I posted a few months ago about updating lil todo, my Windows Phone to-do app. Since then, I’ve done a lot of work and want to share some updates.
First of all, I had mentioned half-jokingly that I would write a command-line version of the app. Guess what? It happened. I wrote a Ruby implementation of the entire app model first. With the Ruby script, I was able to get something a simple app with a new data store system working in a day! A few days later I was able to get a simple prototype of a cloud-syncing solution working.
A simple menu system is used to navigate all your tasks. You type in a command like “inbox” to see all your items in the inbox. To see all your tasks, type “all”. To add a task, you’d type + followed by the name of the new task. There’s a bit of a learning curve at first, but once you get it, it’s pretty quick to navigate the system:
To edit a task, enter its number and then type in a property name followed by the new property value:
Of course, there is a built-in help system. 🙂
There’s more to share, but I’ll cover that in the next post. As a preview, the new version already supports syncing to a Dropbox account, so you will be able to edit tasks on your mobile device and on a desktop app!
