TaskTask

If you’re using TaskTask on iOS 4 or iOS 5 and can’t find the Local Reminders setting and aren’t seeing reminders appear on your device, you will need to reinstall TaskTask to get the setting to return. This issue is a bug in TaskTask where the state of the device’s support for local reminders was stored permanently and isn’t reset even though you have upgraded the OS version that now supports local notifications. Reinstalling TaskTask from the App Store will allow TaskTask to detect that your device supports reminders and enable the feature.

This issue will be fixed in the next update for TaskTask.

I’m moving to a new e-mail provider for TaskTask e-mail accounts this weekend. If you’re trying to e-mail support and receiving an error that the message cannot be delivered, please send your mail to support [at] tasktaskonline.com. Hopefully the issue that is preventing mail to the normal address from being delivered will be resolved later today. Also consider posting your question on our support forum at http://forum.tasktaskapp.com/.

Everything is back to normal now. Please use support [at] tasktaskapp.com for e-mail support, although I encourage everyone to post their issues to the forums, where other people can help you out as well!

Hello! As mentioned in an earlier post, this summer is a very busy summer for me! In two weeks I’ll be getting married, and the run up to our wedding hasn’t given me a lot of time to work on developing TaskTask features. However, I have been able to get in a few hours of coding, will be polishing up an update to provide full compatibility with iOS 5 and a few bug fixes in the next week.

Beyond that, TaskTask development is still going on. I’m very close to releasing a Windows Phone version of TaskTask, and continue to have dreams of TaskTask being available on Android in the future. The Windows Phone version will likely be released sometime in late summer, just before Windows Phone Mango arrives.

I haven’t forgotten the iOS version either though, where I continue to work on new features like attachment support and ActiveSync connectivity. Because of the significant extra development time, these features may be pay-for-use features, requiring an in-app purchase before they are available. Given the recent legal issues around in-app purchasing, I don’t have a release date for these features yet. Hopefully the legal issue will blow over, the app store will settle down, and these features can roll out this summer.

Post wedding, TaskTask development should pick back up, and more regular updates will be coming out. Thanks for your patience and support!

–Ryan

I’ve been getting e-mail reports that TaskTask is not available in the iTunes App Store over the last couple of days. I’ve finally tracked down the issue: my contract to sell apps on the App Store expired on Saturday, and I never received any notification that the contract was expiring.

I’ve updated the contracts and they are being processed right now. As soon as they are finished processing TaskTask will be available in the store again. Sorry for the inconvenience! I’ll update this post when the app is available again.

Update: The contracts have been renewed and TaskTask should be available for download again.

Two years ago when I started working on TaskTask, I had no idea it would become what it is today. I started off writing the app to provide a solution to a need for myself and some friends, and thought I’d publish it on the store and see if anyone was interested. Two years later, TaskTask is one of the more popular Task programs on iOS that syncs with Exchange. I sincerely appreciate all of my customers and hope that everyone is getting a lot of value out of TaskTask for iPad and iPhone.

Tonight I submitted what I believe to be the last update for TaskTask 3.0. I’m off working on TaskTask 3.5 now, and looking to add support for attachments to Tasks. This will allow you to quickly read important documents attached to your tasks as long as you have an app on your device that can open the file. I’m also looking at allowing you to quickly add tasks to your list by taking a picture of something and having the picture attached to a new task.

In addition to attachments, I’m investigating the possibility of adding Exchange ActiveSync as a 3rd provider type to TaskTask. EAS will provide easier configuration (works just like mail/calendar/contacts on the device), and would provide compatibility with any server that supports EAS, including Zimbra and someday (hopefully) GMail. However, these is a steep license fee that must be paid to license EAS for use in a mobile app.

Due to the complexity of these additions and the cost of the license royalty, it’s likely these features will end up being paid upgrade features in TaskTask 3.5 through the in-app purchase model. More details to come on that in the future.

I’m also investigating the work necessary to port TaskTask to other mobile platforms, including Android and Windows Phone 7. If this is interesting to you, please let me know in the comments.

In addition to all of that, I’ll be taking the month of July off from TaskTask for personal reasons. During that time I won’t be releasing any updates or providing technical support.

Tonight I’ve put the finishing touches on the latest build of TaskTask 3.0.376. This update is a minor update, and includes fixes for the following reported bugs:

• TaskTask crashes sometimes when creating a new Task folder on the server
• Sync error when saving tasks with High or Low importance on localized builds of TaskTask connected using Exchange Web Services.
• TaskTask crashes sometimes when marking a task complete from the Task editor
• Sync errors with NSXMLParserException when syncing flagged mail items

This build also adds a small feature, quick buttons for setting a reminder for Today or Tomorrow on a task.

Looking at the developer plan and my schedule, this is probably the last update to the 3.0 series of TaskTask. There may be one more update to resolve some localization issues and any other minor issues that creep up.