PERFORM REGULAR BACKUPS of your Life­Topix data using the Email or Drop­box online backup fea­tures. Always backup before apply­ing updates or before enabling iCloud sync.

You can cus­tomize Life­Topix to opti­mize the way you man­age the infor­ma­tion in your life. Tap  from the Quick Menu to go to the Set­tings view. You can per­form the following:

• My Set­tings — to con­fig­ure set­tings for LifeTopix
• Man­age Cat­e­gories — to cre­ate, edit, hide, or delete cat­e­gories for topics
• iCloud Sync (Tech­nol­ogy Pre­view) — to enable, dis­able, or reset iCloud device-to-device sync
• Email Backup — to email a self-contained file of your core Life­Topix data
• Restore from Inbox — to over­write your core Life­Topix data with the data from a pre­vi­ous email backup
• Online Backup — to backup all your Life­Topix data to an online file service
• Full Online Restore — to over­write all your Life­Topix data with the data from a pre­vi­ous full online backup
• About — to view infor­ma­tion about LifeTopix

Con­fig­ur­ing My Settings

Tap My Set­tings in the Set­tings view. You can con­fig­ure the following:

Email To

Email To con­tains the email address to which your Life­Topix backup is sent when you per­form an Email Backup oper­a­tion. If no value is set, you can­not per­form a Life­Topix Email Backup. Note that the backup file is not encrypted, so con­sider secu­rity when choos­ing the tar­get email address for the backup.

Online Folder

Online Folder con­tains the the cloud loca­tion to which your Life­Topix backup is sent when you per­form a Online Backup oper­a­tion. This loca­tion is a direc­tory on an online file ser­vice such as Drop­box. If no value is set, you can­not per­form a Life­Topix Online Backup. Note that the backup file is not encrypted, so con­sider secu­rity when choos­ing the tar­get cloud loca­tion for the backup.

Pass­code Lock

If enabled, pass­code lock­ing pre­vents unau­tho­rized access to Life­Topix. Tap Pass­code Lock to go to the Pass­code Lock Set­tings view.

• If the pass­code lock fea­ture is not enabled, tap Turn Passs­code On to go to the Set Pass­code view, spec­ify a pass­code and at least one secu­rity ques­tion, then tap Save to enable the pass­code lock fea­ture. If the pass­code lock fea­ture is enabled, tap Turn Pass­code Off to dis­able it.
• If the pass­code lock fea­ture is enabled, tap Change Pass­code to mod­ify your passcode.
• Tap Man­age Secu­rity Ques­tions to enter up to four ques­tion and answer pairs that will grant access to Life­Topix in case you for­get your pass­code. You can set these even if pass­code lock­ing is not enabled.
• Tap Set Time­out to spec­ify how many min­utes should elapse before Life­Topix requires the pass­code to be entered for access. Note: The count­down for this time­out begins as soon as Life­Topix is placed in the back­ground. Since iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2nd gen­er­a­tion devices do not sup­port back­ground mode for apps, your pass­code will be required imme­di­ately when you start Life­Topix on these devices no mat­ter what value you have set for the Timeout.

PIN

If you plan to enter bank and credit card account num­ber infor­ma­tion in Life­Topix, you should make sure that you spec­ify a PIN here. By default, the entire num­ber for each finan­cial account is not dis­played. But on each view that con­tains that infor­ma­tion,  is dis­played to allow you to reveal the pri­vate data. When you tap this icon, you are prompted to enter your PIN.

Enable AirAc­cess

If you plan to run AirAc­cess on a Mac to con­nect to Life­Topix run­ning on this device, you need to set this option to ON. You will also need to enable Wi-FI via your device’s Set­tings, and con­nect to a Wi-Fi net­work before you attempt to estab­lish the con­nec­tion from AirAc­cess to this device.

Max Occur­rences

In some areas of Life­Topix, you can set repeat sched­ules. For exam­ple, when you define tasks, bill pay­ments, events,or occa­sions, you can spec­ify that the item should repeat. The repeat fre­quency you can select includes daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. In addi­tion, you can spec­ify the dura­tion of the repeat sched­ule, which can be a max­i­mum num­ber of occur­rences or a spec­i­fied date. This set­ting allows you to limit the num­ber of instances of any repeat­ing item to safe­guard the per­for­mance of Life­Topix on your device.

