Daily Notes +Todo – A Review

Within a few days, or weeks, of acquiring an iPad for day-to-day work activities, it became readily apparent that my most used applications are Notes and Omnifocus. Usually when I notice patterns like that in my work flow, the minimalist side of me begins to desire a merging of the functionality (to cut down on process overhead). After searching the app store and trying various things, I believe I have satisified that desire with the application Daily Notes +Todo (http://www.fluidtouch.biz/dailynotes/).

This application gives me the ability to log various things about my work day (e.g. meeting notes, conversation snippets, etc) while at the same time direct access to:

• my tasks
• a calendar

The desire to look like a physical leather bound journal is a pointless distraction in my mind (and somewhat ugly also). But it’s quite easy to ignore.

There are three things I’d like to see as future improvements:

1. Access to iCal from the calendar. A simple sliding tab, similar to the tasks tab, would be nice. A single day view would suffice.

2. Ability to hide the calendar in landscape mode. When using the on-screen keyboard, landscape mode gives the best layout for typing. However the display of the calendar removes valuable screen real estate from the task at hand: typing a journal entry. Hiding the calendar would allow the journal entry more space, resulting in a more pleasing experience and more of the entry viewable.

3. Some kind of desktop equivalent. Ideal would be cross-platform, but at least something on my OS X desktop wherein I can view and modify the journal and tasks would be great.

Wish list items 1 and 2 would move this from a great app to an excellent app; item 3 would move this app into a class unto itself.

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