Location based task management

[bdavbdav]

Hi All, First post so be gentle!

Would it be possible to create some sort of location based task alert manager by Cell location? This struck me as useful for example when you might need to do something on the way home from work ("you forgot to pick up the dry cleaning again!"), where you may not know exactly what time you need to be reminded, but by rough location instead. Would something like this be useful to the xda-developers population? I am no coder myself, but cannot imagine this would be overly complex compared to some other apps to come out of XDA dev?

[hanmin]

Of all the newbie stuff.. this is probably the best newbie stuff I've heard. It is a good idea.. and it is certainly do-able (there are similar application what switch to different profile based on tower ID). Just need someone to pick up the project.

[bdavbdav]

:D Seems like all my best ideas are coined in the shower - see I got home today and had once again forgoten to buy shampoo on the way home :D

[KarhU]

Hi All, First post so be gentle!

Would it be possible to create some sort of location based task alert manager by Cell location? This struck me as useful for example when you might need to do something on the way home from work ("you forgot to pick up the dry cleaning again!"), where you may not know exactly what time you need to be reminded, but by rough location instead. Would something like this be useful to the xda-developers population? I am no coder myself, but cannot imagine this would be overly complex compared to some other apps to come out of XDA dev?

There is location based profile switch mort script floating around this forum. Try to contact the author. Your idea seems to be quite useful.

[shantzg001]

hmm, nice idea indeed, this is simple enough to be scriptable (for basic purposes, nothing much fancy)...mortscript is easy enough to do this (just check the value of a registry entry that has the tower string, and then read the msg off a database/text file and alert the user accordingly)..

[bdavbdav]

mm, nice idea indeed, this is simple enough to be scriptable (for basic purposes, nothing much fancy)...mortscript is easy enough to do this (just check the value of a registry entry that has the tower string, and then read the msg off a database/text file and alert the user accordingly)..

Would it be possible to have a script such as this one index a bunch of tasks (to pull a tower ID out of the note/location for example) from the default task list?

[shantzg001]

If by "default task list" you mean the WM/outlook tasks database then I'm not sure. I have never done that. Will look for it.