea to smartphone & web 2.0 developers

Posted by Edwin Yip
May 14, 2011 at 10:32 AM

Hi Ken,

I have just adopted a Samsung Galaxy S Android phone (am very satisfied, BTW), and I have tried at least 10 of the ‘to do list’ apps those can be found on the Android Market.

Firstly I chose Astrid (which is popular), before I noticed Wunderlist has a Android version which I finally have chosen. Reasons:

Most importantly, it allows me group tasks into lists (that’s two level organization, as you mentioned), with a very beautiful and neat interface. Although it would have been perfect if it supports subtasks.

On the other hand, there are other Android apps that supports subtasks, but the implementation is not OK - the design is faulty in that they don’t take into account the small screen size on a smartphone as compared to a desktop computer screen, this is the same error Microsoft has made when designing Windows Mobile (at least prior to Windows Phone 7, I have used a Windows Mobile 6.5 HTC phones for years, and I must say, my current Samsung Galaxy S is 100 times better!)

Second, it has a web version, the UI and UX is also great.

And it has reminders (unfortunately, it only send email notifications, not directly alarms you on the phone (which is what I want)).

Hope it helps.

Personal rant: In the past years I’ve been waiting for a ‘small project management tool’ for Windows like OmniFocus for Mac, and actually I’ve tried over 50 including the desktop programs and web-based ones, none is OK to me. If I still can’t find one until I have more resources to make my own, I’ll develop my own one. As a matter of fact, I’ve put up a site collecting ideas at:

http://ProjectOutliner.com. (If you know OmniFocus, you might noticed that it can be developed base on Writing Outliner)

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Edwin Yip
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