Category: iOS

Note To Self: how to create tasks in Asana – the fast way

Note to Self Mail and Asana

If you are using the mail import feature of Asana, you can speed up the notes with Note To Self Mail. The app creates notes in Asana in seconds.

Setup Note To Self Mail for Asana

You can create tasks and conversations from email addresses associated with Asana. Check which email address is associated by open up Asana and go to “My Profile Settings > Email Forwarding”.

1. Add the Asana email address to Note To Self Mail

Add the Asana email address x@mail.asana.com to Note To Self Mail. You can also set the label to “Asana” or any other descriptive name.

You can create conversations by using [team-name]@mail.asana.com. For example, marketing@mail.asana.com goes to the Marketing team, and customer-success@mail.asana.com goes to the Customer Success team.

Note to Self Mail new email setting
Note To Self Mail > Settings > Add email …

2. Adjust the subject

Asana uses the subject as a main source of a new note. Set the subject to “Use first line of note”. This ensures, that the first line is used as subject and all the other text lines are moved to the description of the task.

Note to Self Mail subject settings
Note To Self Mail > Settings > Add email … > Subject

3. Check your “from” email address

When using Gmail, your login id is used as sender address. If you use a custom SMTP server, you can specify the sender email in SMTP settings. In this case you have to make sure that this email is the same as the one used in Asana settings (see 1.).

Usage

Now, you can send any task to Asana. Tasks emailed will appear in your My Tasks list.

  • The subject line will be the task name
  • The body will be the task description
  • All email attachments will be attached to the task
  • You can cc teammates to add them as task collaborators

A detailed description of the possibilities are listed in Asana’s documentation: Emailing Tasks.

Now, you can send any note to Asana. With the following text …

screenshot of Note to Self Mail to create a note

… a new task will be created in Asana …

task in Asana web app

You might notice, that the task was placed in the correct project. The subject is set to the task title. All the other contents of the input (line 2 up to the end) are moved to the task description. That’s it!

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Note To Self: how to quickly create tasks in Wunderlist

Note to Self Mail and Wunderlist

If you are using the mail import feature of Wunderlist, you can speed up the tasks with Note To Self Mail. The app creates tasks in Wunderlist in seconds.

Note: as Wunderlist was acquired by Microsoft and is therefore not available after 6th of May 2020, feel free to check out an alternative task manager like Trello, Evernote, Omnifocus, Asana or any other.

Thank you 6 Wunderkinder for this great app!

Setup Note To Self Mail for Wunderlist

1. Add the Wunderlist email address to Note To Self Mail

Add the email address me@wunderlist.com to Note To Self Mail. You can also set the label to “Wunderlist” or any other descriptive name.

Note to Self Mail new email setting
Note To Self Mail > Settings > Add email …

2. Adjust the subject

Wunderlist uses the subject as name of a new task. Set the subject to “Use first line of note”. This ensures, that the first line is used as name and all the other text lines are moved to the description of the task.

Note to Self Mail subject settings
Note To Self Mail > Settings > Add email … > Subject

Usage

Now, you can send any task to Wunderlist. With the following text …

screenshot of Note to Self Mail to create a note

… a new task will be created in Wunderlist …

task in Wunderlist app

The task was placed in the inbox list and was tagged with “home”. All the other contents of the input (line 2 up to the end) are moved to the notes of the task. That’s it!

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Note To Self: how to quickly create notes in Evernote

Note to Self Mail and Evernote

If you are using the mail import feature of Evernote, you can improve this behaviour with Note To Self Mail. The app creates notes in Evernote in seconds.

Setup Note To Self Mail for Evernote

1. Get your Evernote email address

[…] Your Evernote email address is a unique address you can use to save emails into Evernote and looks something like this: username.5199b42@m.evernote.com. To find your Evernote email address, go to your account settings […] as described in documentation.

2. Add your Evernote email address to Note To Self Mail

Add this email address to Note To Self Mail. You can also set the label to “Evernote” or any other descriptive name.

