This topic is included in LifeTopix and is available as an in-app-purchase in My.Agenda.
The easier it is to manage all the information about what you want to get done, the more productive you will be. Tasks + Projects gives you the ability to enter, organize, prioritize, track and check off even the most complex tasks and projects in the most streamlined, natural, and easy-to-understand way imaginable. Because you can tie this in to other related information you have already entered into other areas of the app — such as events or trips you are planning, education assignments or health procedures — you don’t have to re-enter information in multiple places in separate applications like you would have to with other products. Even better, you can create tasks and projects directly from within the context of those other topics. It is a better way to manage all your activities and a more efficient way to get through them.
Get more done with Tasks + Projects.
Tasks + Projects Touchpoints
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Tasks: Task lists, calendar, filters: quickly track and act on associated tasks. |
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People + Services: Services, Service Providers: associate services utilized, and the providers for those services |
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Media: Photos, video clips, audio clips: easily manage all associated media |
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Shopping: Products, stores, shopping lists: manage all associated shopping |
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Notes + Files: Notes, device/online files: directly associate and create notes, and attach and associate files |
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My Calendar: Complete daily agenda, month/list views: all date relevant items in one place |
Sam
Hi again,
We can now define task time by entering a number. It would be even better if you could include a simple task completion percentage slider.
You could also have an effort scroller to indicate easy, medium, heavy.
LifeTopix Support
Hi Sam,
Thank you for reaching out to us.
We appreciate your suggestions as we are always looking into ways to improve the user experience in the app.
Best Regards,
Team LightArrow
Yanko
Hi,
When I open the app on my IPad 2, IPhone 4 or IPod touch a message that reads “loading data” appears and the app dont open..have to close and open the app to make it work..but sometimes I have to do this more than once..its frustrating.
LightArrow
Hi Yanko,
We truly apologize for this. We are aware that this does affect some users at times when iCloud sync is enabled. We made some fixes for it in the 5.1.1 update, and are looking into finding the cause to make additional fixes. We are unable to reproduce it easily, but the development team is working hard on this issue to make sure it works smoothly for all users.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow
Jere
Any plans or changes to sync tasks between Things and Lifetopix (like with Google tasks and Toodledo)?
LightArrow
Hi Jere,
We are always looking for other apps to integrate with. The apps that have an online component (Evernote, Toodledo etc.) provide the necessary interfaces to apps like us, so that we can integrate with them. We’ll investigate to see if Things has an online component, and provides the facilities needed for us to integrate with it.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow
Micah
I’m starting to get notifications for tasks that are complete. That wasn’t happening before, right? Is this a bug?
LightArrow
Hi Micah,
You are correct. It’s a bug that is fixed in the next update.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow
Lanette h
Hi I am very new –is there some where very simple and basic to go to to learn how to use this — the idea of it is exactly what I have been searching for !! Even tried to invent it myself (ha ha) anyway I see so much potential here BUT don’t have a clue how to use it !!!!!! Thanks, Lanette
LightArrow
Hi Lanette,
We have some online resources on the website that you might find useful:
Videos: http://lightarrow.com/lifetopix/videos
Blog posts, soem with usage examples: http://lightarrow.com/blog
Tips and Tricks: http://lightarrow.com/lifetopix/tips-and-tricks
We hope that helps. In Online Help, the Overview section is very useful as well: http://lightarrow.com/lifetopix/lifetopix-5–0-help/overview
BEst regards,
Team LightArrow
marcel
Hi,
I seem to be missing (or overlooking) a feature to attach an existing appointment tto my projects or other objects.
E.g. — today I created an appointpemnt with a service provider. But — I also have a project to which that very same appointment needs to be attached. Can this be done?
NExt — I planned a holiday and the site sent me a calendar fileto import. That works fine, but I cannot attach it to a holiday project. Or do I miss something?
Cheers
LightArrow
Hi Marcel,
Once a LifeTopix appointment has been associated with one topic item (for example, a service), you can only change its association to another topic item (like a project) via the appointment detail view’s Association section. It currently cannot be associated with multiple items at the same time.
