* Notification Center shortcut (widget?) When managing a todo list, we need to be able to have quick access to the todo list. One way of doing this is by placing the todo list in the Notifications Center. Hopefully some apps will use the iOS 8 Widgets API to implement this. (Willing to compromise on this... Preferably not.) (Image below. Take a Note in the Notifications Center.) * Followup on task (email, calendar) When I eventually review an item on my todo list, I may decid

* Auto-Paste As a todo list, many times I use the app using the following pattern: - Use some app, see some information I'd like to follow up on. - Select the information, copy it. - Launch my todo-list, and paste the information for later use So, I wrote a feature into TaN where a new note always starts pre-populated with the content of the pasteboard pasted into the note. Two more detail on this are: 1. Pre-select the pre-pasted content (so it's really easy to get rid off,

As I've been playing around with pre-release versions of iOS 8, and saw the hiccups of Take-a-Note, and played around with other applications, I tried to remind myself why do I need TaN? Why can't I use other applications? What am I really missing from (for example) Notes, Reminders and others... So I started this list: * Clear indication of items waiting When managing a todo list, I need to quickly see if (and how many) items need handling. My notes are not my long-term memo

Well, the question itself may sound weird, as having your very own app is always so special, right? Like, you have your app listed in the App Store, and everyone is impressed with you. And you make sales, and dream of getting rich, right? Well, the truth is, that's not why I started Take-a-Note, and that's not why I keep it live. It all started from a real need and a specific use case I had, for which I couldn't find a solution in any of the other apps. So I went out and wrot

More on my Take-a-Note adventures. So this took me onto a roller-coaster of excitement (if late-night coding is exciting to you) as I was trying to figure out the best way to architecture my app, to allow for a Note Recorder VC, Notes List VC, and Note Details VC to be deep linked. I started with Recorder being the root VC. (Hint: I ended up with Recorder being the root VC...) I was looking how to deep-link, as a result of the user asking for details of a note (e.g. from the

It's 11pm, and I'm almost missing yet-another-day... It's so hard finding the content for writing. Anyway, more on Take-a-Note for iOS 7. I'm basically re-writing from scratch, including a new Wix-based website (like, duh?). The only piece of code I'm really re-using is the Notes Data Model, the piece of code that manages the the notes on disk and in memory - this is what should allow me to correctly upgrade my users. I should say, the new app looks very nice, and I really li

I started redoing Take-a-Note for iOS 7 exactly a month ago (February 27th, 2014). It actually started earlier - some 5 months ago, when on a long flight I decided to start laying down wireframes, to see where it takes me. My last update was on October 15th, 2012 - so it's been almost a full year without any updates, and I dare say I barely touched the code for over a year before that. One of the most interesting lessons I've learned was looking at the preferences/settings th