This week we’re adding another highly requested feature.  I thunk it’s aptly titled “Daily Journal” though most folks might think of it as Reminders.  It boils down to this: in preferences you can opt to receive a daily journal of your ToDos (and Lists).  The email will get sent out once a day at 5a.m.

In the future …

The look & feel of that email will improve.  You’ll be able to set a specific frequency & time of day to have your journal sent.

Note that this feature shouldn’t be confused with another upcoming feature: Alerts.  Alerts will be like an alarm clock on a per ToDo basis.  Alerts are valuable … hopefully the Daily Journal will be just as useful.  Also, we snuck in a few other tweaks this week (mostly design & what we hope are user experience improvements).

Finally, some new features … nothing really big, though:

• Emailing to you everywheretodos.com address now let’s the Body of the email become the Todo’s Notes (currently the Subject of the Email is the actual ToDo task)
• Emailing with a Subject beginning with “list:” creates a list instead of a ToDo; and the body of that email can generate a set of list items (where each new line in the body is a ToDo task).
• The iPhone experience is being overhauled & what’s available now is much better than the old version — but still has a little work to be done
• New improved Add List functionality lets you add the list & the list’s items — quickly
• After deleting a List, you have the same Undelete option as you currently do for list items
• Some small design enhancements, too

That’s it for now & probably for a few weeks too.

Another short (but sweet) update:

1. You can now drag items from one list to another
2. You can now re-order, via drag & drop, all lists
3. You can drag & drop items from lists to the Trash bin

Not to be confused with Email and ToDos, which lets you add ToDos by just sending an email.

Now, while viewing a list just click on the i next to a list name & you can send an email to a list of recipients (along with a message).  The list and other useful information will appear in the email too.

A small number of features, tweaks & bug fixes were rolled out today.  Also, the overall design was re-worked to help save space on pages for the lists & to make way for some other upcoming features (more on that later).

Enjoy.

…it’s a feature.

Now you can share a list and let others add items.  They’ll need a “key” which you set; from your list.  Just click the i next to your list; make it collaborative by checking that particular box.  Set your password & start sharing.

We’ll be adding a feature soon, to allow easy & direct emailing from your list.

This feature is great for showers, shopping lists & a whole lot more.  Leave a comment with your feedback and suggestions for other places this might be useful.

When using the “Edit in Place” functionality … 

Previously, this was done by single clicking a ToDo item;

Now, you have to Double Click items.

A demo video will be posted soon.  The background on this change revolves around related bugs that had to be resolved; and this — for some strange reason — was the only way.  If it can resolved in another way single vs. double clicking to edit will become a preference.

… are accessible at beta.everywhereToDos.com:

1. Slightly new design
2. Collaborative lists
3. Better iPhone experience

… or maybe optimization is better way to describe some recent changes:

• Bug Fix in IE 7 for todo info management (the i)
• Added a preference to use strikethroughs
• Lists can now be collapsed & a list state is now host stored
• Lots of prototype.js optimization
• Validation for entry forms updated
• Trash is undo-able
• … and more

Some upcoming changes:

• netvibes OWA
• improved iPhone UI
• clean up header links
• make lists re-orderable, via drag & drop
• keyboard shortcuts
• new user list suggestions
• more optimization

… that’s it for now.

I’ll be posting videos & screen grabs soon (for this & other areas of the site); but the iPhone stuff is so easy and is intended to be so familiar, there isn’t much need for lengthy set of instructions.

Just access everywhereToDos.com like you would in any browser; you’ll get sent to the proper iPhone specific login page. Overall, the experience is very iPhone & a little stripped down for now. There are still a couple small open items (like making a better “datepicker” & cleaning up a todo item’s info form).

But I don’t own an iPhone? You can publish todos via email (set up a pin_number in preferences to enable that feature). I’m still looking into a low cost SMS solution, as well.