A New View on Conduits

Submitted by learned on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 14:09

Conduit Community Support

I use Life Balance on Mac, Windows and iPhone. I'm looking forward to iPad. The one challenge I have on the road is the conduit. As opposed to the wifi sync you have today which works great at home. I'd like to suggest integrating the DropBox API to the iPhone and other mobile devices. This would allow a sync to the master anywhere, anytime and lead to much more flexibility I think.

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Good suggestion...

Submitted by cewhite on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 17:19.

We have not looked at the Dropbox API in detail, yet. It would probably involve changing the desktop editions to use the same file format as the iPhone. That may be a good idea for us to do anyway.

It is something that we will consider.

Thanks for your thoughtful suggestion.

Best wishes,

--Catherine--*

Please

Submitted by learned on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 06:48.

I also would love to request a dropbox interface. I live on the road and travel less and less with a laptop, using my iPhone and iPad instead. As it's not feasible to sync those two directly, DropBox would be the easiest path I can see to cloud based sync. If all are using dropbox, it opens a world of possibilities. LB already as great applescript support. If I had dropbox support as well, I could use Dictate on the iPhone's voice to text capabilities to enter a new task, email it home to my desktop, applescript it into LB and have it show up on my iPad while I was traveling. Now I truly do have a universal system.

more please ;)

Submitted by pahles on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 09:27.

I want to ask for Dropbox capabilities in LB too. Since I only use the iPhone app at the moment (an iPad app would be great BTW), there is no possibility to make a backup of the data. This is bad practice. If I lose my device, or it stops working, I lose all my data. Please add this as soon as possible!

You are backed up...

Submitted by cewhite on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 14:06.

First thing to understand is that your iPhone data are backed up each time you sync with iTunes. If anything goes wrong, you have to restore the whole iPhone.

You do not have the ease and flexibility that you would have to back up and restore JUST your Life Balance data, UNLESS you also have the desktop version installed. And having the desktop version too also makes other things easier.

However, we also agree Dropbox is nifty, and so is iPad.

Hope that clarifies the situation for you.