Q. What are touchpoints?

Touch­points are the out-of-the-box con­nec­tions that allow rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion to be shared across top­ics in LifeTopix.

For exam­ple, if an event you are host­ing requires you to buy some items,  then you can spec­ify that infor­ma­tion directly while you are defin­ing the event. That infor­ma­tion will then be acces­si­ble from within the event in Life­Topix Events as well as from your shop­ping list in Life­Topix Shopping.

Hier­ar­chi­cal cat­e­gories play a major role in enabling touch­points in Life­Topix. For exam­ples, under the topic Health + Activ­ity, there is a touch­point (Health­care Providers) to Ser­vice Providers of cat­e­gory Health­care and its child categories.

A com­pre­hen­sive descrip­tion of all the touch­points between top­ics can be found on the Life­Topix page of the LightAr­row web site.

4 Comments


  1. RickJ
    Apr 01, 2013

    Is it pos­si­ble to set any alarms for reminders?
    Is it pos­si­ble to set more than one alarm like two alarms?

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    • LifeTopix Support
      Apr 02, 2013

      Hi Rick,

      Thank you for reach­ing out to us with your question.

      We add local Life­Topix noti­fi­ca­tion alerts when cer­tain types are added as well as add an entry in the device cal­en­dar with an alert set as well. We cur­rently only set one alert for an item but we are plan­ning to sup­port mul­ti­ple alerts in the future. Is this the type of alert you are refer­ring to?

      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow

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  2. dan
    Mar 15, 2012

    i think that a “touch point” should be able to link any info to any and all info at any and all times a “con­nect to all data” button

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    • LifeTopix Support
      Mar 16, 2012

      Hi Dan,

      That is an inter­est­ing idea. Every release, we are adding touch­points as we think they make sense.

      The only thing that holds us back from just allow­ing an “every­thing to every­thing” approach that you sug­gest is that Life­Topix can become a bit daunt­ing to the new user if there is too much flex­i­bil­ity. That, and the fact that we have to main­tain an orderly data model so that we can grace­fully han­dle things like release upgrades across mul­ti­ple devices for a user who is using iCloud Sync, etc. mean we have to be very mea­sured in these types of connections.

      Given the fact that some con­nec­tions do not make sense (e.g. no one would con­nect a Host­ing Even to an Attend­ing Event, etc.) we have cho­sen to add them as we go along.

      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow.

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