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So, thank you all for your support and invite your friends and be even more productive!

We updated our Mobile App to make it even more convenient and fast.

Most visible improvements:
The registration at our push provider has now a progress bar to better recognize any registration issues. Also The item counter at the home screen was updated and refreshes on every resume.

Enjoy the update!

We are still blown away to see "our baby" so enthusiastically presented! 

The new version 1.0.0 of the iPhone App Idonext Mobile adds the most frequently requested features:

• NOTES: 
  Add longer texts to a task. It has the same function like adding of a linefeed at the Web App.
• TASK COUNTER: 
  See already at the App’s home screen how many things you have to do today or tomorrow!
• iOS4 BACKGROUND SUPPORT:
  If you resume the app from the background the task lists are automatically refreshed. You can initiate this refresh also manually by shaking your device.

Unfortunately, we also learned today that Apple has changed the way Push Notifications are handled. We just could see learn about that behaviour on a productive/live app. As a result, the activation/registration for push of new users does currently not work and the user will see a warning-popup. Existing users who are just upgrading the app should not be affected by this issue because their device was already activated before.

We already sent an update which fixes that activation issue to the AppStore and it should be available around the 20th of October. So we have a major release with mixed feelings...

Today, we added the two most requested features:

1. the option to delete all done items
2. the keyboard-shortcut CTRL+S as alternative to a click on the "Save"-Button

Both new features are now available at the Web App and the "delete all done items"-feature will be added to the next update of Idonext Mobile, too.

The new version 0.7.0 of Idonext Mobile is available for download at the App Store. You can now use tags on your mobile device for creating of projects, categories, priorities, etc. - like as you already could on the web frontent. Tags can be synced and shared. And the best: Idonext Mobile automatically creates dynamic tag lists for you! 

Idonext Mobile now also runs on the iPad in zoom-mode and should bridge the gap until the release of the native app for the iPad.

Here is the full list of changes and additions:

• tags
• dynamic tag lists
• automatic push registration
• first retina display & iOS4 support (more comes soon)
• app works on the iPad
• app icon is titled "Idonext" and not "Ido...obile" anymore
• many bugfixes and performance improvements

We tried to come up with the most simple and time-saving solution and you just need to know these 3 Golden Rules:

1. Send your e-mail to memaail@gmail.com@idonextmemail@gmail.com.com from the address you are registered at Idonext

2. The subject holds the date for all tasks in the e-mail. Various formats are valid, like "11/10/2010", "10.11.2010", "0" (for today), "2" (for in 2 days) or "3 weeks" (for in 3 weeks). An empty subject means "Someday". If the subject is empty then you can assign a date to each task separately by adding the "+"-shortcut at the end of each task’s text.

3. Each task is separated by a single line break and can contain tags and the "+"-shortcut. A double line break marks the end of the tasks’ list. Everything after that is ignored by Mail2Task (perfect for signatures!).

Some minutes after sending you will get an automatic confirmation e-mail stating the number of recognized tasks. Please check the pictures of this blog post to see some examples. Have much fun with that time-saver!

While testing we also learned that the iPad’s browser Mobile Safari is far slower than the "normal" Desktop-Safari and it’s maybe due to an older codebase. Anyway, that means that the overall performance of the Web App can be slower if you have many tasks on the screen. But Apple will surely update Mobile Safari soon to fix that.

Especially for the iPad (and iPhone) we increased the size of the buttons and added the shortcut ",," (2 comma) which does the same magic task-splitting like "--" (2 hyphens) does. Try to enter the text "task1,,task2,,task3" and tap "Save" and you will see what I mean! A real time-saver!

These are the next steps for getting Idonext on the iPad:

Step 2 (coming very soon): the iPhone app "Idonext Mobile" runs on the iPad (in zoom mode).

Step 3 (coming soon): the iPad gets an own Idonext app which perfectly uses the devices capabilities in graphics & handling!

Stay excited & happy tapping!

We added a small, but very convenient feature to the Idonext service & mobile platform, called over-night badging. You surely know, Idonext Mobile’s app icon has a badge which shows the total of due things. Now, this badge is automatically updated when your day changes, even if your app is not open! This badge icon update is done over the air with a non-visible push notification. Hope you enjoy it!

The last two weeks we spent all our energy, sweat and coffee pads in turning Idonext into a global-ready system. The localization of Idonext and its frontends is vital for us and so we made the support for foreign languages more flexible and efficient. As proof of work we already added German as the first foreign language. More languages will follow!