Your day is busy, packed with all sorts of events and meetings. You need a task manager that’s going to keep you on track with your schedule, like Task Eater for iOS. Task Eater makes it really easy to add new tasks, providing you with a simple interface to create a title and add additional notes about your task. Use the notes field to add information like the event location, important phone numbers, or other information relevant to the event.
Task Eater has several features that separate it from the sea of task managers in the App Store, features like assigning task categories based on a chosen icon, local notifications, a great user interface, and much more. Let’s see how you can chomp away at your daily schedule with Task Eater.
Categorization with Icons
Task Eater's icons lets you visually separate tasks by Category
Task Eater makes it really easy to categorize your task with icons, letting you visually observe the category of each task. Tap the menu bar and select one of thirty available icons. Then select the medical icon for your daily “Take Medicine” task to be able to visually categorize it among others.
Task Eater even allows you to use your own icons. Just plug in your iPhone with Task Eater installed and open iTunes. Then select the Task Eater apps while dragging and dropping your PNG image files onto the Task Eater file sharing tab. Then open Task Eater on the iPhone and select the settings menu. Click import and those custom PNG image files will be available to use in the app.
Local Notifications
Task Eater allows you to easily schedule notifications, providing you with a reminder at a later time.
Task Eater allows you to easily schedule reminders of your tasks. For each alarm set, you’ll get a local notification on your iOS device. Never miss a meeting and always remember to take your pills by setting daily alarms. Task Eater also supports reoccurring alarms, allowing you to be reminded daily, weekly, monthly, or annually. To set an alarm for a task, just tap the alarm button and select the date. When the notification rings, just tap “Open”. From there, Task Eater will allow you to either cancel the alarm or snooze.
Unique UI
Task Eater's take on the Apple Standard UI
One of my favorite features of Task Eater is the user interface, which you’ll admittedly either love or hate right away. Each task is styled to look like a piece of yellow legal pad paper, a reminder of the “pen and paper“ method for task management. Almost all of Task Eater is custom designed and even the icons available in the app are beautiful on the iPhone 4’s Retina Display.
Attention to Detail
Task Eater includes a comprehensive list of settings, allowing the user to customize how the app works based on their personal preferences. Change the font, default icon for tasks, task color, and so much more. Customize whether the app icon displays pending tasks, missed alarms, or overdue tasks. You can even change the local notification’s alarm sound. Take a look at the Task Eater settings menu for all the possible customizations.
Task Eater also allows you to easily make a backup of your tasks. Tap “Create Backup” in the Task Eater settings to create one. Plug your iPhone into your computer and open iTunes. Then navigate to the sidebar and click your phone. Select the apps tab and click on Task Eater. Click the TaskEater.backup file and click “Save to…”. Then you can copy the file to a secure location. If you ever need to restore it, drag it back into the Documents window and click the “Restore from Backup” button in Task Eater.
Conclusion
In an overwhelming sea of nearly identical task managers, Task Eater strives to be both simple and beautiful. It’s custom user interface and slick animations make it look incredible while retaining the intuitiveness of standard Apple controls. Aside from that, Task Eater is similar to any of the other task managers available. It lets you set an alarm to remind you of upcoming events, makes it easy to enter a new task, and lets you categorize each task for easy finding.
My only issue with Task Eater is the lack of lists to organize all your tasks. Sometimes, I need to input a series of similar tasks. Perhaps you need to attend a meeting, then fix a huge server issue and then get a quote for new hardware. All these tasks are related and I would like to group them together. Other task managers allow me to create a separate list which can contain tasks. Instead of having to scroll though pages of other unrelated tasks, I can click the list and focus on what I need to accomplish.
I think Task Eater has potential to be an amazing platform, not just for the iPhone, I can see it easily expand into a Macintosh/Web application as well. If you’re looking for a beautiful task manager that also is incredibly easy to use, check out Task Eater.