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I am hard at work on Check Off 4, and I am hoping to share a bit more with you all in the coming weeks and months. One issue I'm considering with 4.0 is ditching the menu-bar attachment and making Check Off it's own, small window. This would make it handle Spaces a bit better, allow it to show up in the Dock, work with Exposé and give me a bit more freedom with the user interface.
It'd still be a small app, just not attached to the menubar. How would you feel about this?
I'm getting closer moving full steam ahead on getting a 4.0 version of Check Off built for everyone to enjoy. The original Check Off codebase was built in the 10.2/Jaguar days, so I'm using this opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.
What I'd like to know is the following:
1. What you really like about Check Off 3
2. What you really dislike about Check Off 3
3. What could I add to Check Off 4 that would make it your preferred quick todo list?
Would really like a setting to allow display of events and tasks for multiple days, with the setting allowing how many days in the future to show events/tasks.
I'm liking Check Off so far... a little rough around the edges but on it's way. I came across a functionality issue: After creating a long list of activities, broken out into several submenus and sub-submenus, I accidentally deleted the main parent ( I have a sensitive touchpad ). Unfortunately there seemed no way to undo the action... ⌘-Z didn't work, <esc> didn't work. I eventually had to restore the pfile using Time Machine and redo some of my work.
Was this "stupid user" error, a bug in the program, or a missing feature?</esc>
Once I've created an event I can't select it to edit or delete. I have to open iCal to make any changes? The "undo, redo, cut, copy, paste, select all" options in Edit are grayed out. I bought the product because I thought that was the case since it was demo, but even now it's licensed same issue.
I just installed Today today. There's something wrong with the top bar menu icon. When I left-click it all is fine and Today's window shows up. But when I right-click it the icon turns blue and stays blue and nothing happens. It doesn't really freeze but it looks like it. Then I have to click it again to make it go normal again.
Check Off handles ToDo items more effectively than iCal at the moment. I am using Check Off so that I can carry my Check Off ToDo list with me in iCal on my iPod Touch.
Here is a listing of steps to do this. I export my Check Off list to a text file to my Desktop. Then open iCal and open the exported Check Off list in TextEdit. Then select and drag the text list to the first day of the month in Month, Week, or Day views. It is automatically labelled as ToDo at 12AM or anytime I wish and is part of my iCal calendar.
The Check Off list syncs with your iPhone or iPod Touch beautifully and anywhere else you use iCal. Anytime I update my Checkoff ToDo list, I delete the old one and drag a new one to iCal. If I have a hierarchical project with many steps, I can make a project todo list and drag just that list to any day and time on my iCal calendar.
my firewall tells me that check off continually attemps to use /usr/bin/nmblookup to make UDP network connections to IP numbers 172.16.20.255 and 172.16.202.255. can you explain why that is?
also, it attempted to make a TCP connection to checkoffapp.com when i first launched it, even though i told it i did not want automatic update checking.
software which makes unauthorized use of my internet connection is usually something i try to avoid.
I want tasks with priority "none" to sort to the bottom of the list, like they do in iCal. Instead they are sorting to the top, which means my "do anytime" tasks are pushing my do today tasks out of sight.
Settings for what is visible in the task list and how they are sorted should not be buried into the preferences, but should be driven by icons on the task bar separator (or similar).
I have nearly a hundred Tasks and I want to quickly sort them by due date, priority, calendar etc.
Recently I have noticed that ALL_DAY events are showing up on the wrong dates. Example; Daylight Savings is showing on the 8th on my iCal and did show up on that date in TODAY, but it is still showing up in TODAY on the 9th. This occurred with another event that ended on friday yet still showed up on Sat and Sun. Please help.
The html export for Check off_3.8 is not working as it should, it generates nonsense entries if the text contains letters other than letters from the lower ASCII code. That means, in other words, you can only use the program for text written in modern English. No old English, (with Þ, þ, ð), no French, no German, no Scandinavian with Þ, þ, ð, ý, etc. ... Very bad. I enclose a screenshot so you can see for yourself.
If you can't fix it, I suggest you write clear and unmistakably on the download page that this program is old fashioned and ONLY works with English.
I just downloaded Today, uh, today, and I wanted to first say that I love the product. I was also wondering if a couple things might be possible:
1) the ability to control text size. Some of my to-dos or calendar events can be kind of long, so if they could some how be multiple lines long, that would be great...then I won't have to adjust the window size to read everything.
2) How about a date due or an urgent symbol to indicate those to do items which are past due?
hope these are taken into consideration! Great product! $15 well spent.
As you can see in the picture above, the menu bar icon takes too much space on the right side of it's menu bar icon. The highlighted state illustrates my point more clearly.
Also, the icon itself is slightly too dark for my taste.. Other menu bar icons (e.g. Last.fm, CoverSutra) seem to adopt a slightly lighter shade of grey.
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