As you maybe already know, we’ve been upgrading the 7.xx version a lot for the past 1.5 years, and we will continue to do so. All of our existing customers have thus gotten dozens of very significant upgrades for free. We could’ve easily released these upgrades as version 8 long time ago, but we want to have something truly spectacular to ship as a new major version. Version 8 is most likely not coming any time soon – we will just keep improving the 7.xx line like crazy, and giving all these upgrades away for free to existing customers. There are many things we want to implement first.

In light of this decision, we’ve also decided to launch new Ultimate edition now. The Ultimate edition includes some extra exclusive features not available in Standard or Professional editions. We believe that successful people and small business owners who want to have simply the best to-do list software tool available will be especially interested in it.

We will be adding some new features only into the Ultimate edition from now. We will never stop upgrading Swift To-Do List Standard and Professional, but all “extra” premium stuff will go right into Ultimate.

We are very loyal and grateful to our existing customers. Existing customers can upgrade to Ultimate for just the price difference, which I believe is very fair, because when a completely new customer comes, he can get the Ultimate for the regular price. However, our existing customers have been already using the lower Professional edition for a long time, getting all the benefits, and now they can upgrade to Ultimate for just the price difference, and enjoy Ultimate from now on.

If you are an existing customer, then to get the upgrade, first download the latest version of Swift To-Do List. Once installed and started, you will see a new Upgrade button in the toolbar – click it.

If you are currently trialing Swift To-Do List and want to try the Ultimate edition, then use the menu Help – Trial Edition – Ultimate to switch the trial edition.

OK, but enough with the back-story! What are actually the new features added in the Ultimate edition, compared to the lower editions?

100 extra tree icons

Enjoy 100 extra tree icons available exclusively in the Ultimate edition. This brings the total number of icons available in the Ultimate edition to 244. In another words, there are 70% more icons in the Ultimate edition!

Two-line display of long task names

Tasks that have too long task name to fit into one line are displayed on two lines in the Ultimate edition. This gives you more information about the tasks without the need to resize the Task Name column.

Spellchecker for notes and memos

The Ultimate edition includes a spellchecker that you can use for your notes and memos. It allows you to go through all misspelled words and offer you suggestions. Or, you can enable automatic mode that underlines any misspelled words or grammatical errors. If you right-click such a word, you can choose one of the suggestions or to ignore it. It works very similarly to Microsoft Word.

Multi-level numbered lists (outlines) in notes and memos

In the Ultimate edition, you can create structured multi-level numbered lists very easily, with just a click of a single button in the notes toolbar.

More extra features in the future

We will keep adding other exclusive features only into the Ultimate edition. You will get these as free upgrades if you purchase the Ultimate edition. One such feature will be tables in notes and memos. Also, we would like to improve the spellchecker. It currently supports only English language, but we plan to release a free package of all other languages soon. However, there might be also some really big features added only into the Ultimate edition down the road, such as sub-tasks or custom columns (fields).

Things are going really great over here! We are growing our business and products big time, expanding our website, connecting with other developers and companies, and swimming in praise from Swift To-Do List customers. You can be sure that there will be many extremely exciting things coming soon (such as sync, web-access, mobile web-access, collaboration). We also plan to add a full-blown scheduling calendar and sub-tasks. Onwards!

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New Swift To-Do List 7 Ultimate edition released is a post from: Swift To-Do List Blog

Online synchronization

Update on March 29, 2011: You can synchronize Swift To-Do List with Dropbox.

This is the most important feature. We plan to ship it in 3-5 months. Is is our #1 priority. Online synchronization will allow you to easily sync Swift To-Do List databases between computers through our secured cheap tower server with just 1 click (or automatically). But not only that…

Companion web-app (Swift.me)

You will be also optionally able to access your tasks online using a web browser via our new www.swift.me service. It will be a companion web-application that will allow you to view, add and edit tasks, and more, of course. It will be faster than our current Swift To-Do List Online service. We will support encrypted https:// protocol for maximum security.

Mobile access (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, iPad, and more)

The Swift.me web-app will be accessible from various mobile devices, including iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and iPad. You will be able to view, add and edit your tasks, and more.

Simple team collaboration

Because the online synchronization will have a conflict-handling, it will be finally possible to use Swift To-Do List in a multi-user environment. At first, the team capabilities will be very basic, but we will quickly add per-to-do-list permissions settings and other useful multi-user features.

Sub-tasks

You can now move tasks up and down. Sub-tasks support will allow you to also move tasks right and left.

This feature has been requested many times and we’ve avoided it because it is fairly difficult to implement, and we were afraid that it would complicate the program too much. However, we now have a way how to add support for sub-tasks with only minor effort on our side.

It will be possible to turn the sub-tasks support on/off as needed. If you do not care for sub-tasks, you will be able to hide their support altogether. However, it will be just extra two toolbar buttons (Move task right, move task left).

We still need to figure out how will the sub-task behave (eg. What happens when you check a parent task – should all sub-tasks get checked too?), but it will be probably configurable in Options.

Database merging

You will be able to use the online synchronization on two different databases to merge them (join them into one). Joining two databases is currently not possible, and we know that some of our users will welcome this possibility.

In-line editing

This is another feature that you’ve often requested. We plan to add in-line editing support this year.

In-line editing will allow you to edit tasks directly in the task-view, without having to open the Edit Task dialog. We’ve yet not decided the final design of this feature yet, but it won’t make the program more complex.

Update on May 11, 2011: We’ve added in-line editing in Swift To-Do List 7.30.

Calendar and scheduling

After we ship all the above features, calendar (with intra-day scheduling) will be the most important feature to add next. So it will be very likely added this year as well.

Simple time tracking

We are also thinking about including a simple time tracking, so you can measure how much time you actually spend on your tasks.

Update on March 27, 2011: We’ve added time tracking in Swift To-Do List 7.26.

Your thoughts and feedback

So what do you think? Let us know. Post your comments below or email us.

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What we are working on (Online sync, mobile access, sub-tasks, and more) is a post from: Swift To-Do List Blog

Behold: New custom task-coloring!

Version 7.11 brings completely redesigned and improved task-coloring functionality:

You can now color tasks by:

• Priority
• Status
• Type
• Assigned To
• Context

New task-coloring options

But not only that! You can now choose what gets colored:

1. The relevant column (eg. Priority column for priority coloring)
2. Whole row (= all columns)
3. Or, you can color just task names

This allows a lot of combinations! This feature brings a lot of flexibility and customization goodness.

New color picker

That’s not all though – we’ve also improved the color picking window. It is now full of pleasant, uplifting, bright colors, carefully chosen by hand. Black text is readable and looks good on these colors. You can also define your custom colors, of course.

Aren’t we great? :-)

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Supported email clients include Outlook, Windows Live Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, The Bat! and possibly others – please let us know if your email client is not on the list. PocoMail is not supported, as it doesn’t support drag & drop between applications.

Basically, all you have to do is to drag & drop the email message into Swift To-Do List. You can drop it in the Notes panel or Attachments panel.

This video will show you how easy it is to attach an email to a task in Swift To-Do List. (Click “Play”)

You can also drag & drop calendar items and tasks from Outlook the same way.

To learn more about embedded file attachments, see the previous post “Swift To-Do List 7.10 released: Embedded file attachments, attach emails to tasks, and more“

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How to attach emails from Outlook to tasks (Video) is a post from: Swift To-Do List Blog