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Quickly sketch out class or meeting schedules with Weekly Schedule for iPad

by Michael Rose (Feb 9th, 2013)

With so many ways to share calendars and schedules, sometimes it's nice to go a little bit old-school with a blank sheet of paper, a Magic Marker and a little bit of time. Mobile Simplified's $0.99 Weekly Schedule app, just released to the US App Store for iPad, delivers some of that hands-on ...

Audiobus claims to mix audio sources on your iOS device

by Mike Schramm (Dec 10th, 2012)

We've seen before that iOS can be very powerful in terms of producing audio, but there's one big drawback, and it's that iPhones and iPads are still only designed to be used for one task at a time. If you want to do more than one task at a time (like combining beats with a synth, or processing ...

Task: Clear ripoff on steroids

by Kelly Guimont (Jun 6th, 2012)

Task ($0.99) from Nuage touch is an amazing to-do app. It's basically Clear on steroids. There's just one problem: it's not by Realmac Software, the people who invested so much time and energy creating a stripped-down, gesture-based interface. Listen folks, it's one thing when Apple Sherlocks ...

TUAW'S Daily iPad App: Pocket Informant HD

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 28th, 2011)

WebIS Pocket Informant is an advanced PIM that has been around for years, transitioning from the Windows Mobile platform to iOS quite nicely. The iPad version of this calendaring and task management app is particularly notable for its wonderful layout and efficient use of the entire iPad ...

TaskRabbit iPhone app lets you crowdsource your tasks

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 28th, 2011)

TaskRabbit is a unique service that lets busy people offload their tasks to those willing to do them. It costs a small fee, but you can have your groceries delivered, laundry done and dogs walked before you return home from a busy day at work. When it launched, the service was web-based only, ...

TUAW Giveaway: Bugger puts repeated reminders in your pocket

by Michael Rose (Sep 21st, 2010)

Given the number of things you have to keep track of in a day, sometimes a simple task manager -- the kind that reminds you once and then waits until the next day to tickle you again -- doesn't seem adequate. If you wish you had a snooze button for your tasks, maybe Bugger (US$0.99) is worth a ...

OmniFocus for iPhone finally has reminders, but implementation is awful

by Jason Clarke (Jul 24th, 2009)

[Update] Ken Case comments below, addressing some of the concerns listed here. It looks like a future version of OmniFocus on the Mac will be able to directly update the OmniFocus reminders on the server, removing at least one of my complaints. Ken Case from The Omni Group has been twittering for ...

Macworld Expo: Big things for Things

by Michael Rose (Jan 13th, 2009)

It was a heck of a coming-out party for Cultured Code's Things, the task organizer and GTD platform for Mac and iPhone. With a passel of awards for the product (including a Macworld Best in Show) and a shipping 1.0 version of the desktop app, the CC gang had plenty to celebrate. I stopped by the ...

Midnight Inbox v0.9.5

by David Chartier (Oct 2nd, 2006)

Since we first heard about it a month ago, Midnight Inbox has been improving by leaps and bounds. One only needs to check Midnight Beep Softwork's development blog to get updated on all the changes and improvements (far too many to thoroughly list here), but put simply: a lot of performance and ...

Widget Watch: The Daily Grind 2.0

by David Chartier (Apr 26th, 2006)

Dave Caolo found The Daily Grind last month, just this week it was updated to version 2. The new version of this task-tracking widget adds colored labels and the ability to drag and drop tasks for greater organizing goodness or "simply because it's an addictive pastime." The Daily Grind v2 is ...