Note to Self Mail new email setting
Note To Self Mail > Settings > Add email …

3. Adjust the subject

Evernote uses the subject as a main source of a new note. Set the subject to “Use first line of note”. This ensures, that the first line is used as subject and all the other text lines are moved to the body of the note.

Note to Self Mail subject settings
Note To Self Mail > Settings > Add email … > Subject

Usage

There are some shortcuts or special chars that can be used in the subject of the mail. All available features are described in Evernote’s documentation: How to save email into Evernote.

The simplest structure to create a note in Evernote is the following:

[Title of note] ![optional date for reminder] @[notebook] #[tag]

Sending a note with the following text …

screenshot of Note to Self Mail creating a note

… will appear in Evernote as a note …

task in Evernote

You might notice, that the note got an alert (tomorrow) and was placed in the correct notebook and tagged with “home”. All the other contents of the input (line 2 up to the end) are moved to the notes body. That’s it!

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Note To Self: new features that make your notes even faster

Note To Self Mail icon on blue background

The latest update 1.10 introduces a lot of new features that make your notes even faster. This includes features that improve the usability and also reduce the size of the note.

One of the main improvements is the customizable toolbar. This allows a custom positioning of the most used actions above the keyboard. There are different actions available to add and manage attachments, open the archive or send the note.

To make the notes smaller (and therefore send them faster), images can now be resized for sending. For this, a fixed size can be set or (to make things more flexible) the size of the images can be selected before sending.

Additional new features are:

  • Customizable app icon: default, dark, light
  • Preview of the note contents in share extension
  • Spanish localization … hola!
  • Support dynamic font sizes

Beside this, a large number of minor issues on layout and functionality have been fixed:

  • Updated design to handle dark mode of iOS 13
  • Fixed cursor jumping during text editing
  • Fixed layout issues when changing from landscape to porttrait (and vise versa)
  • Action extension can now handle more content types
  • Characters < and > are now displayed correctly in the HTML version of the mail

Stay tuned, there are more new features to come in the next release!

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Swift: Audioaufnahmen mit AVAudioRecorder

Swift logo

In Swift lassen sich Audioaufnahmen sehr komfortabel und einfach über die Klasse AVAudioRecorder realisieren. Beim Initialisieren der Klasse lassen sich bereits Codec, Samplerate, Anzahl der Kanäle und einige andere wichtige Einstellungen festlegen. Hier ein einfaches Code-Beispiel:

class AudioViewController : UIViewController, AVAudioRecorderDelegate
{
    // [...]
 
    var audioRecorder: AVAudioRecorder!
     
    func initAudioRecorder()
    {
        let settings: [String : Any] = [
            AVSampleRateKey: 16000.0,
            AVFormatIDKey: kAudioFormatMPEG4AAC,
            AVNumberOfChannelsKey: 1,
            AVEncoderAudioQualityKey: AVAudioQuality.low.rawValue
        ]
         
        let audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
        do {
            try audioSession.setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryRecord)
            try audioRecorder = AVAudioRecorder(url: getFileurl()!, settings: settings)
            try audioSession.setActive(true)
        }
        catch let error as NSError {
            print("AVAudioRecorder error: \(error.localizedDescription)")
        }
     
        audioRecorder.delegate = self
        audioRecorder.isMeteringEnabled = true
        audioRecorder.prepareToRecord()
         
        let displayLink:CADisplayLink = CADisplayLink(target: self, selector: #selector(updateMeters))
        displayLink.add(to: RunLoop.current, forMode: RunLoopMode.commonModes)
    }
     
    func updateMeters()
    {
        audioRecorder.updateMeters()
         
        if audioRecorder.isRecording
        {
            let time = NSInteger(audioRecorder.currentTime)
            // ...
        }
 
        // TOOD: do any updates e.g. for the UI (update displayed record time, ...)
    }
 
    @IBAction func startRecord(_ sender: AnyObject)
    {
        audioRecorder.record()
    }
 
