ActionComplete 6 for Android: The First Geo-social Task Organizer
June 15, 2010
ActionComplete 6 allows you to see on the map what people plan around you copy
their tasks to your personal to-do list.
The vicinity view presents a map positioned around your current location that shows all the places
where ActionComplete has or had a task planned by someone.
When you tap such a place you see a view of all the tasks planned at the place. The tasks are ordered by the number
of people who planned them - the "hottest" tasks are at the top of the list.
Tapping the plus sign adds the task to your Actions list. What's cool is the place where the task is planned is
automatically added to your Places list if it's not already there. Or updated with the coordinates
if it doesn't have them.
If you happen to have the task with the same name already in your Actions list, a dialog box will popup telling you
so. In this case you can tap the task row itself to open New Action form with Action Name and Places field pre-populated
with the name of the action and the place respectively.
Sometimes you want to plan something that nobody else is currently planning at a place. To do just that there is
Tap to plan something else here row.
If a location that had some ActionComplete activity currently does not have any tasks planned by anyone, you can be
the first to start it all over. Tap to plan something here row is there for that purpose.
The task names and place names and coordinates are shared anonymously - the only information
visible to other users is the number of people who planned a task at a particular place.
Sharing is mutual - to be able to see the vicinity map you have to share your
tasks linked to places. The sharing setting can be changed at any time in the preferences.
If you want to make a place "private", reset its coordinates with
Reset toolbar button on Place Details screen. Obviously you won't be able to leverage
location-based reminders for private places.
With all these features ActionComplete creates an entirely new category of productivity applications - geo-social
task managers.