TaskWhere : Location Aware Task Management

I have been implementing idea of mine for a while yes its a mobile app for Android, for now. 

How did I come up with the idea ?

I was not happy with old traditional task management tools (or we can say todo list applications) like remember the milk, google tasks ( I am not saying these are not good products but they just dont fit to my style ). I keep looking at people who are using this kind of applications and they were like "Ok I have this task no matter where I am I have to do this" well short story I am not like that. Even if I am close to location where there is a task that I "must" do, sometimes I dont. (somebody should push me to do it :) ) Yes these task management tools have reminder but take this situation, think of that you have to get some kind of documents from student administration, you opened up your traditional task management tool, added it & setted up reminder. Everything great up to here for me but if its a weekend and your application reminded you this task guess what you probably not even close to school and you probably just cancel the task and if remind you again you pissed of to application (even this is not application fault) and probably remove it. This is not seem as a effective way to get tasks done at least for me, you have to have some kind of location info attached to task and application must remind you not on time basis but on location. Yes this is my application idea in general.

How did I developed this ?

I have been thinking about this for about a month, last week I can sit front of the computer and sketch some mock up (not professionally sketched ones just pen and paper) and when I looked at the general design it seems like application will be ready to use in one and half day when I looked at my abilities with location based apps. But guess what its not, absolutely not, cause appearantly my judge for project deadline is far from the real one. It took my 5 days actually finish application. By the way its open source you can check source code @github, add if you have ideas, create fork, I dont know do what ever you want. By the way application will be on Android market very soon for free if you have time you can grab and install it. I will notify on twitter when its on. Oh I forgot name of the application its TaskWhere.

How it works ?

Basically you opened up application, create new task ( I specifically made it simple cause I have all these detailed todo list applications ) by providing location name, task and its location on the map. You can drag&drop pin or search address on the map for task location. Oh wait I forgot something you can set proximity alert radius for that task. This can be default value but I am sure user will request to able to set it so I added it up. Now you have list of tasks with ability to do some quick actions like edit, mark as done, activate, deactivate just by clicking on item. Application also have service that runs on background even its interacting with user. When you enter the proximity area of the task TaskWhere will send notification and most importantly when you left the area, this is important cause you may discard first notification but I hope second one convince you to do it thats why I added.

Is there any similar application ?

Actually I dont know this cause I did not search in an extended way other than android market, there is one but its working with private beta request. There are some iphone applications actually but they are not free well most of them.

Future Ideas

• Synchronization ( thinking of adding Parse support which makes server side deployment, maintanence easy for mobile applications it funded by YC go look at it its great you can read, insert your object key-value based storage, but you have to request invite first )
• GoogleTask Integration ( they have opened up offical api for this with Oauth integration etc. so it will be good to get this done )
• May be some ui changes cause design of application fully belongs to me, I have to confest this here I can say if two color fits each other estetically (meaning I can taste good design :) ) but I do not have much ability about turning some sketch into actual design.