Using text to manage tasks

Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 16, 2012 at 04:03 PM

Sorry, Franz, only just seen this. Hm, I can’t really advise, unfortunately, because I haven’t used Notebooks for iPhone for a long time (I have a Galaxy Note!). It has to be said that Notebooks doesn’t yet have an Android client, but I can’t say I really miss it - I generally store events on all three devices, but keep track of my to-dos on the iPad and my PC only (I jot notes on the Samsung, which I then enter into Notebooks if required, but I don’t keep a complex to-do list on the mobile: wouldn’t want to, to be perfectly honest).

Actually, as an amusing aside, I feel quite liberated now I no longer feel an obsessive need to keep all my to-dos etc. synchronised across all platforms. The fact is, I like to add copious notes to to-dos (often because I’m tracking projects and stuff). Doing this on a mobile is not fun, whereas doing it on an iPad or a PC is fine (I use an external keyboard with my iPad as a matter of course - it has become my more-than-netbook, in fact). So I regard my mobile as a source of quick info - scraps and notes, if you like - that I can then write up elsewhere. If I really need to put something complex on the mobile, I can easily do so via Dropbox (in text, PDF or any number of other formats). Then it’s nice and easy to read!