Quickie 1.4: import and export

There are few things I always had planned for Quickie and this ver­sion brings one of them: import and export, one way of shar­ing your lists.

When you install, you’ll notice few changes. The UI is stream­lined and more con­sis­tent. Top bar is now work­ing as iden­ti­cal as pos­si­ble, both on lists and on items view. This is lists view:

And this is items view:

The UI is also work­ing con­sis­tently and enables / dis­ables but­tons as needed. Thus now, when you’re in Edit mode, add-new-list or back-button are inac­ces­si­ble. This lessens the avail­able work­flow paths and allows you to focus on sin­gu­lar tasks.

Import / Export

That new but­ton next to Edit is where the main 1.4 fea­ture is. Tap it on lists view and you’ll see the options slide down:

Here you have the option to add lists in, from another device (more on this later). Tap at least one of the local lists and then the other two options become available:

Of course, you can still import lists, regard­less of what is locally selected, thus mid­dle option is not disabled.

On the items view, this is almost iden­ti­cal, with the dif­fer­ence that all 3 options are always avail­able, except when list is empty.

So, how this works?

Mail­ing

If you mail lists, it will open the mail con­troller inside the app, includ­ing all the lists you have selected. If you do this on items view, it will nat­u­rally add items from that list. This is how the mail con­tents looks:

- - - - [only to do items] - - - -

Coffee for the office

2 large mochas

1 large late

- - - - [only done items] - - - -

Coffee for the office

*1 small late

- - - - [all items] - - - -

Coffee for the office

2 large mochas

*1 small late

1 large late

The lay­out is pretty clear; list items are shown in 3 groups:

• only to-do items
• only done items
• all items

This cor­re­sponds to the three tabs you see on the items view in Quickie. The * in front of the item denotes a done item. In order to get this into Quickie, select what­ever group you want and copy/paste it into Quickie’s Add new list (+ but­ton on lists view) or Add more items (+ but­ton on the items view) screens.

If you mail out mul­ti­ple lists, their con­tents will sim­ply be added to the mail body, one by one.

Of course, you can also copy this in the mail con­troller screen before send­ing, then close that screen, switch to Mes­sages app and send the list over SMS. From then, copy/paste into Quickie on receiv­ing end.

Bump­ing

Bump™ is a ser­vice that exists for quite some time, but which recently got a big stamp of approval when Pay­Pal imple­mented it in their iPhone app.

How it works in Quickie:

1. Select some lists in Quickie that you want to trans­fer to another iPhone. Tap Bump lists out
2. Tap Bump lists in on the other iPhone
3. On both devices, the Bump con­nect screen will show up. Once you see this screen

   
   then sim­ply bump one device with another. You don’t have to bump the devices them­selves, it’s enough to bump hands hold­ing the iPhones (as the Bump logo shows).

4. You’ll be asked to con­firm the trans­fer on both devices and after that, the magic hap­pens. Data will be trans­fered, Bump screens will go away and you’ll see the lists on the tar­get phone.

You can bump any num­ber of lists you want. The com­mon way I use this fea­ture is when I get home from work and my wife bumps me the list of things I need to fetch from the store; pronto. :)