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  1. Connie
    May 16, 2013

    I’m still try­ing to get used to using this app! I find that there are some con­fus­ing things about it but I am really want­ing it to work. My ques­tion is in regards to the cal­en­dar. Is there a way to have an actual sound alarm to remind me of some­thing? For exam­ple, if I have have a bill that I want to remind myself of can I set up a sound alarm to remind me?


    • LightArrow
      May 17, 2013

      Hi Con­nie,
      Thanks for reach­ing out!
      For bills in Life­Topix, we cre­ate two things that give you an audi­ble alarm. Firstly, a local device noti­fi­ca­tion is cre­ated to fire at the date and time spec­i­fied in the “Due” field of the bill. Sec­ondly, a device Cal­en­dar entry is made with a reminder — the tim­ing of the reminder can be con­trolled (how much time before the Due time) in Life­Topix Set­tings by type.
      We hope that helps. Please let us know if you need any­thing else!
      Team LightArrow


  2. Connie Willingham
    Apr 28, 2013

    Im very con­fused with the ship­ping list. When I add an item in ‘All Shop­ping Items’ list and then move the items to another indi­vid­ual shop­ping list I’ve cre­ated and when I’m done I go to delete it from the indi­vid­ual shop­ping list it is also deleted from the All Shop­ping Items list. I’m kind of new to this app and the shop­ping list was the main rea­son I bought it. Please help! Is there a video on how to use the shop­ping list?


    • LifeTopix Support
      Apr 29, 2013

      Hi Con­nie,

      We apol­o­gize for the con­fu­sion. The “All Shop­ping Items” view lists all the shop­ping items that you have cre­ated in Life­Topix regard­less of whether they belong to a shop­ping list or not. If you cre­ate a shop­ping item in the “All Shop­ping Items” view and later add the item to a shop­ping list that same instance of the shop­ping item is asso­ci­ated with the shop­ping list (a copy is NOT made). When you delete a shop­ping item it will be removed from all places that ref­er­ence it.

      We are cur­rently mak­ing major improve­ments to the shop­ping topic to make it more intu­itive and much eas­ier to use. We plan to have these improve­ments avail­able in our next update which we hope to sub­mit to the App Store in a cou­ple of weeks or so.

      Please take a look at a cou­ple of our blogs that describes a sce­nario about shop­ping.
      http://lightarrow.com/secrets-of-power-shopping-with-lifetopix
      http://lightarrow.com/organize-holiday-gifts-and-black-friday-shopping-with-the-lifetopix-app

      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  3. Julianne
    Apr 26, 2013

    I see that there are all kinds of way to track cer­tain types of finan­cial infor­ma­tion. Is there a way to keep track of my fam­ily bud­get on here? I.e. we got a pay­check and set aside x amount into 10 dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories, some to pay monthly bills, oth­ers to save up for large pur­chases, kids’ allowance, mad money, etc. I want to be able to track where my money is and how much is allot­ted for what expense. Can I do that with Life topix? I do it through excel now, but am ready to move to some­thing else or rewrite my excel pro­gram to fix some things that bug me.


    • LightArrow
      Apr 26, 2013

      Hi Julianne,
      Thanks for reach­ing out!
      We are close, and within an update or two will be exactly what you are ask­ing for. Let us explain what we do today on this area, and what we plan to add next.
      Today, in the Finances topic, you can cre­ate accounts, which can have trans­ac­tions. Do let’s say I cre­ate an account called “House­hold Spend Bud­get” and I put $5000 every month. Or bet­ter still, cre­ate a few accounts: “Kids Allowances,” “Sav­ing for Boat”, etc. Today, since we pri­mar­ily sup­port “bank accounts”, the only account type that makes sense today for “bud­get accounts” is Cash. We plan to sup­port “Bud­get” and other account types in future updates. I can then make deposit or with­drawal trans­ac­tions from those accounts at any time I want to track what I have in them. Expenses can also be tied to accounts, and that auto­mat­i­cally deducts from the account bal­ance. And expenses have cat­e­gories, so you can track spend­ing from “House­hold Spend” bud­get accounts.
      That’s all good, but what we don’t have yet, and plan to add in updates in the future, is pri­mar­ily two things: 1. Report­ing if expenses by cat­e­gory, set­ting bud­gets by spend cat­e­gory, etc. 2. A sim­pli­fi­ca­tion of the Finances topic view to make it eas­ier to do bud­get­ing and report­ing with­out hav­ing to go into the Accounts sub topic and Expenses sub topic.
      We are cur­rently tak­ing feed­back from sev­eral users on how they’d like to use this fea­ture and what their needs are. Please feel free to reach out to us here or via email to sup­port @ lightar­row . com (with­out the spaces) if you want to influ­ence these fea­tures to bet­ter suit your needs.
      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


      • Julianne
        Apr 29, 2013

        Thanks for get­ting back to me. I looked into the cash accounts that you were men­tion­ing. I’m glad that there are at least some of those fea­tures available.

