{"id":891,"date":"2013-04-24T00:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T07:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=891"},"modified":"2017-03-08T19:53:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:53:46","slug":"lil-todo-v2-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"lil todo v2 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=796\">I posted a few months ago<\/a> about updating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/liltodo\/\">lil todo<\/a>, my Windows Phone to-do app. Since then, I&#8217;ve done a lot of work and want to share some updates.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A simple menu system is used to navigate all your tasks. You type in a command like &#8220;inbox&#8221; to see all your items in the inbox. To see all your tasks, type &#8220;all&#8221;. To add a task, you&#8217;d type + followed by the name of the new task. There&#8217;s a bit of a learning curve at first, but once you get it, it&#8217;s pretty quick to navigate the system:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=894\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-894\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.10.19-AM-580x357.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-04-24 at 12.10.19 AM\" width=\"580\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.10.19-AM-580x357.png 580w, https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.10.19-AM-940x579.png 940w, https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.10.19-AM.png 1348w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To edit a task, enter its number and then type in a property name followed by the new property value:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=892\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-892\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.11.05-AM-580x357.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-04-24 at 12.11.05 AM\" width=\"580\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.11.05-AM-580x357.png 580w, https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.11.05-AM-940x579.png 940w, https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.11.05-AM.png 1348w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is a built-in help system. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=893\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-893\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.10.35-AM-580x357.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-04-24 at 12.10.35 AM\" width=\"580\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.10.35-AM-580x357.png 580w, https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.10.35-AM-940x579.png 940w, https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-24-at-12.10.35-AM.png 1348w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more to share, but I&#8217;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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a few months ago about updating lil todo, my Windows Phone to-do app. Since then, I&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">lil todo v2 update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[120],"tags":[29,87,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}