    @IBAction func stopRecord(_ sender: AnyObject)
    {
        audioRecorder.stop()
    }
     
    func audioRecorderDidFinishRecording(_ recorder: AVAudioRecorder, successfully flag: Bool)
    {
        // Add audio to attachments
        let audioData = try? Data(contentsOf: getFileurl()!)
        if audioData != nil
        {
            // TOOD: handle audio data
        }
    }
     
    func getFileurl() -> URL?
    {
        let fileManager = FileManager.default
        let urls = fileManager.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask)
        let documentDirectory = urls[0] as URL
        let audioURL = documentDirectory.appendingPathComponent("audio.m4a")
         
        return audioURL
    }
}

Notiz an mich: jetzt noch schneller mit Postausgang

hand with phone

Die schnellste Notiz-App wird nun noch schneller: erstellte Notizen werden nun im Postausgang gespeichert und im Hintergrund gesendet. Damit entfällt das lästige Warten, bis die Notiz gesendet wurde. Und: Du behältst den Überblick, welche Notizen zuletzt erstellt wurden.

Was ist noch neu?

  • Viele Notiz- oder Aufgaben-Apps (Evernote, Trell, Any.do, Wunderlist, …) unterstützen den Import von Aufgaben über Email, d.h. eine Email an diese Dienste erstellt automatisch eine neue Aufgabe. Notiz an mich hilft dabei, das richtige Format zu erstellen. So wird bspw. häufig der Betreff als Aufgabe und der Inhalte der Email als Beschreibung verwendet.
  • Wir haben das Today-Widget aktualisiert: in den Einstellungen lässt sich nun festlegen, welche Aktionen (in welcher Reihenfolge) auf dem Widget dargestellt werden sollen.

Du kannst das Update der iOS-App im AppStore laden.

13 wichtige Dinge, die Deine nächste mobile App enthalten sollte

smartphone using the camera app in a hand

Es gibt viele Dinge, die eine gute App ausmachen. Hier ein paar Gedankenstützen, die bei der Umsetzung einer App helfen können:

  1. Feedback System (E-Mail oder Feedback-Formular)
  2. Fokussiere auf Benutzerfreundlichkeit
  3. Personalisierung (Einstellungen für Datenschutz, Schriftarten/Farben/Größen)
  4. Halte die App einfach und implementiere nur die Basisfunktionen
  5. Denke daran: es ist nur ein Telefon
  6. Wenn Anmeldung, dann auch über Social Media?
  7. Vermeide eine Art “Webbrowser” mit den gleichen Funktionen einer mobilen Webseite
  8. Weniger ist manchmal mehr – frage nicht nach zu vielen Informationen
  9. Ändere nichts (beim Umwandeln in eine mobile App, sollte sichergestellt sein, dass keine Features ausgelassen werden oder schwer auffindbar sind)
  10. Analysen einbinden
  11. Möglichkeiten zu Offline-Nutzung
  12. Gamification (Gamification ermöglicht es dem Nutzer, interaktiv zu sein und Spaß beim Verwenden der App zu haben)
  13. Fokussiere auf Geschwindigkeit (langsame Apps machen keinen Spaß)

Inspiration: thenextweb.com
Bildnachweis: unsplash.com/@chiro

Notiz an mich: die schnellste App für Deine Notizen

hand with phone

“Notiz an mich” hilft Dir dabei, Notizen möglichst schnell in Dein Email-Postfach zu bekommen. Und das ohne großen Aufwand und Umwege. Man könnte sagen: es ist die schnellste Notiz-App.

“Notiz an mich” ist nicht zum Verwalten Deiner Notizen gedacht, sie bietet aber dennoch alles, was man von einer Notiz-App erwartet:

– Verfassen von Notiztexten
– Anhängen von Fotos oder Dateien
– Erstellen von Skizzen

Zudem bietet die App die Möglichkeit, unterschiedliche E-Mail-Adressen als Empfänger anzugeben und die Notizen auch über ein eigenes Emailkonto zu senden.

Jetzt im AppStore laden: https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/notiz-an-mich/id1135553707?mt=8