        I have large wish list of how my ideal bud­get works. I’m sure it might not every­one wants the same things, but this is what I want:

        I want some forms sim­i­lar to your mul­ti­ple log form that I can choose from. I would love to be able to just pull up a form named “X” for a pay­check and have it already list all of the bud­get cat­e­gories with the amounts I’ve cho­sen pre­vi­ously. In our home, we get paid weekly, so I have dif­fer­ent bud­get amounts for the months with 5 pay­checks ver­sus the months with 4 pay­chekcs. So, it would be awe­some to be able to save these bud­get amounts for later use, even if they are not the amounts inputted in the cur­rent week. As part of this form, it would be great to include the num­ber option you have cur­rently. I haven’t explored the cur­rent bud­get yet to see if you have any forms in there to track by the num­ber inputted. I cur­rently input every­thing into a jour­nal page and then copy and paste the infor­ma­tion into the appro­pri­ate indi­vid­ual cat­e­gory page For exam­ple, a trip to Wal­mart, might be $50 on the credit card, -$40 from the food bud­get, -$10 from the Cloth­ing bud­get, and +$50 into the money saved to pay the credit card bill. I cur­rently num­ber those as trans­ac­tion 111a, 111b, 111c, 111d, etc. and then write that same num­ber on the receipt when I save it. That way I can always find my receipts quickly and I always know where my money went when. Some­thing that makes it so that I can con­tinue to do that would be great. I really like the idea of a jour­nal page for all of the finances. That makes it eas­ier for me to check and see where any mis­takes might be instead of hav­ing to go through every sin­gle page indi­vid­u­ally (and for other things as well.) So, if there was an option to pop­u­late every­thing filled into the finance logs into a finance jour­nal and into their indi­vid­ual cat­e­gories, that would be great. Also, if in the exam­ple that I gave above, there was some­thing to dou­ble check my math for me in the trans­ac­tion and warn me if some­thing looks wrong that would be great, too. Some with the mul­ti­ple log fill in bud­get. When the num­bers change slightly from week to week, some­thing that could say that after you add up all your bud­geted cat­e­gories, there’s still $5.50 unac­counted for to match up with the pay­check amount you entered, etc. Some­times, I also cre­ate extra spread­sheets if I know that a trans­ac­tion may be tax deductable. If, for exam­ple, $40 dol­lars of food from the above Wal­mart Trans­ac­tion counted towards travel expenses for an adop­tion, then I would like some­way of mark­ing that or adding that to it’s own sep­a­rate bud­get page so that when tax time comes around I know which receipts I need to look for.

        Speak­ing of receipts, it may be in your cur­rent finance topic, but I haven’t found it yet. I would love a way to store a copy of the receipt along with the trans­ac­tion for those receipts that I think I may need later (or for all of them if I get adept enough at it, so that I don’t have to keep so many envelopes full of paper in my fil­ing cabinet.)

        And, we don’t need this yet, but as my kids get a lit­tle older, I would love to be able to have a way to have a com­pletely sep­a­rate bud­get for them where they can input their own income, tithing, sav­ings, spend­ings, etc., and not have it be assos­ci­ated with the big fam­ily bud­get, aside from my mak­ing a pay­ment (allowance) or receiv­ing a pay­ment (they broke some­thing…) from them.

        Also, are all of these items search­able? So, if I type in that I bought shoes in that last receipt and then I want to return the shoes, I can just search for the word shoes, find the receipt num­ber, find the receipt more eas­ily, and then take them back to the store.

        If I had the option to do all of these things, that would be fan­tas­tic :)

        I’ve been try­ing out your edu­ca­tion cat­e­gories to see if they will work will for keep­ing a record of home­school­ing, and so far it looks pretty awe­some. I can book­mark to the online math book we’re using and take pic­tures of the com­pleted assign­ments. I also love that I’m able to take a video of my piano teacher play­ing a song dur­ing a piano les­son, take pho­tos of the sheet music, and have audios of my attempts to play the song all in the same spot. There seems to be a bit of a learn­ing curve with the app (like some­times I think you have to hit the save but­ton in mul­ti­ple lev­els to get an item saved and that isn’t always intu­itive, so I had to rein­put a book­mark sev­eral times before I fig­ured out why it didn’t stick), but it def­i­nitely does some pretty cool things.