Regarding the second question, you can tap and hold on the device calendar item in the My Calendar view to create a LifeTopix appointment out of it. Then you can use its Association section in the detail view to associate with your holiday project in LifeTopix.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow
Kate
I’m new to LifeTopix and am still trying to figure-out what I can do with it — thanks for a great product. I can *almost* use Tasks/Projects or Events for meal-planning. For example, create a catagory under Projects called “Meal Plans”, and items under that like “Tuna Casserole”. I’m looking for the ability to select several meal plan items that I want to have soon, and have the shopping items associated with them (2 cans tuna, white rice, peas, etc.) added to my shopping list. This part can be done. The only thing missing is the ability to keep those shopping items associated with that Project/Task for future use. Currently, if I delete the tuna from my shopping list, it’s no longer associated with the “Tuna Casserole” item. I’d like to be able to configure the “Meal Plans” project (only) to save its shopping items so I don’t have to re-think my shopping list for a meal item every time I choose it.
LightArrow
Hi Kate,
One thing that mau help — when viewing the shopping list, if you choose the “Open” tab, it hides the checked off items. So instead of deleting shopping items, if you check them off, they will not show up. And later, when you want them back again, you can go to the “All” tab, and uncheck them to make them active again. We hope this helps.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow
Louis
Im using this app is good. A little suggest for the app, if I completed a task,hope can take off the task from ” what to do next” list.
LightArrow
Hi Louis,
Thank you for using LifeTopix. We agree with your suggestion. We’ll add that to our roadmap to deliver in an update in the near future.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow
David Stowell
Hi, it’s great using your app! In a future update could it be possible when adding an appointment to be able to select which Device calendar the appointment is added to rather than just set a default one in settings?
Thanks
LifeTopix Support
Hi David,
We’re so pleased that you are enjoying LifeTopix!
We agree that be able to specify which device Calendar items get added to (vs. a single “default”) would be a good idea. We are hoping to get that feature in to a release later this summer.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow.
Lew Payne
I notice that when I set an [appointment] using LifeTopix (the appointment is related to a particular project in this case), it appears on my Calendar… but when creating the appointment, I do not have control over when the reminder should chime me. I also cannot set a “1st” and “2nd” reminder for the appointment, without going into the default iPhone calendar and setting them manually. Can you PLEASE integrate the existing iPhone calendar features into your product?
I would like to be able to control “1st” and “2nd” reminder chime times for an appointment (or task with a due date), at the time I create/enter the task or reminder. Having a “default” reminder time in your [settings] is okay, but some tasks and appointments require a longer or shorter reminder period, depending on where they are (e.g., an appointment that requires 2 hours of driving to get to). Thank you.
LifeTopix Support
We agree that these would be very nice features to add to LifeTopix. We have added that as a feature to implement in a forthcoming release.
Hopefully Apple gives us what we need in order to allow a LifeTopix user to be able to specify a 2nd reminder.
Lew Payne
Is there a way of setting up dependent projects (and tasks)? For example… a “home repair” project might have three tasks… “patch holes,” “prime drywall,” and “paint walls.” One cannot be done before the other. I can set a due date on the first item, but I’d also like to set “relative” due dates on the next two items. For example… Oct 1st for “patch holes” and then “1 week after” for “prime drywall” and then “one week after” for paint walls. Completing item #1 would automatically activate the due date for item #2, and once item #2 was done, it would activate the due date for item #3.
The same applies to projects… I may not be able to commence my “build airplane” project until I finish the “build airplane hanger” project, and so on.
Thank you.
LifeTopix Support
We have plans to add support for subtasks, and that will include the ability for you to be able to specify dependencies.
We don’t have a timeframe for this support yet, but it is very high priority for us so we hope to be able to begin working on it very soon.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow.
Yoav
Hi
I love the integrated philosophy, great product.
However, taksk lists are allways difficult to use when you have parallel projects. I find that setting a due date for things is useless because it is hard to follow and maintain everything.
A very useful feature for tasks and projects that I find makes the difference is the ability to create a flexible timeline with milestones for projects that have a sequential structure (not just a collection of tasks) . Using a simple Gnatt interface you can see all the projects in parallel, set and update dates for milestones. the detailed tasks can be associated with a milestone and not be detailed in the Gnatt chart (maybe only as a completion percentage). This way, you can drag the dates of the milestones etc.
another thing that can be helpful is a focus view — I usually spend a few minutes every evening going over everything, deciding what to do tomorrow. it would be helpfull if there will be a way to flag things, and have a work view in which I see only the flagged items.
