Todew

Tony Mei | Mar 23, 2010 Productivity

User rating:

(9 votes, average: 3.56 out of 5)

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Face it: most of the to-do apps that run rampant in the App Store are filled with clutter and difficult to navigate, making them useless. It’s not fun having to spend more time organizing your day’s events then actually doing your day’s events. Todew, in the words of its developer SomanticContact, is a “no-frills, yet powerful to-do app that won’t waste your time”, is sounds like exactly what the App Store needs.

Todew’s interface is fast, sleek and simple. No unnecessary buttons to fumble around with. No option panels to get lost in. Adding the day’s events is super efficient and easy. Press a button. Make a title. Pick a day and a color. Done. My biggest gripe with the built-in iPod Touch/iPhone Calendar is that it coerces you to make a time for your event, or else use the generic ‘All-Day’ feature. Thankfully, Todew takes care of this by only sorting the events into different days, which makes for a more simple and efficient process.

The app very nicely straddles the line between functionality and simplicity, but I would love to see a few added features. A repeated-events option would certainly be appreciated. Perhaps an alarm? The ability to search through old tasks? A miscellaneous notes function for jotting down a quick thought? There is much room for improvement and the app’s reviews are swamped with suggestions, but the developer remains quick and fast with new updates and enhancements.

And if you aren’t tired about my mindless gushing yet: you can even activate the Emoji keyboard from within the app by just making an event called ‘Emoji’. And yes, Emoji the cute little Japanese icon keyboard that developer’s make apps that charge you for activating. A very nice touch onto an already superior product, I highly recommend Todew for those looking for a simpler, better way to get your day organized.