Search URL

When you add book­marks to an object, you may find it eas­ier to use a search engine to find your desired URL rather than hav­ing to type in the URL your­self. If set, the Search URL spec­i­fies the start­ing page to load when you are using the browser to define a bookmark.

Cal­en­dar Title

If your device Cal­en­dar has mul­ti­ple cal­en­dars con­fig­ured, Life­Topix can dis­play infor­ma­tion from them and make entries in them. This set­ting allows you to spec­ify in which cal­en­dar entries should be added when you cre­ate date-oriented items in LifeTopix.

Default Reminder On Device

Device Cal­en­dar reminders make sense for cer­tain objects within Life­Topix, and you may want more advance notice for some reminders than for oth­ers. For exam­ple, you may want to be reminded of your trips five days in advance, but only one hour in advance of each task.

You can con­fig­ure these set­tings here. When you cre­ate date-relevant objects in Life­Topix, entries will be added to your device’s Cal­en­dar with reminders set accord­ing to the pref­er­ences you spec­ify here. You can also spec­ify that you want entries added to your device’s Cal­en­dar with­out reminders, or that you don’t want entries added to your device’s Cal­en­dar at all.

Refer to Get­ting Started for impor­tant infor­ma­tion regard­ing this capability.

Man­ag­ing Categories

Tap Man­age Cat­e­gories to go to the Man­age Cat­e­gories view. Each object type with which cat­e­gories are asso­ci­ated is listed. For exam­ple, the project cat­e­gories for the Tasks + Projects topic reside under Projects, and the unit of mea­sure cat­e­gories for prod­ucts in the Shop­ping topic reside under Shop­ping Item Units.

Tap a topic object in the Topic Objects view to go to the cat­e­gory view for that topic object. From there, you can add, change, or delete (user-defined) cat­e­gories. Note that in this release of Life­Topix, the title of pre­set cat­e­gories is fixed, and pre­set cat­e­gories can­not be deleted. How­ever, you can hide pre­set cat­e­gories so that you will not see them (until you mark them not hidden).

You can also cre­ate a new cat­e­gory directly from the cat­e­gory picker in the details dia­log for any instance. For exam­ple, sup­pose you are defin­ing a new event and, after tap­ping Cat­e­gories, you decide that the cat­e­gory you want to asso­ciate the event with is not listed. From that cat­e­gory picker, sim­ply tap  to dis­play the new cat­e­gory details dia­log. When you define a new cat­e­gory through a cat­e­gory picker, the Cre­ate Under field allows you to spec­ify the par­ent cat­e­gory under which to cre­ate the cat­e­gory. If you leave this field empty, your new cat­e­gory is cre­ated at the high­est level of that topic’s categories.

Sync­ing Life­Topix Data Across Devices Via iCloud

If you have an iCloud account and have enabled iCloud via Set­tings on your devices, then you can con­fig­ure Life­Topix to use your iCloud account to keep the Life­Topix data on all your devices in sync. Tap iCloud Sync (Tech­nol­ogy Pre­view) in the Set­tings view to go to the iCloud Sync view. Be sure to read the iCloud Sync online help doc­u­ment to under­stand all the require­ments of this feature.

Back­ing Up And Restor­ing Data In LifeTopix

Life­Topix pro­vides backup and restore capa­bil­i­ties to safe­guard your Life­Topix infor­ma­tion or to move it to another device. You can choose to per­form a backup at any time, such as every day, every week, or after every time that you enter new data. No mat­ter when you do it, it is always a good idea to make fre­quent back­ups of your Life­Topix data.

Email Backup

When you per­form an Email Backup oper­a­tion, all of your core Life­Topix data at that point in time are saved in a file and sent to an email address which you spec­ify. “Core data” is defined as all Life­Topix data except audio clips, pho­tos, videos, and local documents.