This can be done at several level — at the end of each month decide what to do next month. out of that list, in the end of each week decide what to do next week, and out of that list, at the end of each day decide what to do tomorrow. I work this way and it is very helpful.
Y
LifeTopix Support
Hi Yoav,
Thanks very much for your thoughts and feedback.
We have a lot of similar ideas for ways to make managing tasks more powerful and flexible. Stay tuned to our roadmap for the exciting news on that front as it develops!
Best regards,
Team LightArrow.
Keith
Hi LifeTopix. I now use LifeTopix for all my work tracking and have a couple of thoughts.
Recurring tasks where the next task is only created once the current task is completed.
Ability for tasks to have sub tasks as I have some tasks that I don’t really want to make projects out of but would like to break into some smaller tasks and have them contained. I have tried using a dated note and had the related tasks under the note. Maybe a task can have other tasks,notes, checklists etc? But then they are projects disguised as notes to achieve subtasks.
LifeTopix Support
Hi Keith,
Thank you for submitting your ideas and requests.
Regarding the ability to set up a recurring task whereby the next task instance doesn’t get generated until the current task is completed: we think that is an interesting idea. We’re going to give that some thought as to how we might be able to work that into the existing product design.
As for subtasks, that is already something on our list to be added to the product. We don’t have a firm date for it yet, but we should be able to get to that soon.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow.
AlexE
Does LifeTopix support my existing Google Calendars so I don’t have to re-enter the information?
LifeTopix Support
Not yet, but we do plan to add Google tasks and then calendar integration this year. We’ll update our roadmap page with a timeframe once we have completed our effort assessment.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow
Verch
Do you have subtasks already?
LifeTopix Support
Hi Verch,
We do not currently support subtasks, but we do have that in our product plan.
As soon as we have that scheduled, we will update our roadmap accordingly.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow.
Crig
How indepth is the project functionality? I need to track parent, dependent and sibling tasks all associated with a multitude of projects, both big and small (like MS Project). Can indi that clearly and easily using lifetopix or is the program more constrained to single level task management?
Sounds like a great tool if…
LifeTopix Support
Hi Crig,
We do not currently support hierarchical tasks and task dependencies. It is in our plans. We add a lot of depth to the project data (beyond tasks) by making it easy to associate other related data such as media files, notes, documents, shopping, checklists, reminders, etc.
We welcome user feedback in prioritizing new features, and hierarchical tasks are being requested by our peer users, so we plan to implement that hopefully in the next few releases (we do a feature release every 4–8 weeks).
Best regards,
Team LightArrow
Wes
Can you share tasks between other users or even lists (shopping, etc.)? Very interested in doing some sort of collaborative effort between users, assigning tasks to others or at least knowing when one person completes a part of the task.
Also, does the program allow you to enter sub tasks?
LightArrow
Hi Wes,
We do not support subtasks yet. It is in our plans.
We support sharing of tasks and various items via email. The details can be found under the page: http://lightarrow.com/lifetopix/online-help/common-features
Over time, we plan to further enhance collaboration between users.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow
Jen
How does this app work w/ my current calendar which is synced with my exchange account? Thanks!
LifeTopix Support
Hi Jen,
LifeTopix allows you to automatically add entries to your device calendar for date-relevant items in LifeTopix such as trips, visits, tasks, projects, etc. (regardless of what else your device calendar is synced with). Also, its My Calendar view allows you to view your device calendar entries along with all LifeTopix date-relevant items. More info at: http://lightarrow.com/lifetopix/common-questions/lifetopix-data-on-other-calendars — hope you enjoy using LifeTopix!
Best regards,
Team LightArrow
Jason
I’m considering switching over to Life Topix as a more comprehensive planner, but was wondering about repeating task.
How are they handled? Can task be set to repeat an infinite amount of times? Can they be set to repeat from the due date or is it only by completion date?
Thanks for your help in advance.
LifeTopix Support
Hi Jason,
Yes, LifeTopix supports repeating tasks and goes by the due date for creating them. The maximum repeat number is configurable from Settings — it can be set to 12, 24, 36. or 48, and the intervals are daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.
We welcome suggestions from our users to evolve the features.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow