Plancake Mobile - for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and other platforms
Background
With Plancake Mobile we decided to go for an innovative route (by using HTML5) rather than building a native application for each smartphone operating system.
This way we can make improvements quickly as we only need to maintain one codebase, as opposed to 4 or 5 of them.
What does that mean to you?
- you can use Plancake Mobile even without an Internet connection and have a nice shortcut on your home screen, as with most native apps.
- you don't need to install anything from the app store - just need to visit www.plancake.com with your smartphone
- when Plancake receives updates and bug fixes, your smartphone will be able to use them immediately, no manual updating required!
Also, we wanted to keep Plancake Mobile quite simple because we believe a small smartphone screen is not the best option for organising your things as you would need a bigger picture and an easy drag and drop functionality to do so. What you would probably need is to jot down things as they come up to your mind, see what you need to buy at the grocery shop or check things off your lists.
How to use Plancake Mobile
Just visit www.plancake.com with your smartphone and login. Plancake will detect you are on a small-screen device and redirect you to Plancake Mobile automatically. Easy!
The first time you log in, all the data in your account will be downloaded to your smartphone. After that, you can start using Plancake Mobile even without an Internet connection.
To mark a task as done, you just need to long press it.
Every time you make a change, the modification will not be transfered to the Plancake servers automatically. Tasks changed locally will show a yellow border.
Once you are ready to synchronise the data between your smartphone and the Plancake servers (and the other way around, too), click the 'Sync' button at the bottom of the screen (you need an Internet connection available to sync).
How to create a shortcut on your home screen
Once you are logged in, we suggest you create a shortcut on your Home Screen (sometimes referred to as 'Home'), so that you get an icon you just need to tap in order to launch Plancake Mobile.
On Android (if you use the default browser), you need to:
- open the browser "Bookmarks" screen
- long-press the Plancake bookmark, probably the last item in the list
- select "Add shortcut to Home"
On iPhone (if you use Safari), you need to:
- tap the plus button at the bottom of the Safari window
- tap "Add to Home Screen"
- tap the "Add" button at the top of the screen
On Blackberry, you need to:
- press the "Blackberry" key
- select "Add to Home Screen"
Problems?
Plancake Mobile works on any smartphone with a web browser supporting the basic functionalities of HTML5 - nowadays most smartphones should do.
If you have problems with the default browser (probably not), try and install Dolphin or Opera Mobile from your app store and login to Plancake with them.
If you experience unexpected problems, reloading the page (using the browser menu) or clearing the cache of your browser may solve the issue.
"...you'll have access to all of the great tools in Plancake." Lifehacker.com
"Plancake is great, works well, has plenty of shortcuts and makes managing your work and tasks even easier." Makeuseof.com
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