LifeTopix 7.0 and My.Agenda 2.0 Guided Tour

Team LightAr­row is very excit­ed about our new updates of Life­Topix and My.Agenda. Our new updates include sev­er­al new fea­tures to max­i­mize your pro­duc­tiv­i­ty at home, at work, and while you’re on the go. Keep read­ing to learn how you can take advan­tage of the lat­est fea­tures.

Shopping Improvements

We’re super excit­ed about the Shop­ping topic’s com­plete redesign. I encour­age you to explore this top­ic and expe­ri­ence the new fea­tures for your­self, and I’ll touch on the high­lights here.

The Shop­ping top­ic is now so fea­ture rich, it’s avail­able as a stand-alone app for those who only wish to man­age shop­ping and coupons. You can find the stand-alone app at the Apple App Store (My.Shopping).

You’ll first notice the new view of the Shop­ping top­ic. It’s redesigned to make it eas­i­er to add and view shop­ping items, shop­ping lists, things to sell, gifts for oth­ers, gifts received, coupons, prod­ucts, and sell­ers. You’ll see the shop­ping items, lists, etc. that are due or com­ing due in the What Mat­ters Now “rib­bon” and items you haven’t pur­chased yet in the Open Shop­ping Items “rib­bon.” The plus sign makes it easy to add shop­ping items on the fly from this view. The fol­low­ing image shows the redesigned Shop­ping view.

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LightAr­row apps sup­port mul­ti­ple shop­ping lists for those who pre­fer to man­age their shop­ping into sep­a­rate lists. For exam­ple, you might want to cre­ate back-to-school lists, gro­cery lists, busi­ness list items, home improve­ment items, etc. A great fea­ture includ­ed with the Shop­ping list view is the abil­i­ty to view items by sell­er or cat­e­go­ry. The cat­e­gories you cre­ate are com­plete­ly con­fig­urable by you; there­fore, you might cre­ate cat­e­gories by gro­cery aisle, type of gro­cery item, price lev­el, etc — what­ev­er makes you more pro­duc­tive. You can also view your lists by open or bought items to ensure you’re not return­ing to the gro­cery store, office sup­ply store, or mall to pick up the items that you for­got to pur­chase.

Anoth­er great Shop­ping List fea­ture is the abil­i­ty to share lists via email with a friend, spouse, house­mate or part­ner. They can open a list direct­ly in their Life­Topix or My.Agenda app from their email. Also, if you’ve set up device-to-device sync and both users are shar­ing the same Drop­box fold­er for data, you can share and col­lab­o­rate using the same shop­ping list. The fol­low­ing image shows the redesigned Shop­ping List view.

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Anoth­er great addi­tion is how coupons are man­aged. The coupon man­age­ment is intend­ed to save you time and mon­ey by help­ing you keep track of coupons and their expi­ra­tion dates.

For stores that allow elec­tron­ic ver­sions of coupons, you can take pho­tos of the coupons and access them direct­ly from your app. You can take note of your coupons and add an expi­ra­tion date. When you’ve added a date tag for coupons, you’ll know imme­di­ate­ly when they are going to expire because they will appear in the “What Mat­ters Now” sec­tion of the Shop­ping view as well as the Agen­da view. The fol­low­ing image shows the redesigned Coupon view.

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Notes + Files Improvements

We’re equal­ly excit­ed about the Notes + Files topic’s com­plete redesign. I encour­age you to explore this top­ic and expe­ri­ence the new fea­tures for your­self, and I’ll touch on the high­lights here.

Notes + Files is now so fea­ture rich, it’s avail­able as a stand-alone app for those who only wish to man­age notes, check­list­s/­to-do lists, and online files and notes. You can find the stand-alone apps at the Apple App store (Pro.Notes and My.Notes).

You’ll first notice the new view of the Notes + Files top­ic. It’s redesigned to make it eas­i­er to add and view notes, files, check­lists, and draw­ings. You’ll see the notes and lists that are due or com­ing due in the What Mat­ters Now “rib­bon” and items you recent­ly added or updat­ed in the Recent Items “rib­bon.” The plus sign makes it easy to add note items on the fly from this view. The fol­low­ing image shows the redesigned Notes + Files view.

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The draw­ing capa­bil­i­ties in Life­Topix and My.Agenda have spec­tac­u­lar improve­ments. The draw­ing tools have been com­bined into one con­trol, and a land­scape view is now avail­able. Draw­ing tools include 24 beau­ti­ful col­ors with alpha options; linewidth choic­es; eras­er; clear; undo; print; and email capa­bil­i­ties for draw­ings. Print­ing is also avail­able for notes and draw­ings. Users can now share their draw­ings via Face­book and Twit­ter direct­ly from the draw­ing view.

