February 27, 2010 - 9:19 am
I’m happy to announce that a new version of Action Lists GTD Task Manager is now available in the App Store. Highlights of this version include:
- An “Active” status has been added that will allow users to better plan out their projects. (Active tasks don’t appear in action lists.)
- Automatic task queuing that promotes Active tasks to Next Actions whenever a task is completed. (This is sometimes referred to as “sequential projects”.)
- A new “Due Soon” feature that highlights tasks as their due date is approaching.
- Localizations. Action Lists is now available in English, German, French, Spanish, and Japanese.
A full list of changes in this version is below. For instructions on how to use these new features, please see the Action Lists documentation.
February 21, 2010 - 5:41 pm
As a native of a relatively typical middle-American town, it’s easy to forget that most of the world doesn’t speak English. The iPhone is an international phenomenon though, and millions of its users either don’t speak English or don’t speak English as their first language. Even though language may separate us, the intimate relationship that people have with their iPhone is universal. iPhones go everywhere with their owners and they contain incredible amounts of personal information. People feel a connection with their iPhone, so it makes sense that they want to operate it in their mother tongue.
With this in mind, I’m translating the next version of Action Lists into a handful of languages. For those of you unfamiliar with the process, getting your iPhone app translated actually involves two separate processes. “Internationalization” is the process of tagging the strings in your program that you want to have translated. “Localization” is the process of presenting translated versions of those strings to the user. I’m not going to go into great depth about the process of internationalizing and localizing your app (Apple has pretty good documentation on the subject), but I will share some of the tips I discovered while localizing Action Lists; things that I wish I had known when I started.
