Dash­board for iPhone and iPod touch

The Life­Topix dash­board on the iPhone and iPod touch con­sists of 5 pan­els — Top­ics, What’s Next, Quick Inbox, Recently Updated, and Quick Access. Swipe left or right, or tap Swipe » or « Swipe 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.

If you have set a pass­code lock via Life­Topix Set­tings > My Set­tings, tap  in the title bar to imme­di­ately lock Life­Topix. The badge to the right of the  in the title bar shows the num­ber of Life­Topix alerts; tap the badge to view the alerts.

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

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

The bot­tom of this view 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 view 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  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 sec­tion 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  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 sec­tion 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.