The fol­low­ing image shows the redesigned draw­ing view.

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People + Services Improvements

If you’re thrilled about the changes to the Shop­ping top­ic and the Notes + Files top­ic, then you’ll also be excit­ed to see the changes to the Peo­ple + Ser­vices top­ic. Peo­ple + Ser­vices can now be your cen­tral por­tal for find­ing infor­ma­tion about and con­tact­ing your friends, fam­i­ly, col­leagues, clients, and ser­vice providers.

You’ll notice that we’ve also updat­ed the view with a “rib­bon” show­ing Recent Items and Groups. The fol­low­ing image shows the redesigned Peo­ple + Ser­vices view.

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Imag­ine the pos­si­bil­i­ties for keep­ing in touch with fam­i­ly, clients, friends, and oth­er col­leagues. From a cen­tral loca­tion, you can see their phone num­ber, email address, birth­day, anniver­sary, notes, asso­ci­a­tion with Life­Topix items, and last Twit­ter and Face­book mes­sage for each of your con­tacts that you’ve set up in Life­Topix or My.Agenda. Instant­ly, you can send a text mes­sage, email, Tweet, or send a Face­book mes­sage. You can keep cat­e­gories — allow­ing you to eas­i­ly find your fam­i­ly mem­bers, clients, or friends by group. And, as always, the con­tacts work with your iOS cal­en­dar.

The fol­low­ing image shows the redesigned Per­son view.

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Dynamic Schedules

When sched­ul­ing tasks, you can now select the option of Dynam­ic. If you choose this option, each task is only cre­at­ed after the pre­vi­ous task is can­celled or com­plet­ed. The Pre-Cre­ate option cre­ates all the tasks at once. The new option, Dynam­ic, is very use­ful for tasks that need to be com­plet­ed in a pre-defined or des­ig­nat­ed order.

Dynamic Schedules

Custom Month Schedules

Cus­tom repeat sched­ules are now avail­able for tasks and appoint­ments (events). After select­ing the month option, you can select spec­i­fied dates or days on which the appoint­ment or task occurs. This is very use­ful for events or tasks that are repeat­ed, but occur on vary­ing days.

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Repeat Schedule Preview

We added a pre­view for sched­ul­ing events, as shown in the image below. This ensures that you’ve prop­er­ly set up a recur­ring appoint­ment, class or meet­ing.

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Copy a Project

Due to pop­u­lar demand, you’re now able to copy a project. The cat­e­go­ry, descrip­tion, and start­ing and end dates are copied to the new project. The fol­low­ing image shows how to copy a project:

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Search

Search­ing has been improved, our apps now search the con­tent of notes, allow­ing you to find impor­tant infor­ma­tion that you’ve added to notes. Also, check­list item titles have been added to search.

Unified Login Management

Life­Topix and My.Agenda include inte­gra­tions for Twit­ter™, Face­book™, Drop­box™, Sky­Drive™, Ever­note®, Too­dle­do®, and Asana™. To make it eas­i­er to enter your cre­den­tials for these apps and ser­vices, we’ve includ­ed a new view for man­ag­ing your login name and pass­word. To find the new view, go to Set­tings and tap Logins for Inte­gra­tions. The fol­low­ing image shows an exam­ple of the new view.

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Near Me / Maps Improvements

The Near Me fea­ture includes sig­nif­i­cant improve­ments. You can now set loca­tions for ser­vice providers, which allows you to bet­ter plan your errands to save time and gas. For exam­ple, you might add loca­tions for your favorite dry clean­ers, gro­cery stores, mar­kets, or oth­er providers — and refer to them in the Near Me view so you can make sure to locate the providers that are close to your cur­rent area while run­ning errands. You will also notice when you’re spec­i­fy­ing loca­tions for providers and oth­er items, that the search has been improved.

Refer to the fol­low­ing image to see an exam­ple of search when I enter the term “gro­cery.”

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Photos, Audio, And Video Clips in My Calendar

You now have the option of view­ing pho­tos, audio, and video clips in My Cal­en­dar. To add or remove the view of these items in your cal­en­dar, tap the fil­ter icon in the upper right of the cal­en­dar to view the screen shown in the fol­low­ing image. Check the box­es for the items that you wish to view.

