We are happy that many of you find the Secure Sync, our mobile apps and the web-app for Swift To-Do List helpful. You might have noticed that when using the Secure Sync, you mostly don’t get bothered with task edit conflicts and such. That’s because we want to make it as easy to use as possible. That is however a complicated job and occasionally in some edge cases, given the complexity and the amount of data we are managing in the Secure Sync, problems may take a little longer to solve than we would like to. We always appreciate your patience and assistance in identifying the root of the issue.

Now the big news – Swift To-Do List 10 is coming this year! If you own the current Swift To-Do List 9 subscription license, it will be a free upgrade for you.

Our main goal for Swift To-Do List 10 is now a long-awaited full Scheduler/Calendar. We will also introduce some other new features and improvements in the Secure Sync infrastructure.

Apart from that we plan on introducing new Team features to make it easier and more productive to use Swift To-Do List in organizations.

Also, updates to our companion mobile apps – such as background sync – are one the way.

We are super glad for all the positive feedback about Swift To-Do List helping you with your every day life, especially the Secure Sync. That gives us inspiration to continue working on Swift To-Do List and make it even better for you. Thank you!

May Swift To-Do List help you make 2016 truly great for you!

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• Coming Soon: New Swift To-Do List 8 with subtasks!

What we are up to in 2016: Swift To-Do List 10 is coming is a post from: Swift To-Do List Blog

Download the new Swift To-Do List and check it out for yourself.

This is a very exciting release, as it takes Swift To-Do List to a completely new level.

Check out what’s new in the new version 9 and see the screenshots.

Among other things, the new version allows you to get organized with spreadsheets and sticky notes.

What happens when you can organize all your tasks, notes, reminders, AND spreadsheets AND sticky notes in a single organizer software?

Well, you can manage and track all your stuff in a single place! This is extremely liberating and gets you in total control of your work and life.

The new version has been received extremely well – most people who’ve used it absolutely love it.

There are more things to come, too!

What’s coming next?

1. Finished Sync feature. We are working hard on finishing the sync feature (currently in Beta), which allows you to collaborate with other people and keep Swift To-Do List synchronized on multiple computers using a secure cloud. Swift To-Do List 9 includes a completely new sync feature re-written from scratch, and we are doing our maximum to finish it.

2. Companion mobile apps for iOS and Android, planned to be released in late February 2014. At first, these will be simple (mostly an inbox), but eventually they should allow you to do important operations with your tasks and notes.

3. Companion web-app, planned to be released in February 2014. The new web-app will more feature-rich, and resemble the Windows version. You will be able to use it from any computer, even when you are on the go. It will be of course fully synchronized with the Windows and mobile versions.

I think that year 2014 will be the biggest year for Swift To-Do List yet.

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Swift To-Do List 9 released! is a post from: Swift To-Do List Blog

Today, I am very excited, because I will show you some of the new stuff from the upcoming release.

Version 8 brings multiple new incredible features, which can dramatically improve the way you work and organize your life.

We’ve put an enormous amount of effort and innovation into version 8, and we are both very excited and very pleased with the final result.

If you’ve already purchased Swift To-Do List 7 and been using it for some time now, you will be able to upgrade to version 8 with a big discount.

If you are a new customer and purchase Swift To-Do List 7 now, or have purchased it recently, you will get a free upgrade to version 8. (“Recently” means in 90 days before the official release of version 8.)

So, what’s new in version 8?

Well, a lot. The biggest feature are probably subtasks. Just the subtasks alone are well worth the upgrade price.

New Professional (and Ultimate) edition features:

• Subtasks enable you to break down intimidating complex tasks into easily manageable chunks and plan your work better. Subtasks can dramatically boost your productivity, and reduce procrastination. How does one eat an elephant? One bite at a time. The following screenshot shows subtasks combined with item numbering:
  
  
• Hide Until field enables you to hide tasks until a specified date. It’s a “mega-snooze” for your tasks. This allows you to keep your lists short and sweet. Hide things that you don’t have to worry about for now.
  
• Automatic archiving of done tasks after a specified number of days (or even immediately). Keep your lists clean.
  

New Ultimate-only features:

• Renaming of columns/fields: Re-purpose any field, such as Type, Context or Start Date to something different. For example, rename the “Start Date” to “Shipment Date” or “Last Contacted Date”. Or, rename the “Context” field to “Client”. This is the ultimate customization – all up to you!
  
• Item numbering for to-do lists and lists. Task names can be now automatically prefixed with a number, e.g. “1. First task”, “2. Second task”, etc. This gives you a better sense of how much work is left. (“Lists” are also a new feature – read on!)

New features added to all editions:

• List, a new type of tree item beside to-do lists and memos. Lists are perfect for all non-task items. Items in Lists don’t have checkboxes, are not included in the “Tasks to be done” stats, and can be hidden by filters. Very useful for all non-actionable items, such as inventories, collections, recipes, ideas, references, and anything else that is not a task. Organize anything, not just tasks!
  
• Tasks can be now reordered in all view modes. Before, it was possible to reorder tasks only when viewing a single to-do list.
• Reminders are preserved until you dismiss them, so you won’t lose the opened reminders by exiting the program or rebooting your computer anymore.
• Filters can optionally change the view mode when set, so you can create a filter that immediately displays all tasks, then filters them.
• In notes, hyperlinks to tree items (to-do lists, memos, lists) can be created in the notes text.
• You can now use alphabetic sorting of the tree.
• New “Attachments” Options section, which allows you to customize many aspects of attachments, including what happens when you add a new attachment (Embed into Swift To-Do List database? Create shortcut? Ask me?)

