December 2021: Here is where we are at

Hello,

Good job, stay the course !
My biggest expectations are a better Project Management: with among others things a template section to not have to recreate all the time the structure of sporadic/recurring similar projects. I use pre-formated emails for now.
Also a better general UI: The place to write notes appears sometimes "tight" when we wish to write a big section of text or copy paste something.

I hope you understand those as constructive criticisms. I like FT very much. (and English is not my main lang).

Rmq: I also hope one day it will be possible to sync with iCloud calendar and I'll can finally get rid of evilgoogle that I keep just for that. But I know this problem is not within your means ;-)

Happy new Year !

Thanks Francisco, very excited to see what is coming. The mobile app has come a long way so excited to see what else it can do! One suggestion that would be huge.... I have an Apple Watch as well as iphone. I often just hit the siri button and ask it to "remind me at 10 am to add something to my next action list" when I cannot type. Have you thought about implementing siri integration? Woould be amazing to voice capture via siri

Great progress. It's the small steps that lead to big accomplishments. Looking forward to what 2022 brings us all. Keep up the great work!

Hi Bertrand,

Project templates will undoubtedly be one of the big improvements planned for 2022. We also plan to improve the experience in the notes section.

Synchronization with the iCloud calendar is a bit complicated at the moment, as there is no access API, but we will investigate later.

Thanks for the suggestions and the cheering!

Hi Ivan,

The possibility of creating a mini-app for Apple Watch that allows you to capture things and see/execute the actions of the day is on our radar, although we want to improve the mobile app before dedicating to it.

Thank you!

Hi Cyrus,

Thanks for the cheering and Happy New Year! :)

Great developments, and great ideas for improvement. I have also been hoping for some sort of voice interaction. Even some sort of capture widget, for Android too, would be nice.

Thanks Francisco, I've been looking forward to supporting Chinese search and recommending FT to Chinese GTD users.

Hi Cameron,

Developing a capture widget is in our backlog. In the meantime I'd recommend you to integrate FacileThings with Braintoss, an app that allows you to easily capture voice memos and other stuff. You can see the info in the FacileThings website (How it works -> Advanced Tutorials -> Integration with Braintoss)

Thanks for the suggestion!

Hi Xinghe,

It would be great to have FacileThings translated to Chinese to help implement GTD to Chinese users. Unfortunately, we can't dedicate ourselves to it right now -- but I hope we can do it in the medium term.

Thank you!

Hi,Francisco.
Actually, I'm talking about this Bug that can't be searched in Chinese.
Ticket #12775
At the same time, I'd be happy to help you translate the Chinese version in the future.

Sorry Xinghe, I totally forgot about that issue. We'll investigate if Chinese characters can be supported well in the current search option. When we know something we'll notify you through the support ticket.

Thanks for your support!

I really like the simplistic format. For me it’s straight to the point. As you update, will the theme of simplicity be kept or at least options to turn certain things off? I am enjoying the experience and worry things will become too much.

Hi Nikki,

We always try to simplify stuff: design, processes, etc. The famous Einstein quote "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" is my motto as a software designer. :)

Thanks for your feedback!

While I am pleased with the direction the app is taking, improvement needs to be made in bringing the iOS application up to date. For example, why don’t I have the ability to long push to add to my inbox? Why don’t I have offline support?

FacileThings has always been the best at supporting GTD, but continues to be behind the competition when it comes to technology. I hope “catching up” is in the roadmap.

Hi Cyrus,

Of course, catching up with the mobile app, both in GTD functionality and in technology, is on our roadmap -- although first we are prioritizing the GTD functionality. When the app is more complete in this regard, we will focus on technological improvements.

Great news, I'm looking forward for the new Analytics section, I'd like to see something like projects I'm neglecting or tags I'm non using as filters, to tune up my system. I'd like to have the option to customize what's sent in the daily and weekly reports.

I agree with Cyrus: the mobile app needs more integration with the OS. On the GTD side of things it's enough for me (I use the web app on iPad for more complex things, like projects handling). I'd like an improvement in the task note section: currently I can't copy the text from an email or open a link in a note (for example I save links to reference material on DEVONthink or project templates on Drafts).

What I'd like to see next:
- improved checklists (I'd like to store in FT all my lists like "Books to read", "Movies to watch", "Restaurants to try", "Next time I'm in...")
- Recurring projects

Hi Paolo,

Thanks for your suggestions. I've written them all down to review later (tags not used, reports customization, etc.)

Also, I've passed the UI issues you mention on the task note section to our mobile devs, so they can fix it in the next release. Copy/paste and links should work in there.

Project Templates will be one of the major improvements this year. You'll be able to work easily with recurring projects.

Not sure that you need checklists for the lists you mention ("books to read", "movies to watch", etc.). I think they should be just items in the Someday/Maybe, each one with the right tag (#book, #movie, etc.)

Thank you so much for your support and feedback!

Hi Francisco,

thanks for you answer. About the mobile issue with links: regular URL to websites are opened without problem, tapping on a markdown link to an application URL schemas (for example x-devonthink-item://0006B262-068B-45D6-A460-CA6C482896FF to open a DEVONthink document) doesn't do anything.

Application URL schemas are commonly usend on iOS and iPadOS, you have just to open them in Safari to fix the problem. I can open a support ticket and help you test the issue if you want.

About the checklists: I don't like to use Someday/Maybe for those things because I can't sort the items and I can't just check them as completed, they goes to Inbox and there I've to delete them. Anyway, I understand that it's a matter of personal choices and you can't implement every request of every user. Currently I'm keeping them on another app, as I keep my reference material on another app, and everything works just fine! :-)

I forgot to ask this before:

- adding offline support to both mobile and web app is in your roadmap (or in your Someday/Maybe, at least)?

- I'd really love to have the same style of the report emails in the Print function of the web app.

Hi Paolo,

Please, open a support ticket for the DEVONlink issue. It's hard to track specific issue in the blog comments.

Offline support is totally in our roadmap. Not in the short-term goals though.

We'll provide this year a nicer print option (PDF reports).

Thank you!