Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

Thanks for the scoop and links, Zoner. I've given it a good look, but I'm looking for something that uses the touch screen. I'm not very fast with the keyboard, so it wouldn't be very good for me anyway.

I'd still like to see Task Coach ported. I've looked at the docs for porting, but hildonizing an application is something that would prolly take me a long, long time.

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

And how about using Portabase? You can create todo lists fitting to your needs. Creating fields like prio, category, due date, title, note etc. is easy as 123. Then you can create various views and voilà, tailor made todo app is here.

Yes, I admit, it has no widget and no alarms. But the flexibility it gives you balances these drawbacks a bit.

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

Well, it would need a widget - to start with - so that a quick overview of the tasks could be presented on a desktop. The e-mail widget that comes with Maemo is a good example; another is the Calendar Home Widget.

The widget would need to be functional - i.e. not a static fill-the-entire-screen thing like the GPE Todo widget; it would need to be resizeable, and of course have fonts that could be adjusted (down, preferably).

Your taste may vary, of course :)

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

Portabase is an excellent application - except two major drawbacks: the scrolling is all over the place (literally. When - and I've got a todo list implemented this way - you have a large number of items, scrolling vertically means the display will also flicker horizontally at the slightest change in your trajectory - unless you make damned sure you have only N columns resized to their smallest width. It can be worked around, however.

The main problem is that blasted font again. I can't fit more than 5 items at a time in fullscreen landscape mode. Yes, I can turn the font down, but then ALL the UI gets a small font, not only the items.

But yes. Save these drawbacks Portabase works nicely.

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

You should change the title to:

N900's one major shortcoming: Nokia has no ToDo List.

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

Can't say I care WHO makes it, but if anyone has the time and inclination I suggest taking inspiration from the excellent Palm AgendusPro application.

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

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Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

Tried it. Find it unusable for even the simplest of tasks. It runs very, very slow. It does install though!

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

Tried the kdepim as well. It's not CPU intensive as it much as it breaks the memory boundary causing much swapiness and everything becomes bogged down...

This device would really have been a completely different beast with twice the ram :/

EDIT: It's actually pretty nice, so it's a shame...
Gonna try again after a reboot and see if it improves...

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

I tried the KDE PIM apps. as well. They hung up on me. I didn't try a reboot, so let me know if that helps at all. I'm not optimistic about a KDE based solution because KDE app.'s have a tendency to be a bit bloated. I know and love many KDE app.'s, but I'm not sure if they're suited for handhelds.

I dunno if anyone caught my thread in the Applications forum, but I'm asking folks to vote to request the Task Coach team to port it for Maemo:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=65233