        Thanks so much,

        Julianne


        • LightArrow
          Apr 29, 2013

          Thanks for this very, very much Julianne! We do have soem sim­i­lar thoughts on the bud­get­ing fea­ture, and these sce­nar­ios help sig­nif­i­cantly. We’ll keep you in the loop!
          Team LightArrow


  4. Anthony
    Apr 23, 2013

    H,
    I con­tinue to be very happy with life­topix but I have two requests:
    1. Could you pro­vide an option to turn off the annoy­ing back up reminder that appears from time to time.
    2. On Tasks you have the fan­tas­tic option to attach text, draw­ing, pic­ture, etc. I use them all the time. I won­der if you could pro­vide the same fea­ture to add the same attach­ments to Appoint­ments, please. That would enable me to insert meet­ing notes directly into the meet­ing appoint­ment where I can eas­ily find them later.
    Thanks very much
    Cheers,
    Anthony


    • LifeTopix Support
      Apr 23, 2013

      Hi Anthony,

      Thank you for reach­ing out to us with your requests.

      We are work­ing on a solu­tion to bet­ter han­dle the pre­sen­ta­tion of the backup reminder mes­sage. We plan to include this in our 6.1 update.
      We also plan to add sup­port for attach­ing more items (such as notes) to an appoint­ment in a future update.

      In the mean­time you can always asso­ciate an appoint­ment with a note by using “Asso­ci­a­tion” sec­tion avail­able from the right side panel.
      Sim­ply tap the “Add” but­ton under the “Asso­ci­a­tion” sec­tion. Select “Note” as the asso­ci­a­tion type. Then tap the note you want asso­ci­ated with
      the appointment.

      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  5. Annie
    Feb 05, 2013

    I have sev­eral cal­en­dars. Is there a way to switch order so mine are on top. My hus­bands appts. cover mine and I can’t see them.
    Thank you for your excel­lent app and great sup­port.
    Ann


    • LifeTopix Support
      Feb 05, 2013

      Hi Annie,

      Thank you for reach­ing out to us with your question.

      If you are talk­ing about the cal­en­dar day view we have fixed the issue where items would com­pletely over­lap each other. This fix is avail­able in the 5.2.1 update which is cur­rently being reviewed by Apple and should be avail­able in the next day or so.

      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  6. Elena
    Feb 01, 2013

    Are you plan­ning to add the abil­ity to color code soon? I am very visual and sort­ing by color is extremely help­ful. Addi­tion­ally I would sug­gest adding icons for cat­e­gories. Thank you! Great Product!


    • LightArrow
      Feb 01, 2013

      Hi Elena,
      We hope to add color by cat­e­gory sup­port either in 6.0 or 6.1 (around March). We were think­ing of allow­ing user spec­i­fied pho­tos to be used as cat­e­gory thumb­nails as well.
      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  7. Gokhan
    Jan 21, 2013

    Is there a how-to video on YouTube?

    If not:
    How can I make my cal­en­dar week start from Monday?

    Can I have my cal­en­dar only show the hours I choose.
    I’m a big fan of the Week Cal App and looks like yours is a good can­di­date to make me migrate :)


    • LifeTopix Support
      Jan 22, 2013

      Hi Gokhan,

      Thank you for reach­ing out to us with your question.

      Life­Topix uses the iOS sys­tem “Region For­mat” set­ting (e.g. Ger­many) to set the cal­en­dar start day. We do not cur­rently sup­port a pref­er­ence set­ting for this but this is some­thing we plan to do in the future. We also plan to sup­port a pref­er­ence set­ting to allow a user to set the hours shown for a week or day in the near future as well.

      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  8. How can I sync my family to my calendar?
    Jan 13, 2013

    We have six adults in our house­hold that need to use the fam­ily cal­en­dar. How can they access this fam­ily cal­en­dar using their own devices?
    We all have either I phones or I pads. Can they Access using their com­put­ers?
    HELP Please. I pur­chased this app think­ing we could all access


    • LifeTopix Support
      Jan 13, 2013

      Hi,

      Thank you for reach­ing out to us with your question.

      Life­Topix does sup­port the sce­nario you described.
      In order to con­fig­ure access to your shared fam­ily cal­en­dar per­form the fol­low­ing steps:

      1. Make sure your shared fam­ily cal­en­dar account is avail­able on your iOS device. (You can add the account through “Set­tings” on your iOS device.)
      2. In Life­Topix go to “My Cal­en­dar” and tap the fil­ter icon (square icon located at the top right just above the cal­en­dar) You will be present with the fil­ter view.
      3. In the fil­ter view make sure your shared fam­ily cal­en­dar is checked so that it will be included in Life­Topix and tap the “Done” button.

