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A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Just out of curiosity, why do you need an encryption feature? What do you store there that's so important? – beiju, on November 19, 2008 00:27

headbirth replied on November 18, 2008 15:14 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned ithere, but an encryption feature for notes would be awesome.

GianMarco Tavazzani replied on November 04, 2008 22:02 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

A menu bar icon with colours (like the icon on finder would already be Ok): the black one is sooo sad..

Atom replied on November 01, 2008 21:45 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

V4: I also vote for some type of iPhone sync! Would be great either with iPhone's built-in notes feature, or would be even better with a Check Off app for the iPhone. Would be great if the iphone showed the folders and color coding.

EddieMo71 replied on October 29, 2008 16:21 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Used to use Check Off on another computer last year. just got a new mac last month and tracked down Check off as soon as I got it out of the box and have to say it's just as great as I remember it being. I've been using an iPhone for a few months now and the lack of a good syncable to do list has been driving me nucking futs. Some type of iPhone sync PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

It "should" work as beiju described. If not, it may be because the way I'm doing in in 3.0 is incredibly hacky since there wasn't an official way to do it prior to Leopard. – Justin Williams, on October 22, 2008 02:59

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Hmm, that sounds odd. To help the developer, can you check the "Login Items" tab, in the accounts pane of System Preferences, and see if Check Off is in there? If it is, then the problem is with OSX. If not, uncheck and recheck the checkbox in Check Off and see if it shows up. If it's still not there, you should probably report the bug to the developer. In the meantime, you can make that happen manually by dragging the icon from the Finder to that list. It should then open when you log in. – beiju, on October 22, 2008 01:23

howzitgarn replied on October 21, 2008 16:13 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Hi there, I just wanted to say that love your program.. However It would be great if you could set the program to automatically open on any restart. I have the box "launch check off when you log into your mac" checked but the program has never opened automatically for me. i'm running a macbook pro intel 2.4ghz with 10.4.11. cheers

Graeme replied on October 13, 2008 10:44 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Three more random thoughts... (if they haven't been mentioned already - apologies if they have)

1. Preferences checkbox to 'not show' completed tasks
2. Preferences checkbox to 'auto-move' completed tasks to the bottom of a 'folder'
3. Current version animates out 'behind' open windows, eg. Firefox

Thanks for all the efforts... This is such a useful application

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Hmmm... maybe trying to go the same way on your other Mac? preferences->dropbox instead of the other way around? – beiju, on October 10, 2008 14:10

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

I spoke too soon. :-(

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it turns out that even though Check Off reads the plist file from my Dropbox, it overwrites the symlink in my ~/Library/Preferences folder with a new plist file, rather than writing the plist file back to the Dropbox (where the symlink is pointing). Bummer. All the more reason to add this feature to version 4.0, as there's no workaround for the current version. – Wobbly, on October 10, 2008 05:34

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

You're welcome! Always good to help a new user. I use this to sync some folders in my Documents folder and my Scripts folder, as I'm an applescripter. I'm also glad it worked, because I don't have two Macs to test it on at the mo'! – beiju, on October 10, 2008 04:59

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Wow, great tip! Thanks, beiju! I'm still relatively new to the Mac (just over a year without Windoze), and didn't realize the difference between an alieas and a aymlink. I had tried it with an alias, and it didn't work, but it works flawlessly with a symlink. I've got a couple f other apps i want to synchronize this way, too, so your tip has made my life much, much groovier. :) – Wobbly, on October 10, 2008 04:56

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A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

If you really want this, there is a way to do it. If you create a symbolic link using the instructions here http://www.macworld.com/article/58177... to the file com.carpeaqua.checkoff.plist in your Preferences folder, and move it to your DropBox, then rename it whatever you want, sync, and on your other Mac do it in reverse (from DropBox to ~/Library/Preferences), MAKING SURE TO RENAME IT WITH THE ORIGINAL NAME com.carpeaqua.checkoff.plist, it should work. – beiju, on October 09, 2008 23:21

headbirth replied on October 09, 2008 15:20 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

If there's any way to have CheckOff Export only selected items to an RTF(D) file that would be of great help to me or even have a drag and drop export of selected items.

Wobbly replied on October 09, 2008 00:46 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Ability to specify where Check Off data is located.

I'd like to use my Dropbox to sync Check Off data between computers. Sync via MobileMe is fine, but Dropbox works and would require no extra coding to Check Off other than the ability to specify a different location for the data file (which is currently a plist file — your plan to switch to a database in 4.0 would make this easier).

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

I *love* the idea of a strikethrough style for completed tasks. Along that same line, how about the ability to bold certain tasks (the more important ones) and/or use a red text colour? – What@ever, on October 04, 2008 04:06

Graeme replied on October 03, 2008 11:06 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Feature Request...
I don't know whether this has been asked for before, but what I would like to see is the option to apply a 'strike-through' style to completed tasks - I believe this would make it instantly clear which items has been completed.

Fantastic Application too... many thanks for all the hard work.
Kind regards

Graeme
mail @ graememiller.com

Darren replied on October 02, 2008 09:11 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

I like the menu bar integration and global hotkey but I would also like hotkeys for doing other operations, such as a quick hotkey (possibly a global hotkey) to add an item. Iphone integration would be great though most likely impossible. Also, it doesn't work very well with spaces at the moment. Otherwise great work. It's the first to-do application that has been accessible enough that I don't find it intrusive and have to go out of my way to use it. Keep it up :)