Mobile Task Manager

Mobile Task Manager is a GTD tool for your mobile phone. You can store your actions, todo items, references, grocery lists, etc. in the application. Items can have notes for details and user can mark certain items as favorite. You can also create hierarchies with folder structures. You can easily purge completed items from memory (handy especially with grocery lists).

Application is written in Java so it runs on millions of phones that support MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.1.

Copyright notes: Icons from Mark James from famfamfam.com. Splash screen icon from Max Brown from orangeyear.com.

Here are the screenshots:

Splash List

Details Menu

Keyboard Shortcuts:

  • 0 = Toggle priority flag
  • 1 = Show item details
  • 3 = Edit item
  • 7 = Toggle favorite
  • 9 = Show item note
  • Left = Move item up
  • Right = Move item down

Download latest release from Google Code project site:

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  • ArijitB

    How can I flag the “To Do” Entry just shown in the 2nd screen shot ? Also How can I move one entry to the top/middle ?

    I’m using this nearly 8 months in my E63,came to know from the Symbian Guru site.

  • http://www.substanceofcode.com Tommi Laukkanen

    @ArijitB: I added the keyboard shortcuts on this page. Are those what you are looking for?

  • GTD_user

    Thanks for this great and good working app!

    It would be nice to have a menu option to see the shortcut keys (haven’t found it). Also it would be nice if you click on an item you can edit all the items properties at once. It’s however the best task manager which works on symbian I’ve found! Thank you :)

  • KLK

    thank you for a good and easy to use app.
    would it be too much trouble to re-configure the app for 360×640 screen.
    thanking you in advance

  • James

    This looks like a great app; however, when I try it on my Blackberry 9650, it installs and starts ok, but I can’t add or otherwise move around – it just stays stuck on the home screen. Could this be because the 9650 has a touchpad? And is there a keyboard shortcut that I can use to get started if that is the case? Thanks in advance.

  • http://www.substanceofcode.com Tommi Laukkanen

    @James: Yes, it could be because of Blackberry’s touchpad. On my Nokia E71 I could use also keypad for movement: 2=up, 4=left, 6=right and 8=down. Maybe that could work on the Blackberry too?

    • James

      Thanks for the reply; I have tried that, but it didn’t work…I was wondering if there might be other shortcut keys that aren’t listed here, like a key to add, or a key to access the menu.

  • Peter Brand

    Thank you for this very nice app. I use it on my SonyEricson k850i and it works perfectly. It really has done a lot for me in structuring my tasks. So, thanks again.

  • Petr Pejchal

    Hello,
    my GTD way I am using your product:
    1. Inbox input: start with space (useful for better sorting) eg. ” @e MILK and bread”
    2. Contexts/Name: @w Paul = at work, @h= at home, @e= at errands, …
    3. TODAY: using RED Flag
    4. TOMORROW: using YELLOW Flag
    5. CALENDAR: using GREEN Flag
    6. SOMEDAY/MAYBE: no Flag
    7. NEXT ACTION: using YELLOW STAR
    7. WAITING: using sign ¤ (like clock) after Context/Name
    I am using very strongly function SORT BY:
    NAME … sorting items by CONTEXT/NAME
    DONE … sorting DONE items to bottom of list
    PRIORITY … will sort items for TODAY, TOMORROW, CALENDAR, SOMEDAY/MAYBE

    Also using Export to file for Backups (I always rename default filename e:/gtd-backup.csv to
    e:/gtd-11-32.csv (11-32 is time of backup and date is given ba mobile phone automatically.

    I will be happy if author could make some improving:
    1. Search / Replace
    2. Sorting by CONTEXT
    3. Support for UTF-8 characters in backup files, because after import now some are damaged
    4. New special FLAGs with sorting suport in Menu/Sort (eg Sort by Extras)
    Thank you and Best Regards,
    Petr Pejchal / petr.pejchal@unet.cz

  • Petr Pejchal

    Hello,
    yet more suggestions to improving MTM:
    1. Jump/Roll list of items: Home/End, PageUp/Down.
    2. Signing for Folders: FLAGS(Red, Yellow, Green, …), and DONE, etc.
    3. Select/Copy/Move selected items to Folder

    Thank you and Best Regards,
    Petr Pejchal

  • Petr Pejchal

    Hello,
    yet “last” suggestion to improving MTM:
    1. Saving FLAGS/SIGNS for items/folders because Current Backup file does not save them.

