Appigo’s Todo for iPad, like the iPhone version, looks great, is intuitive to use, and has a great range of features. When you launch Todo for iPad, the first thing you notice is how good it looks.
TO DO App for Ipad
It doesn’t always make sense for an app to imitate its counterpart in the real world, but Todo’s look, emulating a spiral-bound notebook, is spot-on. The default look is faux-leather in blue, but there are a number of themes you can switch to, and you can even buy in-app upgrades.
Todo features a number of ways to organize your tasks – by group and by filter – and all of them look pretty good.
Tapping on the button marked Settings causes the screen to ‘flip over’, showing you a settings panel, iPhone-sized, in the virtual back pocket of the notebook. Despite its very book-like appearance, Todo doesn’t emulate the behavior of e-reading apps – you can’t get back to the main page by swiping, but have to tap the edge of the screen to flip the page back.
All currently active tasks are logically displayed on the main screen. The method of adding new tasks (or ‘todos’) is refreshingly simple. You can very easily add multiple tasks consecutively, though they’ll be created without extra details – great for sudden bursts of productivity! If you enter or edit tasks one by one, you have a huge array of options.
On creating a new task, you have the options of making it a project, checklist or normal task. You have the options to begin the task, add notes, and assign deadlines. (Strangely, the default deadline is ‘today’.) After that, you can adjust priority level and recurrence, and then categorize by list, tag, or context. No matter how you like to organize, Todo should be able to accommodate you.
The best part, is that tasks can be viewed in Todo in the way that you choose – alphabetically, by due date, by priority, or any combination or even reversal – and you can then filter by lists, contexts, or tags, that you set up previously.
Todo for iPad is well thought out, thoroughly customizable, and very attractive. It can be integrated with TextExpander, and synced with Toodledo’s web service or Appigo Sync. It’s easy and pleasurable to use, which means it could actually be helpful in getting stuff done!