My latest iPhone app, Listable, is now available on the App Store. I started working on Listable a couple of months ago after I looked all over the App store for a shared ToDo list application that was elegant and simple. When I didn’t find anything that met my standards, I started writing my own.
My wife, Lori, and I have been using Listable, both on our iPhone devices and on the Web for the last month, and we have lists of groceries, tasks, movies that we want to watch, and wines that we like. It has been helpful for both Lori and I professionally, as I found out that Lori had been keeping a list of things that needed to be done on her dissertation, and I used it to keep track of bugs that needed to be fixed in Listable.
In our personal lives, it has been helpful as well, as Lori and I are keeping a list of possible baby names for our first, a girl, due on December 30th. Names we like more get re-arranged to the top, and we mark as “completed” names that we’ve considered and discarded. Maybe we’ll even share that list with our daughter when she’s old enough to appreciate the collaborative process that went into giving her a name!
We use the Listable web site, listableapp.com, to manage lists when we’re on our computers, and the iPhone app when we’re not at home. The iPhone app includes push notifications so that you know immediately when a collaborator makes a change to one of your lists.
Listable for the iPhone is a free download in the App Store.
Have you tried Listable? Let me know what you think in the comments!
My wife and I both use listable. Mostly for shopping and chores around the house. Is there anyway of organizing the lists alphabetically?? I keep spending more time finding the item I want to relist than I would of I typed it all over again, but then I would end up with a double item,
Cheers
pedro
Finally got around to implementing this on the web site. In the future, I’d like to do this on the iPhone app as well. I’ll make sure to post to our twitter account when that happens.
I just downloaded the app, and I love the simplicity and accountability. However, it doesn’t seem to work in real-time which is where most of the value comes into play. When I, or someone I am sharing with, adds or completes an item it is not marked off or added on my iPhone, and I don’t get a notification (even though the notifications are turned on in the settings). If I jump to the activity feed and back to the lists then the list updates, but this is very manual and makes it like other shared list apps where you have to manually sync.
Is there something wrong with the system or am I missing something? It would be great to know within a matter of seconds when a task has been added or completed.
Thank you for your time and assistance. Again, it looks like a great app, especially once I can figure out the automatic pushing.
- Anthony
Hi Anthony – sorry about the delayed response. Listable push notifications had been broken for a while, and I just fixed them on the server a moment ago. The secure certificate installed on our server had expired, and I just had to renew it to make push notifications work again. Hope you enjoy using Listable, now that it’s (finally) fully functional again!