HoneyDo – Review
App Type: Uncategorized
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By: High Five Labs
Version #: 2.1
Date Released: 2010-10-25
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Price: 4.99
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We have all been there. Getting roommates to work together and accomplish a task. Who is going to wash the dishes, who has to clean the bathrooms. If you find yourself in this spot and you are all iPhone users then you are in luck because High Five Labs has a solution to team based to-do lists with their new app HoneyDo. HoneyDo is a sharable to-do that allows you to create groups and then assign tasks to members of the group. This offers a compelling way to organize with people that are on the go or may even be in remote locations.
The first order of business when using HoneyDo is to create an account and then either join or create a group. You can be a member of as many groups as you want, so you can have separate groups for your roommates, your office, your bowling league, etc. You can invite users who will then be prompted to input a code to join a group. From the group you can either assign a task to a member or leave the task unassigned. All members of the group can edit tasks so other users can take assignments. Every task can be commented on so if a member has a questions or comment they can add it to the task.
Subtasks can be added to create projects but the subtasks cannot be assigned to anyone other than the members assigned to the parent task. While this allows for some "Getting Things Done" style tasking, subtasks cannot be individually assigned which makes this app less suited to large project management and more for smaller group organization. The app will notify members with PUSH messages when new tasks are assigned. HoneyDo also has the option to add new tasks to the member’s calendar on the iPhone with notification alarms for due dates as well.
HoneyDo demonstrates one of the many strengths of the iPhone and its kind. HoneyDo seems to be well built for organizing tasks with roommates or among a small group working on a project. Depending on how your group does its organization it may not offer the fine tuned controls that a larger team may need to manage multiple projects with large number of subtasks. If you have a family or roommates that have iPhones, pick up HoneyDo and see if it helps simplify your house hold and getting things done. HoneyDo is $4.99 and available now on the app store.
Quick Take
Value:High
Would I Buy Again:Yes
Learning Curve:Easy
Who Is It For:Small groups that need to share tasks.
What I Like:Push notification, easy group creation.
What I Don't Like:Subtasks can't be assigned to separate people.
Final Statement:HoneyDo helps simplify your house hold and getting things done.
- Host or join multiple HoneyDo groups.
- Create tasks and assign them to one person or to anyone in a group.
- Tasks can be added easily to the device calendar and synced with iCalendar on your Mac
- Delete a task by swiping it in the Task List and hitting the delete button
- Give a virtual "gift" with a task.
- Create a list of subtasks within a task.
- Check off subtasks and tasks as "done."
- Reject tasks that others assign to you.
- Send free sms-like text replies to a task (pushed in real time = FREE SMS)
- All task lists are shared, so everyone in the group works off of the same list.
- toggle between an advanced or simple view of your tasks lists
- simple view: tasks organized by Overdue, Due Today, This Week and Done Tasks
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Article By Nathan Kline
Nathan has been an avid Apple user and advocate since the days of the Apple ][. He has always sought to find new ways to make use of technology to assist his daily life. As a paramedic in southern California Nathan brings his familiarity with technology to the field, and at whatsoniphone.com he brings his critical thinking to he analysis of apps and news. You has also written app reviews for the mobile app site Smokinapps.com.
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