Gordon's Tech

[UPDATE: Simplenote tech support is working on a fix for the bug that manifested with 15.3.1. I have migrated for several reasons so I will ...

I like having local Spotlight indexed "standard" file format archives of completed tasks and calendar items. This is not a popular...

Calendars 5 for iOS makes Google Calendar useable -- at a fraction of the cost of Fantastical. It reminds me of PalmOS DateBk 5 and 6 . For...

I've used Appigo's ToDo app for about 12 years (with Toodledo at first). It's had problems over the years, but in general it...

Even since iOS 11 editing in Appigo’s Todo Cloud.app has been buggy for me on iPad and iPhone alike. Just aggravating. Feels like they faile...

Two years after  Simplenote.app for Mac was released with broken search  it is now fixed in version 1.2. A product I rely on is not only ali...

It’s been over a year since I first posted that iCloud invitations to a non-iCloud (ex: Google) account have been broken since 2011 . Briefl...

https://www.icloud.com/#settings  currently shows an “Advanced” subsection for restoring Contacts. It provides options to restore an iCloud ...

I last wrote about migrating contacts from Outlook/Exchange server to OS X in 2011 . Back then one of the issues with migration then was th...

Apple has a support doc on backing up iCloud data with a less than ideal recommendation for macOS Notes.app backup … Archive or make copie...

Simplenote.app, an Automattic product I use a zillion times a day, is less dead than I thought. They just released a version for Android, I ...

I think I know how Apple screwed this up. It’s one of those evolutionary path-dependency things. Their iCloud calendar is the child of their...

A book project  forced me to dig into a perennially painful topic — Calendar sharing and subscription in iOS and OS X (MacOS Yosemite) for G...

Appigo has deferred work on archive and export of tasks and projects for at least two years and possibly longer. When I paid Toodledo to pro...

Travel Time for Appointments in Apple Calendar  (Yosemite) is a nice feature, but it’s not compatible with Google Calendar. I suspect travel...

Please don’t put data into iOS Notes. Really, it’s quite horrid [1] If you do you may find it’s stuck there. We ran into this when my daugh...

We need a way to remind #1 of certain tasks he has trouble remembering.  Yeah, a lot of kids have trouble remembering things, but #1 has a ...

I don’t use iCloud for much - Apple’s cloud functionality is almost as lacking as its reliability. Our family has used Google Calendar for 7...

Before the Omni Group created OmniOutliner , there was  Symantec MORE 3.1 (Mac) and GrandView 2.0 (DOS)  [1]. I was a heavy user of MORE, bu...

[This post was first written in 2013 and then revised in April 2016.] When Emily said she was interested in Trello , on a day when I was at...