Implement To Do Items Interfacing to most popular Task Managers like Omnifocus, Things, Todoist.
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TheUbster
In the current workflow the user need to copy and paste each single to do item to its own productivity tool. Having an option that would automatically transfer the tasks to the most popular Task Manager apps would increase dramatically the productivity. As the most popular task manager tools have clear interfacing guidelines the implementation effort to transfer simple text to do actions should be relatively light. Additionally Implementation could be gradual too, giving priority first to the most important and established tools for GTD implementation(i.e. Omnifocus in the Apple environment) and later and basing on user request to additional tools.
Julian Pscheid
Thanks, TheUbster! Integrations are definitely a common request. Due to the overwhelming number of possible one-off integrations for Hedy, we really focus on integrating with "middleware" tools such as n8n, Zapier, and Activepieces instead. If you have a free account with any of those, you should be able to have the to-dos from Hedy automatically be sent to your to-do item tracker of preference. For example, I use Zapier to have my to-do items sent to Todoist.
Over time we'll certainly look more closely at one-off integrations, but for now our focus is to integrate with one-to-many tools.
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TheUbster
Julian Pscheid Thank you for the useful and detailed feedback. I wasn't aware of these options like Zapier. I'm going to check them.
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TheUbster
Julian Pscheid Hi Julian, I tried to create in Zapier the Automation to export the to do items from Hedy as tasks to Omifocus, as recommended, and I successfully connected Zapier to Hedy creating a new API Key inside the Hedy application but when I try to test the trigger in Zapier to visualize the to do items created in Hedy nothing shows up. In Hedy I took one of the To-Dos and I see the option to export them to the Cloud, and I did i. I also enabled the option to export the to do items automatically. The problem/potential bug that I see is that when I enter in Hedy and I go to -> Setting -> API Access -> Manage Webhooks I get the message that the app requires a Pro licence which I actually have (see 1st and 2nd attached screenshots) so I'm stuck in the automation. Any idea on what could be the problem ? Thank you !
Julian Pscheid
TheUbster your setup in Zapier actually looks correct. Could you double check to ensure you have Cloud Sync enabled? That is required for the API to work.
It looks like we need to update the webhook screen... right now it shows that message even if you have Pro but don't have cloud sync enabled. See if you can access it correctly after enabling cloud sync.
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TheUbster
Julian Thank you for the quick feedback. This is also what I thought but is there a General Setting that allows to enable the iCloud even if in my specific case the Cloud in this case would be used to allow only the uploading of the To do Items ? As I decided to keep all my conversation locally on the phone and also got them processed locally only at the iPhone level does this preclude the use of the Cloud ? If it is like this, we should check then the consistency of the current implementation of the application on this Cloud topic because despite my current settings related to the local storage and processing of the Conversations the To do Items look actually sent to the Cloud (see attached screenshot where the task shows Re-export to the Cloud like if it was successfully uploaded to the Cloud. Not sure if maybe the problem is that the Cloud is not really enabled if the user decides like I did to keep all the conversation and processing local ?
Julian Pscheid
TheUbster it looks like you found another edge case with cloud sync disabled. The manual export of to-dos from the session screen is not functional when the cloud sync is disabled. So we need to disable that menu item, or add a warning message.
Any cloud export or API call currently relies on session data being available in cloud sync. I definitely see your point for your use case, though, so we will evaluate if syncing just the to-dos is an option.