      Life­Topix will now include items from your shared fam­ily calendar.

      If you wish to have your Life­Topix data items synced with your shared fam­ily cal­en­dar then you will need to make this cal­en­dar the default device cal­en­dar in LifeTopix.

      In order to con­fig­ure Life­topix to use your shared fam­ily cal­en­dar as the device default cal­en­dar per­form the fol­low­ing steps:

      1. From the dash­board view of Life­Topix tap on the arrow icon located at the bot­tom left of the screen. You will be pre­sented you with a list of actions to choose from.
      2. Tap on the sys­tem icon (gear icon) to access the sys­tem set­tings for Life­Topix
      3. Tap “My Set­tings” from the set­tings view.
      4. Scroll down and tap “Default Device Cal­en­dar”. You will be pre­sented with a list of device cal­en­dars to choose from.
      5. Select the shared fam­ily cal­en­dar from the list.

      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  9. Kim
    Jan 01, 2013

    Is there a way to either add a check­list to an appoint­ment or make an event reoc­cur­ring? I would like to set up a rou­tine that hap­pens every­day and attach a ‘to do’ list to it. In order to get this right now it seems that I have to cre­ate a new event every­day to be able to attach a check­list to it. Any sug­ges­tions? Thanks a lot!


    • LightArrow
      Jan 02, 2013

      Hi Kim,
      We do plan to make events recur­ring in the future. In the recent release, we added a Clear but­ton to check­lists to make it eas­ier to reuse them every day, and also the abil­ity to show spe­cific check­lists (e.g. a “daily rou­tine” check­list) to the Home view as a to do list — you can do that from the check­list detail, or by tap­ping on the + but­ton next to the To do list sec­tion in the Home / What’s Next view. We hope that helps.
      Best regards,
      Tem LightArrow


  10. Jen
    Dec 26, 2012

    Is there a way to change the cal­en­dar each time you sched­ule a task or reminder or event. For exam­ple, I want to sched­ule tasks and events to the fam­ily cal­en­dar (every­one in the fam­ily see this) but want to sched­ule reminders in my per­sonal iPhone calander.


    • LightArrow
      Dec 27, 2012

      Hi Jen,
      Not cur­rently, we do plan to sup­port it ont he future by type as well as by item. For now the only way to do this is by chang­ing the default cal­en­dar in Life­Topix Set­tings tem­porar­ily for some items, and the chang­ing it back.
      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  11. Julie
    Dec 21, 2012

    Hi there,
    This is such a fab­u­lous app. I am not even sure how many apps Life Topix has replaced. I am hav­ing an issue with aver­ages prov­ing cor­rect results. For exam­ple. I take 1 pill a day. I have asked for a daily aver­age so I know quickly how often I have missed. The daily aver­age shows zero. I have 6 entries.
    In another area where I am keep­ing track of water con­sump­tion I again asked for the daily total. Although its two entries of 16 oz it too shows zero.
    Now, to show they’re not all zero, keep­ing a weekly aver­age of hours worked. This month I have aver­aged about 50 hrs a week. The results show a weekly avg of 10.x hours. I have the month of Dec entered.
    I am using this app in an iPhone 4S run­ning iOS6.
    Any thoughts?
    Julie


    • LightArrow
      Dec 21, 2012

      Hi Julie,
      Thank you so much for your kind words!
      We’ll inves­ti­gate the issue and get back to you very soon.
      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  12. Dennis Roach
    Nov 22, 2012

    Hi LightAr­row,
    Firstly the good news, your iPhone app is sim­ply the best app I have ever bought, very well done, I will use it for every­thing. Sec­ondly the bad news, the IMac inter­face is less than poor, to really make this one of the best in the App Store (and it can be) you have to have the same as some other app sup­pli­ers have that is a com­plete app for the Mac. I eagerly await your com­ments. All being said its a great app with room for improve­ment & that’s what mat­ters. Kind regards Dennis


    • LightArrow
      Nov 22, 2012

      Thanks, Den­nis! We really appre­ci­ate the kind words. Yes, we agree with you — we are work­ing on sig­nif­i­cantly improv­ing AirAc­cess early next year, and also sup­port in on Win­dows.
      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  13. Jonathan
    Oct 30, 2012

    I’m a build­ing con­trac­tor and it would be great to be able to email a fil­tered set of tasks to a sub con­trac­tor or sup­plier.
    I’m new to the app so maybe I’m miss­ing some­thing. Great program.


