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As you may know, at the end of March, Got To Do<\/a> was canceled by its maker (see my previous blog entry<\/a>), that created a gap in the MYN tool suite; it left us with no recommended Android tasks app that worked with ToodleDo and MYN.<\/p>\n So I am very pleased that Pocket Informant (PI) Android is now available. Just this weekend the PI team made the final changes needed to support MYN\u2014they added the ability to hide all future-dated tasks\u2014and that made the app feature-compatible with MYN; I now endorse it completely. Its task manager is full of features and its calendar module is second to none (using that is optional).<\/p>\n So if you need a ToodleDo-compatible Android app, buy Pocket Informant off the Android Market (it\u2019s about 5 bucks) and then configure it for MYN per the instructions below (I make no money off those purchases; I just like the software). You can watch an overview movie and read more about Pocket Informant Android here<\/a>. And when you are ready to configure it for MYN, read on.<\/p>\n Pocket Informant: Award-Winning Software that has Been on Windows Mobile for Years<\/strong><\/p>\n I have been using and recommending Pocket Informant on the Windows mobile platform for nearly a decade; I still recommend PI if you are using Windows Mobile 6 and Outlook Exchange. It won tons of awards for its great functionality and it does just about everything you can imagine with tasks and calendars. The Win Mobile 6 version synchronizes tasks well with your Outlook Exchange Server, and it configures perfectly for MYN (see instructions here<\/a>). When I personally stopped using Window Mobile phones a while back, PI is what I missed the most. So I am really excited that they ported it to the Android platform for use with ToodleDo server.<\/p>\n Note: PI Android does not work with Exchange. PI for ToodledDo is also available for the iPhone, iPad, and BlackBerry; but those versions are not yet MYN-ready so I cannot recommend them. I have feature-change requests in to eventually get those there but no promises are made. So see my other ToodleDo-MYN app recommendations<\/a> for those platforms. There is no PI for Windows Phone 7. <\/em><\/p>\n How to Configure Pocket Informant Android for MYN 1.02 to 1.4 [Update 10\/30\/2011: For configuration instructions for the newer version 1.5 and later, see video #6 that is part of my new One Minute To-Do List book Extras page here: www.1MTD.com\/extras<\/a> ]<\/p>\n For older versions,to use instructions below, be sure you have v 1.02, build 4015 or later, (but again, not version 1.5 or later). You can check your version as follows: \u00a0go the Android menu button, select Settings, then scroll to bottom and choose About.<\/p>\n Connect PI to Your ToodleDo Account:<\/strong><\/p>\n If you have not done so already, connect your copy of PI to your ToodleDo tasks account.\u00a0Here is how:<\/p>\n I recommend you also enable Auto-Sync and set it to a reasonable setting that matches your usage patterns (you can save battery life by not setting it to sync too frequently). If you set it to an infrequent value, then at the bottom of the Synchronize menu list activate the Sync from Menu command\u2014that adds the Sync command to the main PI menu so you can do it manually whenever you use PI.<\/p>\n Press the Sync Now button in the middle of this screen to do your first sync (the first one may take a bit of time if you have a lot of tasks on the ToodleDo server). Return back to the tasks list and confirm your tasks have synced into PI.<\/p>\n Now Make the MYN Settings:<\/strong><\/p>\n PI-Android requires a number of setting changes to work correctly with the MYN task system, and I list them below. Note; I am only listing the ones you need to change from PI\u2019s default settings. In addition to these, there are a number of already existing settings in a new PI install that you need leave as-is for MYN to work. These are too numerous to list (PI has over 100 optional settings), so if you have been playing around with PI and have already made a bunch of setting changes, I recommend you uninstall and reinstall PI to get back to default settings before you start the steps below.<\/p>\n Assuming you are starting at a new install with default PI settings, here are the MYN changes to make; this looks like a lot, but you only need to make these changes once:<\/p>\n Navigate to the Tasks window (at the bottom of the main PI window press the 5th<\/sup> icon from the left edge; it looks like clipboard with a check mark on it.)<\/p>\n Optional Settings while in the Tasks Settings list:<\/p>\n Check your Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n After you exit all the way out of the setting screens to the tasks list, you should see the following: High priority at top (then Medium, then Low). Tasks should be date sorted within each priority section with newest start dates at top. No completed tasks. No future start date tasks.<\/p>\n If you see all this correctly, you are done!<\/p>\n Enjoy having all your ToodleDo-based tasks usable on Android, and let me (and others) know in the comments section how it goes.<\/p>\n Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apr 17, 2011 I am very pleased to announce that that the new Android app Pocket Informant now supports MYN tasks. It\u2019s a great app and it fills an important place in the MYN-compatible mobile app list. If you are … Continue reading
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