Palm Pre: Tasks
Friday, March 12th, 2010 at
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does the pre enable autodial if you have a phone number in your task or in the note in a task?
There’s a nice view on the Palm OS ‘Today’ which lists the tasks due ‘today’ along with scheduled list for the day. I think that’s a very handy view.
From a GTD perspective, tasks should generally not appear on your calendar as they are not part of the “hard landscape.” Rather, items that are really day-specific or time-specific should only annotated as you review active tasks during your weekly review. Not that Palm need subscribe to GTD altogether, but this distinction tends to be prevalent amongst those who manage hundreds of active tasks. Calendar clutter = numbness, mental resistance, mistrust, ultimately disuse altogether.
I’d say your only option is to make a calendar entry in that case. That way, it will exist in the cloud via Google Calendar, you can embed it in Gmail and Netvibes, and share it in Exchange.
yes and no i think…. some tasks are just that… task. but others can be important milestones that you do not want to miss, and having it shown on the calendar would be definitely useful. for example, if you had multiple legal paperwork with important deadlines, you’d want to make sure you don’t miss those dates.
i hope palm is reading this and perhaps offer an all on/off toggle to include task with due dates in the calendar. or, single-task override to include in the calendar.
You can drag and drop to reorder I just checked.
I notice that when you put dates for items in your Project list the the items did not re-order by date. So just how are tasks ordered on the list–is there any way to re-order them automatically or manually?
Tasks != Calendar. Who wants their groceries in their calendar?
How did you get the emulator on your mac is it available for pc?
I wish that was the case but I have gone back and checked this was not the case. It seems tasks simply do not sync with the calendar. This is surprising to me because Palm has been pushing Synergy so hard. Then again it might just not do it in the emulator.
maybe thats because you already marked the task as completed
I just went back and checked. I changed the calendar view to all and it still did not show up. Bummer.
Maybe the task didn’t show up in the calendar because you had “Google” selected in the calendar view? (Just wondering – not sure.)
I actually mentioned this in the video on the emulator tasks DO NOT sync with the calendar but this could be a feature of the actual Pre. I won’t know until it comes out.
Do the Tasks sync with the calendar? Like Fandango does? I know it may not be a feature on the emulator… But that could be pretty cool.
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I’m dreaming of a Palm Pre in my hands before Christmas
Just like the other phones that multi-task you know
Where the Synergy glistens,
and to Amazons MP3 children listen
To hear clear 3G calls in the snow
I’m dreaming of a Palm Pre in my hands before Christmas
With every Twitter Tweet I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all of you get a Palm Pre on June 6th Night
One alternative to the Tasks application is Outline Tracker (http://outlinetracker.com). It supports the GTD methodology, and items (notes and uncompleted tasks) with a date are shown in the webOS Calendar. Items without a date are not shown in the webOS Calendar.
(The Tasks application does not interact with the Calendar at all — the emulator works like the device here.)