    • LightArrow
      Oct 31, 2012

      Hi Jonathan,
      Thanks for reach­ing out with the ques­tion.
      A good way to orga­nize the project in order to accom­plish what you’ve asked is as fol­lows.
      Let’s say your project is called “North Apart­ment Ren­no­va­tion”. In that project, you can add Ser­vices: for exam­ple, “Dry­wall”, “Elec­tri­cal Wiring”, “Floor­ing”, “Paint”, etc.
      For a ser­vice, you can add a Ser­vice Provider (for exam­ple “Joe’s Dry­wall”). You can add all the tasks for Joe’s Dry­wall in the ser­vice provider detail, for exam­ple: Tear­down, Install, Cleanup, etc. In the detail view for the ser­vice provider, you have access to Email on the side, which emails all the tasks in a for­mat­ted way, and you can select who you email it to.
      Sim­i­larly, you can man­age the tasks for the ser­vice providers for the other ser­vices as well.
      We hope this helps. In the future, we plan to add task groups under a project, as well as view and man­age tasks by task owner. That’s make it sim­pler to do what you want with­out hav­ing to cre­ate ser­vices and ser­vice providers for the project, although many peo­ple pre­fer that approach (man­ag­ing each ser­vice with asso­ci­ated ser­vice provider, with pay­ments, tasks, reminders, appoint­ments, voice notes, pho­tos, etc.).
      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  14. Gmarie
    Sep 26, 2012

    I agree with Jasper. You should make it so we can arrange the order of the cat­e­gories to best suit our needs instead of hav­ing to have it listed alpha­bet­i­cally. Also a way to import infor­ma­tion we have acquired before or out­side of this app would be most help­ful. Very unique and com­plex app though, good job. :)


    • LightArrow
      Sep 26, 2012

      Hi Gmarie,
      Thanks so much for your com­ments! We do have plans to enable reorder­ing of cat­e­gories and other things. Also, we have the abil­ity to import var­i­ous kinds of things from CSV files. More info at: http://lightarrow.com/lifetopix/lifetopix-5–0-help/common-features — we’ll keep mak­ing the import/export fea­tures richer based on user needs!
      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  15. Mark Fuller
    Sep 16, 2012

    It would be great if you sync’d with Apple’s “Reminders” app on the iPad/iPhone. I already have all my tasks and reminders set up in that, and to switch to Life­Topix it looks like I will have to man­u­ally renter them all in that now. Would be great if that were auto­mat­i­cally sync’d like Cal­en­dar is. I real­ize there are a zil­lion Task-type apps out there and you can’t sync to them all, but this one is a native Apple app that comes with the OS.

    Cool pro­gram!

    Thanks!

    Mark


    • LightArrow
      Sep 16, 2012

      Hi Mark,
      It is in our plans to inte­grate with the device Reminders app. It’s a very pop­u­lar request, and we are shoot­ing for the 5.2 update in Octo­ber.
      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow


  16. Jesper
    Aug 26, 2012

    Some­times, after using your Life­Topix, you might want to reor­ga­nize your cat­e­gories a bit, because you found a smarter way to cat­e­go­rize them (main and sub cat­e­gories). Now this is not pos­si­ble, to my knowl­edge, cor­rect me if I’m wrong. Only way to do it now is to “Add” new cat­e­gories or “Edit” (or delete) them, but that can’t be done when there are data entered into them, and you don’t want to loose that entered data. So When I go into “Man­age cat­e­gories” I find two options: Add and Edit
    I would need another func­tion: Move
    With “Move” you should be able to move one cat­e­gory into or out of another, and if it has sub­cat­e­gories and entered data they just fol­low and stay inside.
    How about that? ;-)


    • LightArrow
      Aug 26, 2012

      Hi Jes­per,
      That’s a thought­ful sug­ges­tion. In the cat­e­gory picker (the view that allows you to assign a cat­e­gory to some­thing like a project), we have a New but­ton, which brings up a cat­e­gory detail view that allows you to set the par­ent for that new cat­e­gory. That field is dis­abled in the detail view of exist­ing cat­e­gories for sim­plic­ity. We could poten­tially enable that, so that the par­ent for that cat­e­gory could be changed to some­thing else, effec­tively mov­ing the cat­e­gory (and the hier­ar­chy under­neath it, if applic­a­ble).
      We’ll look at get­ting this in in an update in the near future.
      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow

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