2010
I haven't been blogging much lately, but that's partly because I was on vacation for a week and partly because I was working on this:
http://www.thoughtdelimited.org/android/notetoself/
It's a fairly simple app built with the standard Android API, but it meets MY need for a note/reminder list that is right there on my Android home screen and lets me see all of my reminders without having to go into the application. And being able to dictate my reminder (I put in the dedicated dictation button because my Swype keyboard doesn't have a key for dictation like the stock Android keyboard does) makes it easy to add a quick note if you can tolerate a mistranslation here or there.
This version is free, so if you have an Android device running 2.1 or higher, feel free to check it out.
Jun 28, 2010 at 8:51 AM Brian, I'm impressed with that app. The interface is nice and simple, and I really love the widget. Nice work.
Jun 28, 2010 at 9:23 AM @Tom: Thanks, I'm glad that you like it.
Jun 29, 2010 at 8:07 AM Brian,
Nice little app. Seems to be working very nicely on my little HTC Magic with Cyanogen 5.0.8 android ROM. Speech recognition and all.
Are you going to add a sync with Google Task? (Not sure there's an API for it yet mind)
By the way here's link to generate a QRCode direct to the market: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=6&d=market%3A%2F%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dpname%3Aorg.swartzfager.NoteToSelf
Jun 29, 2010 at 8:25 AM @Stephen: Thanks for the tip regarding the QR code. I knew there must be a way to get/generate a QR, but I hadn't taken the time to look into it.
Not sure about whether I want to add a cloud-storage component to the app (via Google Task or some other method). It would allow the notes recorded in the app to be accessible to other media, but it would also add some more complexity to the app.
Jun 29, 2010 at 9:44 AM Hey Brian, I actually use the Google's zxing library to generate a QRcode in CFML. If you want that code, ping me, it's stupidly simple.