A Look at Task Eater for iPhone
For many, getting’s things done is like winning the lottery, everyone hopes to win. However, for Task Eater Developer and Designer Tobias Wiedenmann he doesn’t wish to win, but help you win. Task Eater is a sleek and simple to do list application for the iPhone and iPod Touch currently available on the App Store for $0.99.
Overview:
Unlike Things, ToDo and 2Do theres nothing complex about Task Eater and their is nothing that can leave you asking, why? The app comes along with three main views, Timeline, Tasks and Finished, names we should all be familiar with. Task Eater aims at providing the user with easy to use functions that anyone who has used an Apple device before should already be familiar with. For example, the plus button on the top right hand side when you first launch the application dedicated to allowing you to add a task, simple huh? Another example is when you are done writing your task but might want to set a notification time to remind yourself, simply hit the clock glyph and set your time, so yeah, it’s that easy!
For more tips and tricks be sure to check out their nicely written FAQ.
Of course Task Eater allows you to delete certain tasks and even head over to the “Finished” view if you accidentally pressed something you didn’t mean to press; mistakes happen you know. You can also create a backup of the whole application, tasks and all just incase you Jailbroke and want to restore your device and what not but hey, whose judging?
You can also customize the look of the application, just a bit, by changing fonts, adding badges and even choosing which order to display your tasks in.
Design
There’s not much to say about this applications design other than that it looks fabulous. Tobias did an excellent job managing both the development and design aspects of this application even with the little time he had throughout the day so thanks man :)
Also this young lad isn’t afraid to give the users something to do, adding customizable features we talked about in the overview incase someone had a different opinion.
Favorite Feature
Icons are something I take a lot of pride in, especially if they are supposed to be on my device. With that said, my overall favorite feature in Task Eater is the icon itself and the ability to add your own icons for your tasks straight from iTunes.
This puts a whole new perspective in the GTD category in the App Store since no one has allowed anyone to do this before. (To my knowledge)
Again Tobias, awesome job!
Final Thoughts
Overall, I feel Task Eater is a must buy and definaltely deserves the spot not only on your device but in the Top 100 on the App Store. Feel free to buy the application here for $0.99, a steal.
Interview with Tobias
We got the chance to ask Tobias a few questions about the application and how his development career came to be.
In short:
I’m an independent designer/developer from Stuttgart, Germany.
I started to play around with icon / UI design inspired by various desktop modding sites like MacThemes.
At that time I started to learn coding for OS X. After about 1 or 2 years with smaller projects and a lot learning about the framework, Apple announced iOS 4 with Local Notifications.
Most todo apps integrated thousand of features I didn’t need. I just use todo apps for my daily stuff, why I also don’t want a full-featured GTD client.
I think it took about 7 or 8 months from the start until the app arrived in the store.
Thanks again Tobias!
http://www.tobiaswiedenmann.com/
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