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[Doc]

Twitter, Urban Spoon, MegaWorm and a free flashlight app.
Oh also USB disk. I upgraded to pro because it's got a wireless drive function, otherwise you need to use itunes to put stuff on it. It's not the best substitute for a flash drive for that reason but it is quite nifty for downloading stuff on the go and I use it as my default pdf reader.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Yay, who just impulse-bought a $25 app (Remember the Milk) without checking the free version first and got stuck with something that will never be used?

I use RTM all the time, albeit the free version. The only benefit I know of to paying is that you can sync your phone app to the web version at any time--for the free version, you can only sync every 24 hours. I would like to be able to do it more often, but not for $25 I don't.

I know there are to-do list apps that add RPG functionality. Like, you set "levels" for your tasks, and when you complete them you get experience points and treasure and stuff. I need to track down one of those.

[dejavroom]

Sigh. All I wanted from RTM was that it would remind me of shit I was supposed to do, but it doesn't seem to have an alarm/reminder type of thing. What are my notes good for if they just stay there in the device? I need this motherfucker to come to life screaming and kicking when it's time for me to get shit done! I know RTM is supposed to have reminders. Maybe I need a slightly less smart phone, but I can't for the life of me understand how they're supposed to work! Same problem with Evernote...

Any suggestions?

[Carlos del Vaca]

I use RTM for an overall to do list--tasks that I need to do but that don't have a specific date or time associated with them. You can set a due date on RTM tasks, but unless you actually go into RTM and look at "Today," you won't notice. I think you can also set it up to have you e-mail you with the days tasks.

For things that I have to do on a specific day, I use the out-of-the-box Reminders app on the iPhone. That you can set up to have it notify you at a specific date and time. Also, my reminder sound is the "Sherwood Forest" trumpet blast, which sounds awesome.

[dejavroom]

I see. So, the hunt continues...

By the way, Google Goggles is officially the future, now. I feel like Deckard in Blade Runner running that bad boy on the most inane things imaginable. "So apparently this is a 'bag' of something called... 'Doritos'? Mmm."

[Carlos del Vaca]

Here's an article on the to-do RPG app.
http://lifehacker.com/5616472/epicwin-turns-your-to+do-list-into-a-role+playing-game-available-now

[Carlos del Vaca]

OK, here is a useful feature on Foursquare: I took my "restaurants I want to check out" list, previously maintained in a text file, and put it in Foursquare as a "to-do list." Then I can call it up and it will show me them on a map, tell me what's close by. That'll be useful when out and about in the city.

[JorgeFabregas]

Sigh. All I wanted from RTM was that it would remind me of shit I was supposed to do, but it doesn't seem to have an alarm/reminder type of thing. What are my notes good for if they just stay there in the device? I need this motherfucker to come to life screaming and kicking when it's time for me to get shit done! I know RTM is supposed to have reminders. Maybe I need a slightly less smart phone, but I can't for the life of me understand how they're supposed to work! Same problem with Evernote...

Any suggestions?

Is it an android phone? You can set (recurring) events in google calendar and have it email/text/etc. reminders in addition to popping up as regular old alert on your phone.

[dejavroom]

Yep, Android. I'll try some of that and let's see how it goes.

[pmcd9]

I don't have a smartphone so I don't know from foursquare, but I just made a 2400 mile trip with a 25 year old who loves it.  She checked in everywhere we went.  I must admit it seems like a lot of fun, but I was probably just feeding off of her enthusiasm. 

[Nabubrush]

2400 miles in a road vehicle with a 25-year-old . . . . you are either going to really get into whatever she's into, or the trip is going to end in 50 miles, I'd think.

[pmcd9]

She's a very sweet young lady.  Very easy to get along with.  And she went along with the flow well.

[side_show]

Vaguely back on topic - this thread made me think "oh yeah, Foursquare!" and now I have that app.  The end.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I have discovered that one guy is mayor of 52 locations in and around our town, including nearly every store in a particular shopping center. I wasted some time researching that, and figured out that if you just take the seven restaurants he's mayor of in that shopping center, he has checked into them 132 times in 60 days. So he eats pretty much every meal in those places, plus snacks.

Or he's a cheater who does "drive-by check-ins," which Foursquare discourages, but apparently can't prevent altogether.

I will destroy him. (Haven't figured out how yet.)

[Nabubrush]

Hold up - this thing actually characterizes a person as "the mayor" of a location if they visit it the most? I thought that was just a thing you guys were doing.

Hm.