Gordon's Tech

In 2009 I wrote about how it was getting harder to move contact information out of Outlook into something else (like macOS Contacts). I wr...

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'...

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...

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...

[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...

I'm rather late to this party [6], but around the time Google ended ActiveSync support for unpaid accounts [1] they added vCard  3 (199...

Our family uses a (free) Google Apps domain to manage our email, calendars, contacts, documents and so on. For years we've used Google&#...

I use Toodledo's task service every day; sometimes through Appigo's ToDo.app, sometimes through their web interface. I'm a custo...

I really think Tinderbox ($ 250 !) should have said something about this earlier ... Tinderbox: The Tool For Notes .... Tinderbox shares ...

This option is, for now, only open to the few people who have MobileMe accounts. Maybe iCloud will add something like this. I'll pass it...

I'm surprised by the conclusion of my recent survey [3] of iPhone/OS X/Web task management solutions. There are still no great task man...

MobileMe Calendar now supports public read-only sharing using the webcal (.ics) format. There's no public display as an HTML page. Mo...

There are three features of the iPhone Calendar that prove Apple is not made of geniuses ... The maximum alert time is 2 days. Sidekick for...

Apple just can't manage to get this one right. I tested an old iOS Exchange Server calendaring bug with Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2007. ...

[Shortly after I first wrote this, C.Y. released ResophNotes 1.0.5. Among other things, such as the ability to store notes as indexable .txt...

What's the best way to manage multiple iPhones in a single family? There are at least two broad approaches, and combinations of them. We...

For geeks like you and I, the iPhone 4 is annoying. We’d have been much happier with an enhanced 3GS with more memory, more processing effic...