    Thank you and Best Regards,
    Petr Pejchal

  • Martin Nikolaj

    This product looks quite promising.

    A few features I miss though is:
    1) The ability to move an item from one folder to another. I use the folder to define the context, as actions are being done they often move to a different context.
    2) Support of copy/paste feature CTRL+C/CTRL+V/CTRL+X, which at least in my phone Nokia E71 is supported.

  • http://twitter.com/almaximal MaximAL

    I uploaded a new version — 1.5.
    It has very desirable feature for cutting-pasting items (tasks and folders) between different folders.

    http://code.google.com/p/mobile-task-manager/downloads/detail?name=MobileTaskManager_v1.5.zip&can=2&q=#makechanges

  • Xyched

    it stuck to its splash n70. help.

  • Jindujun

    Hello

    This really looks great. Is it possible to use it on mobiles that only have a touch screen?

    Cheers
    Jindujun

  • jindujun

    Hi again

    I now installed it on a Nokia C7, installation went without problems, but as said below with the Blackberry, there is nothing happening. And as I don’t have a keyboard to use the shortcuts, I’m wondering if it will work at all. Thanks for the help.

    Cheers, Jindujun

    • Nonchalant

      I installed it on an Nokia N8. I had to turn on game and navigation keys in Application Manager > Installed Apps. Long press on the Task Manager icon to get to the options. Press “Suite Settings” and change the “On-screen keyboard” setting to “Game and navig. keys”.

      • jindujun

        Hey! Thanks for the help, I tried, and it works!

  • http://twitter.com/X3M Eduard Lucena

    I have a suggestion. You can make that a notification that pop-up on the screen when you go into a place, like home. Probably using GPS geo-localization you can make this improve

  • Tim

    Hello Man, I downloaded the app but it’s asking for serial number, do I need to buy that or what? I’m using nokia n95.
    Thanks

  • Makarand

    Hi, I tried installing on E7-00, after installing jar it opens but does nothing.

  • Notion

    Invaluable contribution to the J2ME platform.

    Thankyou wholeheartedly for your time and in making this application freeware. 
     
    COMMENT

    There are now a number of very inexpensive QWERTY based mobiles – typically with a limited feature set: Bluetooth, Camera, MP3 player and Java, microSD card access. The advantage of many such products is in their having a relatively long battery life – i.e.  in comparison to WinMo/ Android/ iphone/ Blackberry etc.

    (So I can now-  thanks to MTM - leave the old Palm next to the bed for a couple of months or more, before replacing new couple of AAA.  Charge the cheap Qwerty mobile about every 10 days.)

    SUGGESTION

    If  I/anyone comes across a partner / CSV friendly application, it could be posted here. I came across a couple of portable apps and will relay anything useful finds.

    Thank you again for this really usefull application

  • Bladerunner68

    Hi, wonderful app. I had tried to install it on my old nokia 6600 but somehow it didn’t start. Now at last I can use it on my nokia 5230, I like it very much, very useful GTD. Just one problem – 5230 has no keys at all, just touchscreen, and when I start the app a java control appears (four arrows, a middle confirm button, and four letters on the bottom), so while the app is perfectly usable, I cannot use the shortcuts you have listed. The one I miss in particular is the flag toggle, which is letter A on my java control, and only turns on or off a yellow star – no flags.
    Can you tell us who have only-touch phones how we can accbless all functionalities?
    Thank you very much :)
    bladerunner68

  • Tino

    Absolutly a fine  piece of productive software. Is there any chance that a sync with Google Tasks is build-in in the coming weeks?

  • Michael

    Nice work. If only the edit supported text copy/paste by specifying text start and end. Opera Mini has this feature, it is a full screen edit window activated by long-pressing at a text entry field in a web page, so this edit is available to your app too. Any chance of adding this copy/paste?

  • Charlie

    Hi Tommi, I’ve been using this app for a while and must say it’s pretty damn good :)

    I am having problems though with exporting a file. You see, it tells me “Root e:/ is not accesible”. I’m wondering if there’s any other way to export it to the memory card or something. I just want to have a back up of it since I would like to relay heavily on this app for productivity purposes :P.

    I used to have a lot of stored info there, one morning I opened it and got the terrible news that it was empty :o…that’s when finding a solution for this “export” thing became a relevant quest.

    I have sincerly tried more productivity java based apps but this is the only one that has worked for me…but the fact that I can’t make a back-up of it’s content makes it a less reliable choice to me.

    I really hope you get the chance to see this post. Thanks in advance.

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