TeneoMobile nicely integrates with the iPhone’s core features: Maps, Safari, Calendar, Telephony and Mail – be sure to check out the free download.

Using the very latest in Natural Language Processing & Computational Linguistics, Sol can help you with any queries regarding our company and its software products.

Her advanced intelligence and natural language capability mean she can instantly respond to questions (even the misspelt or ambiguous ones), just like a human conversation.  You can also interrupt her, ask about something completely different and then return to your original question and she won’t bat a (virtual) eyelid, picking up where you left off, every time.

Download the latest version of DorisDesktop

This latest version fixes a lot of usability bugs and is recommended for all users.  This will be the last update before I introduce the new multiple view layout that will make a History view possible and some other nice surprises.

Here’s what’s updated:

• Fixed ability to tab through fields when adding new task
• Disabled multiple selection of tasks
• Added command r to refresh tasks and sync
• Badge added to icon in doc for current number of open tasks in Today
• Fixed wrong task and group selection bugs
• Total task count added to window title
• Group folder icon based on type: group, today or inbox

For this last item, if you have a folder called Today (it’s not mandatory) you’ll get a nice checkmark icon for it.  And if you name one of your groups Inbox you’ll get the appropriate icon.

Just in time for the Royal Wedding, check out the latest app we’ve just built, Kings and Queens, currently featured by Apple as the iPad App of the Week.  The app was a collaboration between Trade Mobile and Harper Collins and we were hired by Trade Mobile to build it.

The app features interactive timelines of the history of the British monarchy, family trees, maps and video commentary by David Starkey to guide you through the app.

UPDATE I: Kings and Queens is also #1 in Books now (in the UK)

UPDATE II: watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuUPpxkzMko

UPDATE III: Harper Collins press release

UPDATE IV: featured by Apple in What’s Hot

Check out the latest version of DorisDesktop – I’ve done a complete UI overhaul and it’s much more pleasant to use.  UI improvements include:

• Apple Mail like interface with task counts per group
• date creation and update times in collapsible panel
• better keyboard controls:
  • use <command> N for new Task
  • use <command> G for new Group
  • <spacebar> to toggle completed Task (Full Keyboard Access must be enabled in system prefs)
  • <del> key to delete any selected Group or Task
  • <esc> to dismiss any panel
• much better speed/performance than all other versions
• see the CHANGELOG for the list of changes

The last vital features that’s missing is the ability to drag tasks between groups, this will be implemented in the next release.

Give this early beta a try while it’s still free and please send any comments, all feedback appreciated!

After quite a bit of work a new version of DorisDesktop is ready, you can download it here.  While in beta the app will be free.  My plan is to make the desktop version of Doris the most full-featured of all the ways of accessing Doris, it’s where all the new ideas and feature requests will be tested out.

In general I’ve become a bit fed up with web apps, mainly because you have to learn substantially different interfaces with each one.  Desktop apps, especially on the Mac, not only get around this shortcoming, they also allow you to link in directly to some rich resources you use every day:

• your Calendar
• the Address Book
• your Email
• photos and docs

Managing these items on the web is possible, but it’s always more painful.  A desktop app provides the best experience and can sync with the cloud and be just a single click away.

What is DorisDesktop?

It’s just a desktop app that provides an additional, hopefully easier way to get to all the tasks stored in your online Doris account.  It’s main advantages are:

• it launches fast
• it runs in the background and is only one click away
• being on the desktop, you’ll be able to better integrate task management into your existing workflow

What’s new in this version of DorisDesktop

• drag and drop to re-order tasks now works properly (same for groups coming soon)
• you can easily add notes to your tasks
• you can drag URLs from your browser into DorisDesktop and they becomes tasks
• security is improved with passwords now saved to the Keychain
• the login workflow is improved
• the app is globally available from its icon in the menu bar
• interface improvements for adding and deleting tasks
• see the CHANGELOG for the full list of changes, and note the API has been updated

What’s not working yet

• currently you can’t drag & drop to re-order groups
• nor can you drag tasks into different groups, this is planned for the next release
• one-click access to bring DorisDesktop to the foreground no matter what you’re doing – to get this working I need to do some more work to be able to record keyboard shortcuts

Bugs

One bug I’ve discovered is if you drag to re-order, and in the process drag your task outside the task list, eg, into the groups list, the app thinks it’s a URL, I’ll fix this for the next release.  Also, in some cases the task list and note description doesn’t update properly, this will be fixed.

Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are supported for all the basic features:

• <spacebar> to add a new task to the current group
• <enter> to edit the current task
• <backspace> to delete the current task
• <cmd> , to launch Doris’ prefs, currently where your can login

Feedback

As always I’d love to hear your feedback, either here in the comments, at Uservoice, or just shoot me an email to support@dorisapp.com.  I’ve updated the Doris Uservoice account with the tasks that have been completed.  According to their overview my feedback isn’t looking too bad.

Read more about the app here.

You can find the feed at the bottom of right column on all pages on this site.

Yahoo had changed the HTML on their login page which we scrape to allow for easy logins from our app.  The fix, which consisted in changing one line of HTML, took over a week to be accepted by Apple!

Apologies for the inconvenience.