Dash­board for iPad

The Life­Topix dash­board on the iPad con­sists of 2 pan­els — the Top­ics panel and a con­sol­i­dated panel com­prised of the What’s Next, Quick Inbox, Recently Updated, and Quick Access panes. Swipe left or right, or tap More > or < More to move between panels.

The title bar appears along the top and the tool­bar appears along the bot­tom. The title bar and the tool­bar remain unchanged no mat­ter which panel is selected.

Tap  in the title bar to bring up the Quick Search box. Type in the Quick Search box to cause the view to update dynam­i­cally to dis­play all Life­Topix items that con­tain the search text. Tap on a result to go directly to the rel­e­vant details view for that item. Note that Quick Search is case insen­si­tive, so a search of “art” will yield the ser­vice provider “Arthur Hansen” as well as the event “Pool Party”.

Top­ics panel

This view con­tains one icon for each of the 12 Life­Topix. Refer to Overview help to learn more about each topic and its functionality.

You can change the order of top­ics in this panel, or hide top­ics so that they are not dis­played. Tap  in the panel tool­bar to reorder or hide topics.

What’s Next

This pane shows upcom­ing date ori­ented items. By default, items with dates in the next 7 days are shown. Tap  in the header for this pane to change the num­ber of days for which to show items. Note that the items that are included in this pane are deter­mined by the Fil­ter options spec­i­fied in My Calendar.

The bot­tom of this pane has an Alerts sec­tion. If alerts exist, a red badge appears at the right side of the Alerts sec­tion header to indi­cate how many alerts exist. Tap  in the Alerts sec­tion header to expand that sec­tion, or tap  to col­lapse it. Once expanded, the Alerts sec­tion includes a sum­mary line for any of the fol­low­ing that exist in LifeTopix:

• over­due tasks
• incom­plete shop­ping lists whose due dates have passed
• unpaid bills whose due date has passed

Tap on any sum­mary in the Alerts sec­tion to reveal all of its items, then tap on an item to view its details view.

Quick Inbox

This pane allows you to cap­ture any kind of infor­ma­tion quickly so that you can pro­vide more detailed infor­ma­tion later as time per­mits. Being able to record your ideas eas­ily in a reli­able sys­tem for later analy­sis rep­re­sents the Col­lec­tion phase of the Get­ting Things Done® (GTD®) method­olgy devel­oped by David Allen.

Tap  to bring up the Quick Inbox new entry box. Pro­vide some text in the Item field, then tap Act by to pro­vide optional date infor­ma­tion. If Act by is set, that date and time will be dis­played in this item’s sum­mary along with the words “Act by”. Tap Soon or Some­day to indi­cate whether the new item should be added to the Soon list or to the Some­day list, then tap Save to save the item.

Tap  in the header for this pane to reorder or delete items in the Soon and Some­day lists.

When you are ready to add addi­tional infor­ma­tion to an item in the Quick Inbox, tap its , then select an item type to con­vert to from the result­ing action panel. Spec­ify the item’s details, then tap Save. Once you spec­ify addi­tional details for an item in the Quick Inbox, its icon will change to the cor­re­spond­ing item type; until then, its icon will be .

Recently Updated

This pane lists the items in Life­Topix which have been cre­ated or updated most recently. Tap on an item to go to its details view.

By default, this list includes all items updated in the last 7 days. Tap  in the header for this pane to change which item types are included in the dis­play, or to change the num­ber of days for which to dis­play updates.

Quick Access

This pane dis­plays all items for which you have cre­ated a quick access shortcut.

A quick access short­cut can be cre­ated for most object types in Life­Topix. To cre­ate a quick access short­cut for an item, tap-and-hold that item until Add to Quick Access appears, then tap Add to Quick Access.

Tap  in the header for this pane to reorder or delete quick access shortcuts.

GTD® and Get­ting Things Done® are reg­is­tered trade­marks of the David Allen Com­pany. Life­Topix is not affil­i­ated with or endorsed by the David Allen Company.