04.04
Pagico on iPad??!
First off, I am just one of the crowd who just can’t be more excited about iPad. As a team that develops applications for Mac, we can’t help but start envisioning about how Pagico on iPad will mean to our users, and the result was extremely exciting: iPad is the perfect mobile platform for Pagico!
I know that some of you might come out and shout “Hey you guys haven’t delivered the iPhone version which was promised 2 years ago!”. I know. But there were a few reasons that prevented us moving towards that route. One of the biggest problem is usability — Pagico is not just another task planner. It’s much more than that. So trying to do so much on such a small device is a very daunting and risky task. Watering it down for just Inbox access it not an ideal solution, either. This time, iPad provides us a much larger display to handle complicated structure with enough room for navigation system to work, and a much faster processor to handle sophisticated activities.
So, we’re now with the drawing board, laying out plans for Pagico on iPad. Early experiments have already been started, and we’re very confident to start developing applications for the iPhone OS. Now, here’s a question for you: What do you want to see and use in Pagico on iPad? Please let us know! Right now, everything’s possible and we do appreciate any input and comment on this.
A new Pagico v4.2 release
Put this aside, there’s also an upcoming release for Pagico v4.2, too. This release (currently, the r1002) addresses a few minor issues, and is aimed at improving user experience especially for new users.
Enhanced localization support
Starting from this release, we enhanced the multi-language support module, so that if some of the phrases are not translated (which is quite normal when new features are added, etc), Pagico will automatically display the same phrase in English. This ensures user experience with incomplete language packs.
Optimized Might-Do list algorithm
The Might-Do list is getting smarter. It will not clutter the UI by listing too many Might-Do tasks, but it’ll still display those tasks that are due in the very near future. Also, users are able to hide certain Someday tasks from appearing in the Might-Do list.
Enhanced Hands-on user experience
We’ve done a lot of work to optimize the learning curve for new users. One of them is renaming Topics to Projects. In addition, many placeholder messages (the messages that appear when no content is present) are optimized, too.
Items can be deleted from list view
This is actually one of the feature that existed before, but was disabled temporarily when the new list view module was used in Pagico v4.2. Now you can delete topics (now called projects) easily right from the list.
Profiles can be created from collections
In the past, you can see a button for creating new topics from static collections. Now you can create new profiles from static collections, too.
These are only a few improvements in the upcoming r1002 release. More details, including the bug-fix list will be disclosed when the release is officially available. Here are a few screenshots for the UI changes made in this new release.
Hope you’ll enjoy! 
Pagico on iPad. Great!
My recommendations – although I might repeat myself – are following:
iPad (iPhone OS devices) do not have a common database for files (not officially), but allow cross-references (into some extend). But general manager program for it is missing. I mean a program to link various pieces of info together – pictures to contacts, contacts to notes, conversations to projects, projects to files etc. for all that exist separarate application databases but there is NONE to put those pieces together (note, that I do not mean to keep them necessarily within Pagico application, although a possibility, but rather interlink to/from other applications).
There is a very competitive application called Evernote, but it does not provide much sequentiality based on dates, categories or contacts.
Now to the Pagico possibilities – if Apple approves that and you decide to go this way- could be A CENTRAL REPOSITORY for all. Like a central manager. Plus ability to add extras to anything – like info to files, conversation commments to contacts, or additional info not provided by contact app etc.
For that I suggest to create icon based interface among the sides of the screen, with each icon clearly representing a function – sort of app icons with short description. Then allow to throw in anything onto clear middle – dashboard – for adding/connecting various pieces of info.
Technically I do not know if that would be possible – like to externally access any type of app or its data at least through export/import – but would be really cool.
That is how I imagine Pagico to be THE APP!
Take care.
Jozef
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I would love to see Pagico for iPad, but just as much (if not more) I’d love to see the little Pagico “quick entry” app for iPhone. My most common GTD issue is having a day away from my desktop computer and thinking of a bunch of “to dos”, which end up going into a note file on my iPhone… and then the notes don’t get entered into a GTD system before some of them have come due! As a result, for a while I used OmniFocus just so I could manage the same data on my iPhone and desktop computer, but I prefer the power and flexibility of Pagico. I guess the ideal would be a sophisticated viewer/manager for iPad (including the ability to link directly to emails in Mail stored on IMAP servers as to-dos!), and a simpler list/add-task manager for iPhone… with everything dumping info directly into Pagico via MobileMe so that there’s no worry about things being out-of-sync, but with a backup option for “direct sync” for those times we need to get our data synchronized sans Internet!
@Jay and all,
Thanks for the input! It really helps shaping the upcoming iPhone app, which is in the work now. We’ll for sure disclose more details later.
Thanks!