Sweet. Thanks Bob and team. All we need now is subtasks and iPhone contacts integration and it's perfect. Maybe a map view too, like OmniFocus? Ooh and a tag cloud would be cool. I don't ask for much ;)

I like Smart Add on the regular RTM site, but on the iPhone I don't feel it's working. For example the # and ^ tokens are hidden too far away in the keyboard (123 -> #+=). And there's no suggestion as you type. Once you start typing in the smart add field, there's plenty of room beneath for suggestions or buttons to add tags, lists, priorities etc.

Also, is it possible to give the Tags screen an index on the right (like contacts for example)? This would speed up finding the right label.

Still, great work ;-)

Is it possible to add one virtual keyboard key to the Smart Add row which expands like the ".com" key to hold (only) all the special smart add tokens?

Can you (mis/re)use the spelling correction feature to give suggestions once a token is entered?

Woot! I can't wait to update and start using it. Thanks!!

Agreed, shortcuts to the smart add keys would be useful, i.e. beneath the smart add box, have shortcuts to these that can be tapped and then populate the input field with the relevant character

^ Due Date
! Priority
# Lists and Tags
@ Location
* Repeat
= Time Estimate

Love the smart ad, but it is putting my tasks in the inbox when another list is my default. How could I fix this? Is anyone else having this problem?

Smart Add on the iPhone is cute, and is more consistent with the web site. But, I agree w/ tonysteiner that entering properties on the iPhone requires more key taps than necessary, with some of the special characters requiring 2 taps just to get to them, and going back and forth between special characters and the alphabet. I don't know if the SDK offers the kind of custom keyboard that would mimic the autocomplete feature on the web site, because that would make Smart Add on the iPhone far more useful. As of now, I think the standard way of entering a task on the iPhone is actually faster and more reliable.

If I really want to use Smart Add on the iPhone, I guess I could speed up task adding by create a note that has a lot of my common property combinations. Then, copy and paste into the Smart Add box.

Smart Add would be quite useful in the iGoogle and Gmail gadgets.

I'd love to see a cheat sheet under the Smart Add bar, too.

Great to see Smart Add on my iPod touch. Thanks, Bob!

I'd like to second what manning999 is saying, it seems the Smart Add feature isn't quite as functional as it would originally seem to be.

The process of going through the keyboard menus to get to the '#' symbol or similar is unnecessarily delicate (and cumbersome - eg having to type in a whole tag). Tapping a nice and large text field then tapping the tag from a list is a lot more consistent and reliable when dealing with a relatively small screen as the iPhone's.

In a browser window on a lap/desktop, completely different story - Smart Add is great. Unfortunately, I don't think it is simply muscle memory holding me back this time around.

The only thing I could see the bar useful for is for times when I need to really quickly jot down a couple of things without thinking about it. Is there a way of turning off the Smart Add bar to get that little bit of the iPhone screen back?

Very excited about this addition! Thanks guys! I will echo the requests above, to somehow make it easier to add the shortcut symbols and also have the app suggest input like it does on the web version.

I have the same problem mooryan.

Help.

I completely agree with the comments above concerning the smart add. On the website the point of the smart add is to simplify adding tasks. Online this is a great success. On the iphone it doesn't really add any easy of access over the normal method of adding. Actually, come to think of it, the normal method of adding is easier since you don't necessarily have to type in the whole list/tag etc.

I'm also having the same problem as dhandall and mooryan - not a deal breaker b/c the smart add functionality is neat, but a little annoying. (I didn't notice that it went to my inbox the first time so I added the same task three times thinking it was a system malfunction...)

mooryan, dhandall, andrew.horton,
This is on our list to investigate. It seems to affect all areas of the app (e.g. adding from a search or Smart List too), not just Smart Add.

Although I agree that typing in all of the Smart Add syntax on the iPhone can be a headache, the one thing that I *do* like about this feature is that it makes it *very* easy to do quick task entry if you're simply following the "collect-now-process-later" philosophy of task management.

I generally jot down tasks on-the-go as soon as I think of them, and generally the whole process of deciding how to organize or catalog a task when my mind is on something else is a headache anyway. The new "Smart Add" entry field, even without the "smart" features, is a great step in the right direction for enabling quick task entry, even directly to the inbox.

In fact, I *like* the fact that the Inbox is where things land for that specific reason -- I just want to get my tasks entered and worry about processing them later. I realize that this is counterintuitive to how RTM has traditionally worked, and not what many of you would expect, but it would be nice to see an option for "plain" tasks entered in the Smart Add field to *always* go to the Inbox, regardless of what list you're presently looking at. If I want to add a task to a specific list, I can always do it using the old method.

jhollington, you're right, the Smart Add field now serves a Quick Add function. This is great, but it should be combined with the actual Smart Add philosophy and serve both without interference.

The RTM team might want to look at the Google Mobile app. It seems to support a similar suggestion bar above the keyboard when typing a search.

I like the new Smart Add but the loss of the predictive keyboard makes it almost not worth using. One of the strengths of the iPhone is the fact it has a soft keyboard so it is flexible but the only reason it works so well is because of the predictive functions to help keep you moving along.

Can we get this fixed soon? And also if the keyboard API's allow it why not have the predictive keyboard dictionary also include the 'tags' 'smartlists' 'locations', etc from inside RTM while you're in the Smart Add field. (If that isn't possible with the current SDK maybe you could reqeust it from apple for inclusion as an API in 4.0 for next year.)

Thanks for all the hard work on a great product.

I too love the Smart Add and would second the comments on getting to the # and the loss of predictive text.

However, I also am finding that if I click slightly above the keyboard by mistake the keyboard disappears but also the content of the Smart Add field also disappears. Maybe it is just me but I find myself doing this on a regular basis (fat fingers?). Would be great if the text remained in the box until you have hit Done even if you go away and come back again.