Blink - Quick Memo + Widget

I’ve used many task and time management apps over the years but keep returning to this one. If you need an app to record tasks, reminders and ideas with the least amount of effort, this is the one to get. The voice dictation feature is especially handy for recording entries on the go. If you’re looking for a full-featured time management app to turbocharge your productivity, this isn’t the one for you. But it does what it was designed to do exceptionally well, which should meet the needs of most people looking for a simple task management and journaling system on their smartphones. My only issues are that the reminder feature should offer more options and flexibility for setting alerts, and to make data entry as painless as possible, autocomplete should be available when typing entries.

This is such a great app. After trying every list/reminder app I could get my hands on, I found Blink. I was semi-sold after I tried it the first time. I loved the list layout, compact and clean. The ease of adding an item. What I didn’t realize was the quick press to turn an item red would remind me every hour. Call mom was red by default and it began popping up on my phone hourly. I keep a running list of everything I need to do and go through it each night to pick the top five or so items I need to get done the next day. I used to write those out. Now I just hi light them in red and I’m done. I am alerted hourly and when I go back to the list the red items jump off the page so I know what to work on. Just the perfect app for my workflow. It’s now on my front page.

It absolutely lives up to the spirit of keeping it simple, but there are a few things that could make it easier still. First, an extra color or two and an option on how they're applied would be nicer on the eye easier to navigate since the format is continuous text. Also, an option of putting new entries at the bottom rather than the top, especially since there's a gesture to move an entry to the top, and not vice versa. I paid for the Pages option which is handy, but moving the title so it shows at the top of the page or in the pull-down view would be ideal. This format is great for people who get bogged down by app features since there aren't many - it's mostly mostly gestures, takes a little getting used to, but this format is great.

Awesome speed, minimalist design, clever features. It just takes one tap to simultaneously switch the color and set a daily (or hourly) reminder for priority items. 2 feature suggestions: 1) Drag to rearrange manually (as of now the only option is to move an item to the top) and 2) Option for starting an item on a new line instead of wrapping the words between two lines (there is no way to tell if the first word on a given line is a new item or a continuation of the previous item other than context or tapping it - a visual indicator would be another way to fix this issue).

This app is quick and easy and nags me all day, which is my preferred method for reminders. However, in the spirit of keeping it simple there should be three choices for time between reminders: 1. Green color = weekly (reminds you from the time you make it green every week) 2. Yellow = daily (reminds you at the time you make it yellow every day) and 3. Red = hourly, as well as the standard to-do option with no reminder (black). This would keep it minimal but give some more options. There are many reminders that I don’t need to see every hour but do need to be reminded about. Also, I have not figured out what making the text blue does.