Right now I have to copy n paste or memorize a phone number before I dial it. Same thing with email addresses. I'd like to just hit it and accept the "call" out prompt. I would use this feature everyday.
Good news: you can already do that.
Tap on the field as if to edit it, and wait for keyboard to appear. In the upper-right corner there is a button that will dismiss the keyboard. Once keyboard is gone phone numbers can be dialed by pressing on them.
At the time I was not able to find a way to enable tap-to-dial in a more direct way, but now I think I know how to do that. I just need to get to it.
Any progress on making this process a little easier? Fewer steps?
Nope. Is it a big pain? Seems to be a minor inconvenience to me.
Let's talk about that, maybe I am missing something.
@Denis - No offense, but your entire application is based on eliminating minor inconveniences like not being able to access Google Tasks while offline or quickly launching your tasks instead of waiting for the web interface to load. I understand the need to prioritize. Maybe setting up a Uservoice (https://uservoice.com/) so that your users can vote on which features are most important would be of some benefit.
your entire application is based on eliminating minor inconveniences
Well, no. It's based around eliminating major inconveniences - minor inconveniences don't pay, not at my scale anyway. Not being able to access your tasks offline is a major pain compared to making two extra taps to dial the phone number. Don't you think there is a substantial difference?
More to the point, I have just finished feature allowing cross-list view of all tasks due for a given day. Going in and out each of five lists to find all tasks due today is a major pain, compared to, again, extra two taps to dial a number. Which feature of these two do you think is more important, and why?
@Denis - You are absolutely right. That is much more important. Maybe there would be some benefit to having a list of features you are working on so that we don't request things that are already on the list and we can understand the priority of the features being worked on.
[edit: I didn't see your prior post from 13:53 when writing this]
Actually, let me be more specific in my question.
I can imagine walking from dry cleaning to the car, in a hurry, and writing down when to pick up the laundry - it's either now or you will forget, and you are usually in a hurry when you drop off the laundry, and you need to get to the next thing in your busy schedule. Make sense. This is why creation of a new task is always at most two taps away, and usually just one, with zero screen redraws. This was specifically streamlined, and I have even invested into adding a mini-calendar into it so that you don't have to go into "details" pane, which is a distraction at this point.
Now let's imagine a scenario where you really need to dial a phone number from a task so quickly you don't have time for two extra taps and one screen refresh. Uhm. Well, it's not coming through for me. The former scenario was actually brought up by a user here on the forum and it looked plausible enough. What is yours?
Ironically, public list of forthcoming features is also on my to-do list :-)
I'll see what I can do about that soonish.
Not sure if this would be the best way to make the features list but it would be fast and easy to set up. Just use a Google Docs Spreadsheet.
I would love to be able to link directly to my Contacts List from this app rather than going to get the number,copying it,coming back to GeeTasks and pasting it in, and then calling. Would you consider this?
There are couple of things to keep in mind here:
One thing I could do is give you access to address book within GeeTasks, so you don't have to do the copy-paste dance.
Not sure if this is the right approach though…
Yes! Not to speak for the OP, but this is exactly what _I_ would like.
