Appigo ToDo was recommended by John. He is right. It is a terrific To Do list manager and it syncs up into the cloud. I’ve normally used Outlook’s Notes to do this between PC and Blackberry (for free!), but iPhone doesn’t support notes nor does Mac Mail and so there is no sync into the cloud.
In any case, this is another example of a smaller dedicated application being better. In truth, I think dividing Calendar, Address Book, Mail and Notes makes more sense than having one monolithic application particularly on devices like iPhone and on today’s fast computers.
Now if only someone made a group scheduling application that worked seamlessly across Mac, iPhone and Blackberry, I’d be happy! And please don’t suggest Exchange with Entourage, it doesn’t do so many important things. Here’s a list:
- iPhone to Exchange. Doesn’t let you add invites from the iPhone. Doesn’t let you schedule recurring meetings that happen say on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday every week.
- Mac Entourage to Exchange. Doesn’t let an assistant see invites coming over email so invites just stack up in someone’s folders. Fix looks like some sort of server rule forwarding which should be form based.
- iCal to Exchange. Well, this one doesn’t work at all without a third party server side piece or very slow client side synchronization using iSync that is very buggy.
- Blackberry to Exchange. This does work fine. Although there seem to be bugs.
- PC to Exchange. Outlook does work well.
The alternative is to go to Google Calendar, and these are the issues:
- iPhone to gCal. No such client that I can find. Google Calendar doesn’t support ActiveSync which is the way that iPhone talk to the world.
- iCal to gCal. No way that I can find that this works natively. That is it synchronizes properly
- Entourage to gCal. Same deal
- Outlook to gCal. This does work but only via an Outlook add-in
- Blackberry to gCal. They have an automatic synchronizer that works.
So gCal works in the Blackberry/PC world, but not in the Mac/iPhone world. Steve had better tell Eric next time there is an Apple board meeting 