What can MLO learn from iPhone Clear ? (and the clone Koalcat’s Clear)

[John . Smith]

Hello

e.g. Have you guys ever seen "Clear" for iPhone (you'll need iOS v8)

https://vimeo.com/35693267

[ Or if you have Andriod try the free clone "Koalcat’s Clear" 

http://lifehacker.com/5993234/to-do-app-koalcats-clear-is-the-closest-youll-get-to-clear-for-android ]

Yes, it has nothing like the power of what a full-blown GTD system needs, but what it does have is a number of really slick features that make me smile just to watch the video!

I particularly like: 

1. Pull-to-expand to create a task in the right place

2. Slide right to complete

3. Slight left to delete

4. Pull down to create

5. Pinch to switch up a level

6. Long-click-item to arrange (no need to fire up the move icon at the top of the screen)

7. Click number (of children) to expand list

The way the colours work are quite fun e.g. Easy ticking stuff off and the way the change colour with a line throught them for just long enough (0.5secs?) 

What can MLO's mobile apps learn from the above?

J

P.S. Clear for iPhone costs £3.99 and has 2.5 million users ==> £10million (c. US$ 12,000,000)  in revenue so it must be doing something right !

[Stéph]

The thing about the iOS version is that it already uses each of those swipe gestures for something useful. MLO also has some very innovative navigation features like the "magic arrow", which is great for jumping to an items parent and then collapsing the outline, in steps.

One area that I would like to see improved is access to editing notes. At the moment I have to tap-and-hold, tap, tap edit, write my note edit, tap save, tap and tap again to get back to the list view. That's six actions in addition to the actual writing. If I use swipe-left to access my note for editing, I have to take _eight_ actions to do the same thing, including having to tap the "edit" button twice! I should never have to take that many steps to perform an action adn I definitely shouldn't have to go into edit mode a second time. For me, that's about the only really major flaw in the iOS UI.

I should have raised that one when Andrey started a thread asking us to write down all our main issues, for a recent update.

Stéphane