Easily Utilize the Repeat Schedule Functionality in LifeTopix

8 Comments

1. 
   Bobbi
   

   May 15, 2013

   I just got your app and see its great poten­tial. I may have missed this in the instruc­tions, so bear with me. I use reminders to remem­ber to take med­ica­tions and would like to set this as a repeat­ing reminder (as opposed to a task or appoint­ment). Is this pos­si­ble or wii that becom­ing in an update? Or is this fea­ture part of one of the Top­ics avail­able for purchase?

   Thanks!

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   • 
     LightArrow
     

     May 16, 2013

     Hi Bobbi,
     Thanks for get­ting our app and reach­ing out to us! You don’t need any in-app-purchases for what you have asked for. One way to do what you ask for is to cre­ate a recur­ring item in the device Reminders app (which is inte­grated into our app’s Agenda and My Cal­en­dar views). ANother way is to use a check­list in the Agenda view (added as a To Do list), some­thing you call “Daily Med­ica­tion” and check off the ones you take. You will need to use the Clear but­ton in the check­list to clear all items in the morn­ing so that you can check them off again as you go. We plan to enhance that fea­ture to make it auto-clear at the begin­ning of the day, and allow you to see pre­vi­ous days’ entries. Sort of a rolling daily list or weekly list fea­ture. We hope to do that in the next few weeks, and it’ll be part of the free update.
     Best regards,
     Team LightArrow

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2. 
   Joe Strollo
   

   Apr 19, 2013

   When set­ting up a repeat­ing event such as a monthly bill, I set the num­ber of occur­rences to 12. Is this a sta­tic 12 or a dynamic one? For exam­ple, I have 12 pay­ments setup for my elec­tric bill. After I enter one, will I then have only 11 pay­ments left or will LT real­ize that I’ve paid one and add another one to my cal­en­dar to bring my total num­ber of future occur­rences back to 12?

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     LifeTopix Support
     

     Apr 19, 2013

     Hi Joe,

     Thank you for reach­ing out to us with your question.

     The num­ber of occur­rences cre­ated when a repeat sched­ule is con­fig­ured is sta­tic. When a repeat sched­ule is con­fig­ured to repeat with 12 occur­rences then when the sched­ule is saved 12 occur­rences are cre­ated for that item and no more unless you recon­fig­ure the sched­ule and re-save.

     The con­cept of a dynamic repeat sched­ule, as you describe, is some­thing we have planned for a future update.

     Best regards,
     Team LightArrow

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3. 
   Andrea
   

   Apr 02, 2013

   I sec­ond LB’s Mar 02 sug­ges­tion for bet­ter speci­ficity of monthly repeat­ing events/appointments. I use this fea­ture very fre­quently (on my PC) when set­ting up events. Thanks!

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   • 
     LightArrow
     

     Apr 03, 2013

     Andrea,
     We agree as well! We’ll get it done in the next update or two (6.1 or 6.2).
     Team LightArrow

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4. 
   LB
   

   Mar 02, 2013

   I am lov­ing this app so far! I was look­ing for some­thing that would help me get and be orga­nized with all aspects of my life and this one does just that. I have found some areas that don’t quite work for me and wanted to make sug­ges­tions that would improve it for my use (and hope­fully oth­ers too).

   The first is the repeat sched­ule. I have a ser­vice provider that requires the 2nd and 4th Tues­day of each month, not a spe­cific date. I’ve also had in the past set meet­ings on the 1st Mon­day of each month. Can you imple­ment these kinds of a cus­tomiz­able options? Exam­ples: For daily recur­rence you select the days as you have now or the option of every x days, with x being a numer­i­cal value entered (every 3rd day). For monthly recur­rence you select num­ber of months but also have the fol­low­ing: Choose the option of spe­cific day (27th) or the option of Every/First/Second/Third/Fourth/Fifth/Last fol­lowed by M/Tu/W/Th/F/Sa/Su/DayofMonth (2nd Wed or Every Sat).

   I am try­ing to use the Notes sec­tion and unfor­tu­nately I can’t edit a note that was already added pre­vi­ously. Is there a way to do that cur­rently or if not, can you add that capa­bil­ity? (I tried using a File instead but haven’t got­ten that work­ing yet, tried USB Disk). Thanks!

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   • 
     LightArrow
     

     Mar 02, 2013

     Hi LB,
     Thanks for reach­ing out and for the kind words!
     We’d very like to improve the repeat sched­ule func­tion­al­ity to add sce­nar­ios you’ve described. Thank you fo those exam­ples! We’ll hope­fully do that in the next month or so.
     Also, in our 6.0 update (avail­able in a week or so) we have sig­nif­i­cantly improved the free­hand notes func­tion­al­ity. In our notes we sup­port text, free­hand drawing/writing, pho­tos, videos and voice memos. Which part are you hav­ing issues edit­ing?
     Best regards,
     Team LightArrow

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