SmartTime for iPad - Screen Shot #1
SmartTime for iPad is an ultimate integration of calendars, to-do’s, notes, projects and people.
This is our first “live” screen shot from SmartTime for iPad, which we submitted to the App Store last week. It should be accepted any day now.
SmartTime
SmartCal
We are just putting the finishing touches to SmartTime5. It will be released shortly after iOS5 is released. Here is an updated summary of the similarities and differences between the two apps.
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
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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!
Hakan has updated his wonderful FAQ. If you have any questions about how to use the most innovative productivity tool ever created, Hakan has all the answers. And he doesn’t even work for us! Here is his FAQ: http://web.me.com/hakanl/SmartTime_FAQ/
August 9, 2010 – Bainbridge Island, Washington
We are pleased to announce our new back to school line-up of productivity applications. They include SmartTime, SmartNotes (for iPhone and iPad), and SmartPlans. They also include two new apps, SmartCal for iPhone and SmartTime for iPad. Both are currently undergoing testing and will be ready in the very near future.
SmartCal is an integrated calendar and planner that combines tasks and events just the way your day unfolds. It allows you to sort and prioritize your tasks at the tip of your finger, and then inserts them into the free time in your Calendar. It even splits your tasks for you automatically. Quick add new appointments simply by tapping on the time line from the Day or Week views. SmartCal also syncs directly with your iPhone Calendar, enabling seamless connections onward to iCal, Mobile Me, and Outlook.
SmartTime for iPad is the ultimate integration of calendars, to-do’s, notes, projects, and people. It combines the best features of our SmartApps into one productivity powerhouse with a simple, intuitive interface. Flip through calendar views, take notes and create new tasks from any highlighted text, integrate tasks dynamically into your work day, manage your time, time your projects and calls, and see it all on one uncluttered screen.
To see the full line-up, just go to http://leftcoastlogic.com
SmartTime 4.0.1 has been released on the app store and includes certain bug fixes related to Google Sync. We have also submitted maintenance release 4.0.2 which fixes certain UI issues related to the Contacts list.
We are currently working on integrating SmartTime events directly with the iPhone calendar and expect to have that major release ready within the next few months.
I find it helpful to plan out my week by giving each day a “theme” or “topic.” This is a specific goal that I need to achieve, or work towards, on that day. I know I have dozens of other tasks that have to be done, and I know that I may not finish that particular theme/goal/topic. But I will dedicate the largest share of that day to completing the item, and my mind will be focused on issues regarding that item. To do this, on SmartTime I simply create an All Day Event for each goal. That way, they appear separately in the ADE pane of my Week view, as shown below.
Week Goals
In early January, SmartTime broke into the “What’s Hot” list of ALL applications on the iTunes App Store and maintained that position for three weeks. Congratulations!
