Andrea Olivato’s Blog

Yesterday Remember the Milk staff announced their official app for Android. If you want to see how it looks jump to gallery.

Their app is available for pro users only, but if you want to try it before buying there’s 15 day trial period offered together with the download. Membership costs only $25 / year and got many other improvements.

I installed the application directly from the android market ( ~1.4Mb download ) and sticked it on the home screen. After the first login it performs a full synchronization with the server, downloading all tasks, both completed and not. The main screen shows today tasks, but it is possible to switch to other useful views from the main menu : Today, Tomorrow, This Week and List (all tasks divided by group). Using the menu it is also possible to browse completed tasks, perform a search and manually refresh the list.

Obviously it is possible to add tasks and new lists, organize the tickets in the lists and perform quite any operation you usually do via their website.

The settings screen allows the user to set up the app on the phone, managing useful details about location (possibility to integrate with gps system) , sync and tasks themselves. I really appreciated the possibility to choose to sync the phone only when wi-fi access is enabled.

Finally the app offers a nice widget to integrate in the home screen.

Below you can have a look to a quick gallery of the app running on my Tytn II with Android 1.5.

Reading Federico‘s article about the Remember the Milk AIR client get me more interested on RTM ( still Remember the Milk, not Read The Manual ) and curious about the possibilities offered by this Service.

Looking around the net I found that this guy created a nice integration beetween RTM and Gnome DE, using the Deskbar Applet. I’m not a Deskbar fan, I thinks it’s quite heavy on loading and I always preferred not adding it to my panel, however I decided to use it only for RTM tasking, disabling all others plugins.

In the screenshot above you can see the nice result I got with a 30secs installation. Just downloaded the plugin, extracted it (withouth the directory, just the two files) indide my :

~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible

In some enviroments the directory can also be

~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/handlers

Then I just added the applet to my panel, disabled all plugins from it except the RTM one and configured Remember The Milk, confirming in the browser the possibility to access the APIs.

In the above picture it was shown what happens when you digit on the deskbar a name for a task that you have not inserted yet. Below you can see what happes when you digit something that is both contained in one ore more tasks but can also be a new one.

If you click on the Icon or on the text you will be browser redirected to website while if you click on the arrows you will be prompted for new interaction and/or more informations will be shown.

As example below you can see what happens when clicking on the arrow near the Add Task instruction: you can choose in which folder save your new task…

If you want to modify or view a task you can click on the arrow near the name of the old task and this is what you get:

Conclusions: useful instrument, nice interaction with Gnome DE. I like it!