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Bonus Theme Colors

If you cre­ate an App Store rat­ing from your LightAr­row app, the app will pro­vide you with bonus theme col­ors. The col­ors are a sur­prise; how­ev­er, the fol­low­ing image shows where to start.

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Paid Amount in Bills

When cre­at­ing a bill pay­ment, you can now enter the paid amount. This is use­ful to track when the paid amount is dif­fer­ent than the amount due. The pay­ment list screen dis­plays the due amount along with the paid amount and the pay­ment tem­plate dis­plays the bal­ance.

Full Screen View of Notes Text

We under­stand that many of you would pre­fer to see a larg­er screen ver­sion of your notes; there­fore, we’ve allowed you to do just that. The fol­low­ing image shows the expand­ed screen, and how to col­lapse the screen back to the pre­vi­ous view:

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Smart Conversion

We’ve added the abil­i­ty for you to con­vert your device reminders to tasks and shop­ping items. For exam­ple, you might ask Siri to cre­ate a reminder for pick­ing up milk to cre­ate a device reminder, but this item is bet­ter suit­ed as a shop­ping item. To con­vert it, tap the icon with the three green dots (or) tap and hold the item to pro­ceed with the con­ver­sion. The fol­low­ing image shows an exam­ple of con­vert­ing the item from the Agen­da view.

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Additional Alerts

There are now more options in Set­tings for reminders (alerts) on device cal­en­dar events. The fol­low­ing options were added:

  • Remind 15 min­utes before
  • Remind 30 min­utes before
  • Remind 1 hour before
  • Remind 2 hours before
  • Remind 4 hours before
  • Remind 12 hours before

The fol­low­ing image shows an exam­ple of the new set­tings.

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User-defined Startup View

Now you can define the view that is launched at the time of start­ing your app. You will find this set­ting in the My Set­tings view.

Keep in mind that this set­ting only takes effect when the app is first start­ed; there­fore, you will need to close Life­Topix or My.Agenda and start it again.

Your options include:

  • Home
  • Hot List
  • My Top­ics
  • My Cal­en­dar
  • Recent
  • My Inbox­es
  • My Con­texts
  • Near Me
  • My Apps
  • Engage
  • Set­tings
  • Help Cen­ter

The fol­low­ing image shows how to spec­i­fy the default view:

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Reorder Apps in My Apps

The My Apps view allows you to launch oth­er apps from your Life­Topix or My.Agenda app mak­ing it eas­i­er to launch your favorite apps from one loca­tion. You’re now able to reorder these apps as you please by tap­ping the reorder icon in the upper left, and then drag­ging and drop­ping the app into your pre­ferred order. The fol­low­ing image shows an exam­ple.

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Miscellaneous Improvements

Defect fix­es and speed improve­ments have also been applied to this release, as well as the addi­tions below:

  • Com­ment field added to shop­ping items.
  • When view­ing the cal­en­dar by week, the app auto­scrolls to the first item.
  • Check­lists now include due dates.

We hope this helps you under­stand how to lever­age the new fea­tures in Life­Topix 7.0 and My.Agenda 2.0. Enjoy!

4 replies
  1. Devon Murphy says:

    You guys have the poten­tial for this to be the best app ever made. I have searched, tried, pur­chased mul­ti­ple all in one apps.…but noth­ing that is close to yours. There are things I would LOVE see a true mail inte­gra­tion like Post­box or Out­look. And the cal­en­dar does­n’t seem to quite be there yet…more updates to come?

    Reply
    • LightArrow says:

      Hi Devon,
      Thanks so much for the kind words!
      Our next major update (around the end of Jan­u­ary) brings in some amaz­ing improve­ments, includ­ing inte­gra­tion with email and oth­er things. Also, some cal­en­dar enhance­ments com­ing in this update, and more to come soon after (week and month view enhance­ments).
      We need users like you to keep push­ing us to be awe­some!
      Team LightAr­row
      Austin, Texas

      Reply
    • Team LightArrow says:

      Hi Ricky,

      Thank you for reach­ing out to us with your ques­tion.

      My Inbox is used to quick­ly add items into our app using the GTD method­ol­gy.
      Here is a link to our web­site that talks about out My Inbox fea­ture: http://lightarrow.com/best-practices-for-getting-things-done-capture-and-collect

      In our next update (tar­get­ed for lat­er this month) we have great­ly enhanced the this fea­ture and have made it very pow­er­ful. With the next update you will be able to your access social media, email and web accounts and intel­li­gent­ly col­lect infor­ma­tion from them and act on it.

      Best Regards,
      Team LightAr­row

      Reply

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