I hope more software comes out that use Dropbox for storage. I want an Instagram for Dropbox, a music locker with a player for Dropbox, a Skitch for Dropbox, an Xmarks bookmark sync for Dropbox.
One Password, Hackpad, O'Reilly Media, and now this todo.txt are all doing the right thing and may they be successful for a thousand years. There is no reason I should have to pay Evernote, Apple, Amazon or Google any cloud storage money when I already use Dropbox, and there's no reason why I should have to deal with ads on "free" services either.
I work on Platform at Dropbox and I agree :) We want great developers to build all of these things and I want to help them. Anyone out there please reach out!
The few apps I've granted access to my Dropbox always get (or take) full access to all my files, which is disconcerting. Is it possible for apps to be granted access to only the certain directories or limited areas of my Dropbox?
This is one of the reasons I stopped using Todo.txt like a year or so ago.
It needed access to EVERYthing. I understand the developers will not be accessing other files but I just can't let anyone access my personal photos, my school work, my statements, etc. There is a reason I have a password on my computer and letting a program access everything in the folder I love the most just isn't acceptable.
There has to be a way to grant access to a certain file and I will gladly start using these Dropbox apps.
> but I just can't let anyone access my personal photos, my school work, my statements, etc.
They shouldn't be on Dropbox in the first place. What you put on Dropbox is essentially public - be it for their admins or for law enforcement agencies who don't need a warrant to access your dropbox.
Look up BoxCryptor, or set up encfs on Dropbox yourself. You get all the advantages of Dropbox (everything is on every [non-IOS :(] machine always - with LAN sync), but you suddenly have secure area inside Dropbox.
I would like to yet see a todo list software that sits on the neck on the user to complete the task he himself has entered. I need an outliner with following abilities: Expected result with a deadline Actions to complete the expected result Next review date/time
The software should pop up in the middle of anything to shout out the action after the review time has expired.
That completes all the to do list software has to offer.
One more thing - it has to be on Android.
Sounds a lot like Apple's Reminders App. I made a few AppleScripts. In the middle of work when I have an idea/task and don't want to interrupt my workflow is press command-spacebar. ( This invokes LanchBar ) press "r" for Reminders.app, press space to get to text entry mode, and enter in whatever the task is.
That is for a basic task, it will get tossed into the app. I can add things like "Go get the mail today @2:20PM", and it will enter in the correct time and date and remind me with a default reminder popup on screen.
In addition to the pop up on screen it is also listed in the Notification center, which is always a three finger swipe away on the trackpad.
You can even have it reminds you when you arrive or leave a location using geofences. ie: "Remind me to get oranges when I am near Safeway" and when I am near a Safeway it will remind me.
I use it for taking out the trash and bringing the cans back in. All this transfers to my phone as well, without any intervention on my part. So if I am out with a client, I don't want to be bothered by certain alerts. Reminders will know because I am nowhere near the trash cans.
Of course, there is the actual Reminders.app where you can get very granular, enter in large amounts of notes and additions, set it as a repeating item etc.
Entering can be done on your phone vie Siri entirely as well.
It may be a little overboard for some, but it is what I have been using lately, and has served me pretty well. A heck of a lot of these items used to be a battle of "should they go in my calendar, or should they go in a todo", now, only appointments go in my calendar, birthdays, things like that. Any action that is a one off, or even repeating but not really something that I would ever mark on a calendar or need to know abbot after I am done with the task, that goes through this new system.
The point of it is that it would be best if I only have to pay one provider for cloud storage, not multiple, especially when I have so much storage available for me on Dropbox.
Entitled? No. Annoyed when yet another service wants to provide their own cloud storage for a monthly fee on top of something they could just use Dropbox with? Yes. That problem has been solved.
In addition with Dropbox I control the storage. There's no export needed. That data is mine, not yours and is accessible to me everywhere. So yes I want developers to use Dropbox, and charge for the add on, not the cloud storage.
One Password, Hackpad, O'Reilly Media, and now this todo.txt are all doing the right thing and may they be successful for a thousand years. There is no reason I should have to pay Evernote, Apple, Amazon or Google any cloud storage money when I already use Dropbox, and there's no reason why I should have to deal with ads on "free" services either.