Reminder
tintin (guest) 12 Apr 2010 10:56
hello
when I add a task with a maturity (e.g May 15th) and I configure my Iphone to remind me it the day before the maturity,
It won't be doing automatically.
why ?
Ty
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tintin (guest) 12 Apr 2010 10:56
GeeTasks does not have reminders - it's curently very difficult to implement reminders on iPhone and it's impossible to make them reliable. (I would have to use PUSH notifications which don't work in absence of network and require me to setup my own push server).
In addition to that, there is little benefit to reminders - Google Tasks do not have due time, only due date and therefore all reminders would fire at the same time each day. You can achieve almost the same effect if you set an alarm to ring every day at 8 am - this works just as well for people with many tasks, although not so well for people who do not have tasks for each day.
So combination of complexity and limited usefulness make it a low-priority item for me. However, in upcoming iPhone OS update there will be support for calendar integration and since it will be easy for me to do and reliable for you to use I will do it. Expect this feature around July timeframe.
Its great that reminders will come in O.S 4.0. Any idea if these reminders will be wiped when a phone call comes (As happens with calender reminders now) or will there be a way to ensure they stay on screen until dismissed. The amount of reminders I have missed due to a phone call for my calendar apps is too much so I hope there is a way to address this in 4.0.
Just got your app - love it by the way and can't wait for an iPad version :-)
Hi Martyn.
I plan to add the reminders as regular events to the iPhone calendar, thus all behavior will be exactly identical to any other calendar entry. It will even sync back to your Google Calendar or Exchange Calendar if you use one of those.
The problem you bring up is new to me and I did not give it much thought yet… I think there is another kind of reminders there, I will look at it when I get time.
I would really like to see reminders implemented. Thanks for your help.
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