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To Do

Rosie January 31, 2010
On this page:
  1. Giving yourself a Gold Star on the To Do List
  2. Adding a task to a To Do  List
  3. Deleting a task from the To Do List
  4. Rearranging the order of tasks on the To Do lists
  5. Sharing the tasks on your To Do lists
  6. Copying the tasks on your To Do list
  7. Adding another list etc

The To Do section is a group of little to-do lists, as part of HomeRoutines.  It has three sub-lists for planning:

  • Today
  • This Week
  • Later

You can put in as many to-do items as you like in each list.

I like to use the Today list to note the most important things that I want to get done today. You might call these your Most Important Tasks. I prefer to put only 3 or 5 things on the list, because then I’m more likely to get a higher percentage of them done!


Giving yourself a Gold Star on the To Do List ^

  1. Touch To Do on the Home screen of HomeRoutines to see your list
  2. Mark an item as done, by touching the greyed-out star icon beside the task name. (You can unmark a single item by touching the star again, or touch the [Clear Stars] button at the bottom of the screen to clear all the stars.But honestly, you’re more likely to be deleting these tasks and putting in new ones for today – otherwise it would be a routine!)

If you have completed all the items in the Today list, the gold star on the home screen will light up.  It is not affected by the completion of tasks in the “This Week” and “Later” lists.

Adding a task to a To Do  List ^

  1. Touch To Do on the Home screen of HomeRoutines to see your To Do Today list
  2. Touch Edit
  3. Touch Add Task to use the keyboard to type in a new task
  4. Touch Return when you’ve entered the task, and you’ll automatically be taken to a new text box for your new task
  5. When you’ve finished editing tasks, touch Done

Deleting a task from the To Do List ^

  1. Touch To Do on the Home screen of HomeRoutines to see your To Do lists
  2. Touch Edit
  3. Touch the red ‘minus’ icon next to the task you want to delete.
    A confirmation Delete button will appear on the right.
  4. Touch  the confirmation Delete button.
  5. When you’ve finished editing your tasks, touch Done

Rearranging the order of tasks on the To Do lists ^

  1. Touch To Do on the Home screen of HomeRoutines to see your To Do lists
  2. Touch Edit
  3. Touch the three-lined icon Dragnext to the task you want to move. It will “stick” to your finger.
  4. Drag the task to its new place in the list (or another list) and “let go”
  5. When you’ve finished editing your tasks, touch Done

Sharing the tasks on your To Do lists ^

  1. Touch To Do on the Home screen of HomeRoutines to see your To Do lists
  2. Touch the action button at the bottom right of the screen (with the little arrow on it)
  3. Tap Send as Email
  4. Address and send the email message

Copying the tasks on your To Do list ^

  1. Touch To Do on the Home screen of HomeRoutines to see your To Do lists
  2. Touch the action button at the bottom right of the screen (with the little arrow on it)
  3. Tap Copy task list
  4. The list is now on your clipboard for you to do whatever with. Pasting, probably.

Adding another list etc ^

Sorry, you can’t do this.  After many requests, we are planing to add the ability to have different named lists, as well as a completed-items list. But if you need your to do list to have due dates, priorities and contexts and whatnot,  you might need to have a different app for that list.  That’s okay.