Before you can backup your data via email, you must spec­ify an email address in the My Set­tings sec­tion of Set­tings. Then, sim­ply tap Email Backup to ini­ti­ate a backup oper­a­tion. A pop-up dia­log appears indi­cat­ing that a new backup file (“lifetopix.backup.xml”) will be cre­ated and emailed. Can­cel the oper­a­tion, or tap OK to pro­ceed. Tap Send to send the backup to the email as directed.

If your device has no net­work access when you per­form an Email Backup oper­a­tion, the out­go­ing mes­sage is placed in your Out­box. When access to a net­work is restored, this email is sent automatically.

Email Restore

Note: Restor­ing back­ups that were per­formed prior to an update of the appli­ca­tion may not work. There­fore, any time you update the Life­Topix appli­ca­tion from the App Store, you are strongly encour­aged to per­form a sync in iTunes and a Life­Topix Online Backup immediately.

Fol­low these steps to restore a backup:

1. On your device, open the Mail appli­ca­tion and access the account to which the Life­Topix backup was emailed.
2. In the Mail appli­ca­tion, open the email mes­sage con­tain­ing the backup that you wish to restore.Note: By default, only one attach­ment is con­tained in an email, and it is named lifetopix.backup.xml. If you made mod­i­fi­ca­tions to the email mes­sage when you per­formed the backup oper­a­tion, con­sider how those changes might affect these instructions.
3. Tap-and-hold the attach­ment in the email mes­sage. The mail appli­ca­tion will ask you if you want to “Quick Look”, “Open in ‘Life­Topix’”, or “Cancel”.
4. Select “Open in ‘Life­Topix’”, which will invoke Life­Topix and take you to the Life­Topix home view. At this point, your device has placed the backup file in LifeTopix’s pri­vate location.
5. Tap in the Quick Menu, and then tap Full Online Restore . You will see a mes­sage ask­ing you to con­firm that you want to remove all Life­Topix data and restore from the backup file.
6. Tap OK to per­form the restore oper­a­tion. After a short delay, the mes­sage box will go away, indi­cat­ing that the restore has com­pleted successfully.

Online Backup

When you per­form an Online Backup oper­a­tion, all of your device’s Life­Topix data at that point in time — includ­ing your audio clips, pho­tos, videos, and local doc­u­ments — are trans­mit­ted to an online folder which you specify.

Before you can backup your data to the cloud, you must first define an online folder via the Online Fold­ers sec­tion of Online Ser­vices, and then spec­ify that online folder in the Back­ups sec­tion of the My Set­tings sec­tion of Set­tings. Then, sim­ply tap Online Backup to ini­ti­ate a backup oper­a­tion to the cloud. A pop-up dia­log appears indi­cat­ing that a new backup will be per­formed, and that it may take sev­eral min­utes depend­ing on net­work speed. Can­cel the oper­a­tion, or tap OK to pro­ceed. Note: This oper­a­tion is only avail­able when you have WiFi access.

Full Online Restore

When you per­form a Full Online Restore oper­a­tion, all of your device’s Life­Topix data — includ­ing your audio clips, pho­tos, videos, and local doc­u­ments — are replaced with the Life­Topix data from the online folder which you specify.

Before you can restore from the cloud, you must first ensure that the Back­ups sec­tion of the My Set­tings sec­tion of Set­tings is set to an online folder which con­tains the backup you wish to restore. Then, sim­ply tap Full Online Restore to ini­ti­ate a restore oper­a­tion from the cloud. A pop-up dia­log appears warn­ing you that all Life­Topix data will be removed and replaced with the data from the cloud, and that it may take sev­eral min­utes depend­ing on net­work speed. Can­cel the oper­a­tion, or tap OK to pro­ceed. Note: This oper­a­tion is only avail­able when you have WiFi access.

Copy­ing Life­Topix Data From One Device To Another

You can use the online backup and restore fea­tures to accom­plish a one-way copy of your Life­Topix data from one device to another via the cloud. First, per­form an online backup to an online folder from your source device. Then, any device on which you per­form an online restore from that online folder will have its Life­Topix data replaced with the data from the orig­i­nal device.

About

Tap About to dis­play the ver­sion num­ber of Life­Topix run­ning on your device. If you report a prod­uct issue to LightAr­row sup­port, please include the ver­sion num­ber in your correspondence.