To do first

1. Pro­tect your data
   You can secure Life­Topix with a pass­code to pre­vent unau­tho­rized access. You can also set a PIN so that infor­ma­tion in Life­Topix such as finan­cial account num­bers will not be dis­played until you enter the PIN. Refer to Set­tings help to learn more.
2. Con­fig­ure accounts
   When you track bill pay­ments in Life­Topix, you can include every­thing about those pay­ments, includ­ing accounts from which they are paid. Because you prob­a­bly pay mul­ti­ple bills from each account, you should cre­ate bill-paying accounts in Life­Topix before defin­ing any bills or ser­vices. Refer to Finances help to learn more.
3. Con­fig­ure sell­ers that you buy from and prod­ucts that you buy
   To tap and add items to a shop­ping list with­out dis­tract­ing side­steps, you should con­fig­ure the sell­ers you use most and the prod­ucts you typ­i­cally buy. Life­Topix pro­vides pre­set sell­ers and prod­ucts, which should help you quickly and eas­ily con­fig­ure the ones you need. Refer to Shop­ping help to learn more.Note: All ser­vice providers that you define with a cat­e­gory of Seller will auto­mat­i­cally be avail­able from any list of Sell­ers in shop­ping lists, asset details, etc.
4. Con­fig­ure logs for things you want to track
   Life­Topix pro­vides robust log­ging that enables you to track per­sonal met­rics and infor­ma­tion, includ­ing your phys­i­cal activ­i­ties, nutri­tional intake, med­ica­tion and vit­a­min intake, health sta­tis­tics, and well­ness sta­tus. Pre­set cat­e­gories are pro­vided for you, but you should tai­lor these logs to your needs. Delete logs that you won’t track, and cre­ate logs for things you will track but that don’t already exist. That way, you can track exactly what you care about most effi­ciently. Refer to Health + Activ­ity help to learn more.
5. Cus­tomize Life­Topix to suit your pref­er­ences
   Cus­tomiza­tion options let you opti­mize Life­Topix for your own needs. Refer to Set­tings help to learn more.

What you need to know

• Life­Topix and your device’s Cal­en­dar
  When you cre­ate a Life­Topix object that is asso­ci­ated with a date, such as a task, project, edu­ca­tion assign­ment, or event, an entry for that object is added to your device’s default Cal­en­dar. For exam­ple, if you cre­ate a trip that starts on March 3rd and ends on March 6th, Life­Topix adds an entry for this trip to the Cal­en­dar on March 3rd with a dura­tion of three days. Date-related changes made to Life­Topix objects are reflected auto­mat­i­cally in your device’s Calendar.To remind you of the source of any entry Life­Topix adds to your Cal­en­dar, the title of these entries looks like this: Title [Life­Topix]. For entries that Life­Topix adds to your Cal­en­dar, a reminder alarm is set accord­ing to your Life­Topix set­tings. This means that you can con­trol if and when an alarm is gen­er­ated in advance of the date and time of a Life­Topix object. Refer to Set­tings help for more information.Note that your device’s default cal­en­dar is spec­i­fied in your device’s Set­tings via Set­tings > Mail, Con­tacts, Cal­en­dars > Default Calendar.
• Reminders and your device’s time zone
  Beware that your device may have two dif­fer­ent time zone con­fig­u­ra­tion set­tings — one for the device itself, and a sec­ond one for Mail, Con­tacts, Cal­en­dar. Reminders cre­ated in your device’s Cal­en­dar by Life­Topix will adhere to the time zone set­tings you have con­fig­ured in your device for Mail, Con­tacts, Calendar.
• Device-to-device sync via iCloud
  You can use your iCloud account to sync Life­Topix data across your devices auto­mat­i­cally. Because iCloud is a new and evolv­ing tech­nol­ogy, this fea­ture is a “tech­nol­ogy pre­view” in this release of LifeTopix.You can access iCloud Sync via Life­Topix Set­tings. To read the online help for iCloud Sync, tap Life­Topix Set­tings, then tap iCloud Sync (Tech­nol­ogy Pre­view), then tap Read This First.
• Cat­e­gories
  Some top­ics nat­u­rally lend them­selves to hier­ar­chi­cal cat­e­gories. For exam­ple, when you think about a project you want to sched­ule or a task you want to remem­ber, you might think of them in the con­text of cat­e­gories, such as work, fam­ily, out­door activ­i­ties, or health. Or, if you con­sider ser­vices you receive, they tend to fall into the cat­e­gories that define how you use them, such as edu­ca­tion, finances, or travel. But some top­ics are bet­ter asso­ci­ated with objects or dates instead of cat­e­gories. For exam­ple, if you track all your bill pay­ments, you prob­a­bly orga­nize those by account and date. Or, if you are log­ging nutri­tional intake, you might orga­nize those by food or drink item.Pre-defined hier­ar­chi­cal cat­e­gories are avail­able in the main view of the top­ics for which cat­e­gories make sense. These include Tasks + Projects, Peo­ple + Ser­vices, Home + Assets, Edu­ca­tion, Notes + Files, and Book­marks. These pre­set cat­e­gories serve as hyper­links — when you select a cat­e­gory and then tap , the cat­e­gory is auto­mat­i­cally set in the def­i­n­i­tion of the new object. Of course, you can change a cat­e­gory assign­ment at any time.Categories are cus­tomiz­able, which means that you can add, mod­ify, delete and hide them. Hid­ing a cat­e­gory will cause it not to appear in any view unless you have defined at least one object to have that cat­e­gory. You can man­age the cat­e­gories for a topic directly from that topic’s main view, or you can man­age the cat­e­gories for all top­ics in Settings.
• Repeat sched­ules
  Date-oriented Life­Topix objects such as tasks, projects, events, and bill pay­ments can be con­fig­ured to repeat. When you define or edit one of these objects, you will see the option for set­ting a repeat sched­ule. This enables you to set the repeat fre­quency (num­ber of hours, days, months, or years) as well as the dura­tion (num­ber of occur­rences or until end date).If you spec­ify a start­ing date for a repeat sched­ule but no repeat fre­quency or dura­tion, a “Repeat fre­quency not spec­i­fied, do you wish to con­tinue?” mes­sage appears when you save the sched­ule. If you tap OK, the sched­ule is set to occur only once with no repeat.You can spec­ify the max­i­mum num­ber of allow­able repeat instances for an object. Out-of-the-box, the default is 12. Refer to Set­tings help for more information.
• Near Me fea­ture and Loca­tion Ser­vices
  The Near Me fea­ture in Life­Topix requires that Loca­tion Ser­vices be turned ON in your device Set­tings. It also requires that Loca­tion Ser­vices for Life­Topix be turned ON in your device Settings.
• Back­ups
  As a sup­ple­ment to the sync capa­bil­ity of iTunes, Life­Topix pro­vides a backup and restore util­ity to help you fur­ther safe­guard your Life­Topix data. You can choose to per­form a backup at any time, such as every day, every week, or every time that you enter new data. It is always a good idea to make fre­quent back­ups of your Life­Topix data. Refer to Set­tings help for more infor­ma­tion. Note that until Apple’s strat­egy regard­ing MobileMe becomes clear, it is rec­om­mended that you per­form your Life­Topix online back­ups using Drop­box instead of MobileMe.