Minor improvements

• Improved look and feel of all menus and toolbars, new beautiful loading screen
• New “Days Left” column which displays the number of days until Due Date.
• Tree toolbar has move right and move left buttons added, which allow you to easily manipulate to-do lists, memos and lists
• A target to-do list can be specified for tasks added via global system-wide hotkeys, so you can easily create an “inbox“
• The filters allow you to always filter for done/undone tasks, even when the Status field is enabled
• You can Ctrl+Click a tree item to switch to it and set view mode to “Selected To-Do List” at the same time. That way, you can quickly view just that one list if your view mode is set to All Lists etc.
• The window “Swift To-Do List is doing maintenance of your database” that was displayed when exiting the program is no longer displayed, unless you are running the portable version.
• When searching for tasks by typing (e.g. pressing “a” to find the first task that begins with “a”), you can now press the key repeatedly to cycle through all such tasks in the task-view.
• Improved Import Wizard now displays the original imported value as well, and correctly imports reminders.
• You can specify telephone number or a custom note for Contacts in the Manage Contacts window

What’s coming next in the 8.xx line after 8.0?

Well, A LOT of things. We are just getting started!

All the 8.xx updates will be free for all version 8 customers. And there will be many updates, with lots of new features and improvements.

This means: If you purchase version 8, you will be getting a TON of great extra features and improvements for a long, long time – all for free.

The upcoming new stuff will include:

• Multiple optimizations which will significantly speed up Swift To-Do List and reduce RAM consumption. This is coming very soon (definitely in 2012).
• Finished and polished synchronization and collaboration features, as well as companion mobile and web apps.
• Ability to create entirely custom columns (as many as you need!).
• A full-blown scheduling calendar.
• More types of tree objects, such as spreadsheets or journals (logs).
• Tables for notes.
• Beautiful skins, which will enable you to choose a theme for Swift To-Do List interface if you desire so.
• More tree icons.
• And many other things.

One thing is sure: We plan to outrageously delight you.

Do you want to play with version 8 beta?

We already have a very stable build of version 8, tested by about dozen of people – but there might still be some little quirks that only you might notice.

If you would like to help us make version 8 perfect, please contact us, and we will send you the preview release.

If you have any questions, post in comments or contact us.

PS: Yes, the subtasks are awesome! :-) We’ve made them super easy to use. In fact, I think it might be one of the best implementation of subtasks ever created. Just wait until you try them yourself.

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Coming Soon: New Swift To-Do List 8 with subtasks! is a post from: Swift To-Do List Blog

We are planning to release version 7.10 of Swift To-Do List in about a week. It will come with interesting new features.

Attach emails from Outlook (or other email programs)

Many users have requested this feature, and we listened! You will be finally able to drag & drop emails from Outlook (and other email programs) into task notes/attachments area in Swift To-Do List to attach them. This will store a copy of the email right in the Swift To-Do List database. You will be able to double-click it to open it again in Outlook (or other email program that you use) and reply to it, etc.

But that’s not all! Because we’ve made this feature very flexible, you can also attach calendar items, tasks and contacts from Outlook. You can also attach many different things from various other programs that have good drag & drop support (eg. many Microsoft Office programs, like OneNote).

Embed file attachments (= store files in Swift To-Do List)

Currently, all file attachments are shortcuts only. Therefore, these attachments don’t work if you carry your task database to another computer. Well, the version 7.10 will allow you to store files right in your task database (the .stdl file). This will make it easy to have all the relevant things in one place – tasks, notes, and now files attached to your tasks!

The biggest advantage is that if you carry the database to another computer, you still have the attached files readily available. Also, if you lose the files – you will have their copy in the database.

Other new features

We are also working on many other new features and improvements. I will talk about them later. The most important one is easy online synchronization (coming in 2-3 months). Feel free to send us your feature requests – we are always counting votes to prioritize our work.

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Coming soon: Attach emails, embed file attachments is a post from: Swift To-Do List Blog

Whoa, slow down! New website, new Swift To-Do List, new blog?

Many things have changed in the past year. We’ve decided to take things to the next level.

The development of Swift To-Do List 7 took much longer than anticipated, but you can hopefully see that the wait has been worth it. I will talk more about that in one of the following posts.

I want to apologize to everyone who expected the new major version sooner. All next releases will be coming quickly. This one took so long because we’ve basically rewritten the whole program from scratch, and we couldn’t settle for any compromises. See what’s new in Swift To-Do List 7.

We simply love creating software that you will love to use. We wouldn’t feel good about selling half-baked products.

About this blog

This blog will mostly contain posts from me (Jiri Novotny – Dextronet.com founder and chief Swift To-Do List developer). I would like to blog at least 2-3 times a week. I’m going to blog about all the following things and more:

• Swift To-Do List tips & tricks
• Productivity
• Being organized, GTD, task management
• Goal achievment
• Personal development

Subscribe to this blog today so you don’t miss all the Swift To-Do List tips and tricks – you won’t find them anywhere else. Did you know that there are some hidden features in Swift To-Do List? I will tell you about them soon.

And hey, I think that we’re going to have fun together – this blog will be all but boring. I will keep the posts short and sweet.

Feel free to post comments – whatever comes to your mind!

Our plans for the near future

The current plan is simple: New releases of Swift To-Do List with additional new and exciting features. And let me tell you, we will never stop improving Swift To-Do List!

Plans for the next year include new Team edition of Swift To-Do List and new version of Swift To-Do List Online. You can also expect some completely new products, and new major versions of our old products.

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Welcome to new Dextronet! is a post from: Swift To-Do List Blog