UPDATE:
On June 20, 2009, KeyTasks and KeyNotes for iPhone OS were officially
discontinued. This was a business decision business based on the
conditions of the market.
No updates will be made to these
products; however, they will be supported and the synchronization
server will be available until June 20, 2010. Please note that because
these products were discontinued, Chapura has no plans to provide
future updates or enhancements to these products.
One of the things that gave me a heart attack when I picked up my iPhone was the realization that there was no synchronization of tasks from the desktop! I tried a few replacements but was not so happy that I had to stop using Outlook to manage my to-do list. I had been doing it for so many years - it was kind of hard to stop! Anyway I was working with toodledo - which synchronised at least to the web - meaning I didn't have to solely enter and manage the lists on the phone (I'm still pretty slow at typing on the phone ... please please please Mr Steve let us have a bluetooth keyboard!). It was working ok but didn't feel right to have to use something outside Outlook.
However.... on Friday night I discovered a little surprise! Chapura had released keytasks for the iPhone. Woohoo!! I was downloading it faster than the speed of light - excited about going back to my nice Outlook 2007/Getting Things Done lists!
I was unfortunately a little premature with my excitement. This version does not support categories. Oh dear!!! I find it impossible to work from one big long uncategorized list but tech support have promised that category support and a date problem fix will be coming asap in the next update. Can't wait.....
One nice benefit of the keytasks is that your tasks are synchronized to the 'cloud' on Chapura's server. You download free software for any of the computers you are using Outlook on and in a couple of minutes you are synchronizing away on auto pilot every 15 minutes. So technically I could have a computer at home and at the office plus a phone. When-ever I change my task lists by adding, deleting or completing etc the next time I use a computer it will synchronise and bring in the changes. Vice versa as well. This is what you pay $12.99 (in Australia) per year for.... The advantage is that if you dash out the door before synchronising via iTunes, you can still synchronize on the iphone itself and it will bring any new tasks down through the air. Bliss......and thank you Chapura - once the category support is here life will be restored to better than normal.
ps I've been a big fan of Chapura's Keysuite for Palm for many years - it gives you a much better interface and many more options than using just the inbuilt Palm calendar/contact/task & note applications
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