SmartCal 3, or SmartTime 5?

SmartTime 5 is now available!.   Here is an updated summary of the similarities and differences between our two iPhone productivity wonders.

Integration or Specialization

That’s the main difference between the two apps.  While both integrate tasks and events together into the calendar, SmartTime integrates them in three different views while SmartCal integrates them in the Calendar only, and offers additional features that are specialized to each view. Both come from a common heritage. SmartTime was our first app ever, and has enjoyed over 1 million downloads.  It was – and still is – unique because it integrates ALL of your tasks and ALL of your events together, in three different views: Smart, Calendar, and Focus.  Those three views show all of your infirmation, but in three different ways. But some users were asking for a separate task list that had more robust task-management features. We came up with SmartCal,which has separate Tasks and Project views. So SmartCal has three different views also – Calendar, Tasks, Projects – but each shows different information. And each of those views is more “specialized” – for example, the Tasks view in SmartCal features one-tap Smart Filters for quickly and easily improving your productivity; the Projects view shows your progress as you complete tasks in each Project, and the Calendar view has a unique pull-down calendar that allows you to plan everything from just one screen.

Synchronization

There is another major difference between SmartCal and SmartTime: Synchronization. SmartCal sync’s appointment events directly with the iPhone calendar, and task items with Toodledo, the free web-based task list.  With Toodledo, you can create tasks directly from your browser on your laptop or desktop, and you can also sync them with our other apps SmartPad and SmartPlans.

With SmartTime, we have taken a unique approach, which we feel our “SmartTime legion” of users will love because it is in keeping with the “Integrated” design mandate of the app: We synchronize Events AND tasks directly with the iPhone calendar!  How do we achieve this?  Through slight of hand. Both Events and Tasks are sync’d to the iPhone calendar as Events, but our Tasks in the iPhone calendar have a cute little check box on the left side. This shows you that it is a Task.  Because SmartTime controls the placement of tasks, it also controls their placement in your iPhone calendar!  The result is, we make your iPhone calendar Smart as well.

(Note:  Because SmartTime converts tasks into “check box” events in your iPhone calendar, you cannot import or export those to any other task list. To the outside world – for example, in your Outlook, iCloud, or Google calendars – they will appear as events in those calendars, with a nifty little check box. Different. Unique. Integrated. Smart. We think you’ll love it.)

SmartDay – coming soon

We are working on a productivity powerhouse for your Mac, called SmartDay. We are also working on a web version, called MySmartDay. MySmartDay is our cloud server; our vision is to connect all of our Smart apps together, via mySmartDay – SmartTime, SmartCal, SmartNotes, SmartPlans, SmartPad, and SmartDay Mac. You can try it out now – we’ve got the SmartNotes module up and running; you can synchronize your notes, with voice and photo attachments, between SmartNotes on your iPhone and on your iPad, using mySmartDay. You also have full functionality of SmartNotes on mySmartDay.  All you need is SmartNotes!