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A Day in the Life With LifeTopix

In this video, we’re fol­low­ing Susan who is a busy woman on the go. She’s a wife, mom, and real-estate agent. How does she do it all? She man­ages her time using Life­Topix. Watch the fol­low­ing video to learn how…

You can find Life­Topix at the App Store.

Tran­script

Today, we’re going to be fol­low­ing Susan. Susan is a busy woman on the go. She’s a wife, mom, and real-estate agent. How does she do it all? She man­ages her time using LifeTopix.

Wel­come to Life­Topix. If you’re not famil­iar with Life­Topix, it’s a com­plete pro­duc­tiv­ity app for per­sonal orga­ni­za­tion. With Life­Topix, you can man­age your cal­en­dar, tasks/to-dos, projects, notes, files, health, and much more with its 12 topics. 

Let’s take a look at Susan’s busy sched­ule. We’ll start at the Life­Topix Agenda view. The Agenda view is a high-level view of every­thing that Susan has planned today, tomor­row, and the next 7 days.  This way, Susan always knows exactly what’s on her schedule. 

Also with the handy Agenda view, Susan can also man­age her to-do lists. She sets up a daily check­list so she makes sure she hasn’t for­got­ten anything.

And if there’s some­thing Susan doesn’t want to see, she can eas­ily fil­ter it out.

Susan has sev­eral ways of view­ing her busy sched­ule on her cal­en­dar. She can view it by Day, Week, Month, and Year. And once again, handy fil­ters let her decide what she wants to see.

The Near Me view makes plan­ning your day very con­ve­nient because you can see exactly where all of your items for the day are located. You can tap the pin for more infor­ma­tion, or you can dive into the details by tap­ping here.

Let’s dive into some of the details of Susan’s sched­ule. Some­times Susan is required to drive the kids to school via car­pool. So she set up a recur­ring appoint­ment. She has not set up the loca­tion yet, but it is easy to do. If you tap here, select Specify/Show on Map, Add the Address, or just the name of the school, Search — it will auto­mat­i­cally find the loca­tion for you and you can save it and refer to it at a later time.

Susan is a very fit and healthy woman and it’s impor­tant to her to exer­cise and eat right. I’m going to show you how she logs her calo­ries and work­outs each day. By choos­ing the Quick Add here. And then choos­ing log form, you can see the dif­fer­ent log forms that she’s set up. One is for Activ­ity, One is for Calo­ries, and the next one is for her Daily Med­ica­tions. When she wants to log her activ­ity, she sim­ply taps here, enters in the infor­ma­tion, let’s say she did the tread­mill for an hour today, and saves it and it’s logged for the day. It works the same way for calo­ries and daily medications.

Dur­ing lunch, Susan has set up an ini­tial appoint­ment with her Inte­rior Designer for her home remod­el­ing project. She sees her appoint­ment is not con­firmed so it’s easy to give Tad a call by tap­ping here and find­ing his con­tact information.

Susan has set up her home remod­el­ing project as a Life­Topix project. When she meets with Tad, she will want to make sure she has some notes. Tad might have a blue­print that she can eas­ily add, by adding a file here. 

It looks like Tad has brought his sketches. What’s great is Susan can attach them to her remod­el­ing project in a PDF format.

Susan is also fur­ther­ing her edu­ca­tion by get­ting cer­ti­fied as a real estate bro­ker. What’s very impor­tant for her is get­ting cer­ti­fied, so she’s set up a bro­ker cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in her Edu­ca­tion topic in Life­topix. Today she has a test sched­uled, so she has sched­uled that as a task. In addi­tion, she’s added notes to this so she can make sure to study for this quiz. She can also use Ever­note to sync notes back and forth from Life­Topix to Evernote.

Last but not least, Susan has set up din­ner with her fam­ily. Let’s go back to the My Cal­en­dar view and take a look at that. Here’s the appoint­ment. She can eas­ily tap here and see where to find the restau­rant. But what’s really impor­tant to Susan is shar­ing her remod­el­ing notes for col­lab­o­ra­tion with her hus­band. All she needs to do is tap here and send her hus­band this note via email. He can import this note directly into Life­Topix or he can open it.

I hope you found our “day in the life” help­ful to give you an idea of how you can lever­age Life­Topix in your own busy life. 

2 Comments


  1. Jacob Reeder
    Mar 20, 2013

    Hi — First, I want to say that I like the afford­abil­ity of your app and I hope it’s to encour­age us to give you lots of feed­back. I want to let you know that I strongly pre­fer that you offer a land­scape view mode. Also, when I tried play­ing the above video on my iPhone and streamed through air­play, it timed out when the screen lock kicks. This doesn’t hap­pen with other videos that I play instream through airplay.

    Although I bought this app a while ago, I still find it extremely dif­fi­cult to use. I intend to be very con­struc­tive with my com­ments, so I’ll let you know that I don’t have a lot of time to fig­ure things out. It has to be very very easy to use. And I find your app very dif­fi­cult. I’m not sure if it’s the design or the lack of under­stand­ing with and help doc­u­ments. I’m a very busy per­son with school and lots of doc­tors appoint­ments. Plus I like to work out an awful lot. I feel that your app has the poten­tial to really help me, but I’m just not sure how to really use your app and I find it very dif­fi­cult to fig­ure out.

    Also, it seems like I’m con­stantly hit­ting a “back” but­ton. How come I can’t eas­ily get to the home screen or pre­vi­ous sec­tion head­ing? Or is there a way to get back eas­ier? Some­times tap and hold­ing a but­ton in other apps allows an eas­ier experience.

    Lastly, your app appears to be slow. It does not indi­cate that it’s think­ing, so I’m not sure if it’s a bug. But espe­cially when using the help sec­tion, or when cre­at­ing a new appoint­ment and adding details and hit­ting “save”… I noticed there is lag time.

    I look for­ward to any enhance­ments your app will have. I intend to use this and pro­vide feed­back to help you and other users. I appre­ci­ate you let­ting me pro­vide comments.

    Yours,
    Jacob


    • LightArrow
      Mar 20, 2013

      Hi Jacob,

      Thank you for reach­ing out to us!

      We do have full land­scape sup­port on the iPad, and on the iPhone, we do plan to enable land­scape mode for media files, doc­u­ments and our health and activ­ity graphs and plots. We will look into the Air­Play issue related to the time­out screen lock.

      You are right about the need to make our app sim­pler to use. We have been improv­ing it over time, and also devel­op­ing more videos to give short exam­ples of how to use var­i­ous fea­tures. We do a lot more than overly sim­plis­tic list and note apps, so it is always a chal­lenge to improve usabil­ity with­out com­pro­mis­ing its power. Feel free to sug­gest spe­cific things that are dif­fi­cult to use, and we will work hard to improve those areas — we will also con­tinue to improve the usabil­ity and respon­sive­ness in general.

      Agree with you on the back but­ton issue — we do show a dash­board icon in the cen­ter of the bot­tom tool­bar in var­i­ous views — tap­ping on that brings you to the top level. Also, we do plan to sup­port a swipe from bot­tom to bring in a tool­bar to go to the home view.

      We have made some speed improve­ments in our 6.0.1 update that we hope is avail­able next week.

      Please keep send­ing us feed­back like this. We are for­tu­nate to have thought­ful users like you. We will work our hard­est to keep improv­ing the app. We love what we do and we hope to delight our users with many use­ful things over time.

      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow

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