Yesterday we submitted 1.6 to Apple - and hopefully it will make your experience with Egretlist more enjoyable.  Since a great deal of the difficult code has been done, I think that we will be able to update more frequently.

While we wait, let me share a tip: how to quickly create a text to-do list - by talking to your iPhone.

Dragon Dictation (iTunes Link) is an iPhone app that transforms your spoken voice to text.  I recently uncovered a trick in it: if you say “new line”, it will insert a new line in your paragraph.  This turns out to be excellent for Egretlist! You can say:

“tomatoes” “new line” “olive oil” “new line” “mozzarella cheese” “new line” “mushrooms” “new line” “peppers” “new line” “sausage” “new line”

Here is what you can get in Dragon Dictation (it generally does a good job, unless you give it very complicated words):

You can copy it…

In Egretlist, press the New (+) button (or Append in a list title) to start creating to-do items, then press the Paste button:

Select “Paste each line as an Item”.  Then save the list with Save & Close…

New To-Do list, waiting to be done!

Of course, you can always select the “Add as separate Items” option  to create to-do items in individual Evernote notes that can be tagged, moved around notebooks, etc:

A word of caution: The Dragon Dictation’s EULA states that it sends your contact names to their servers for name recognition purposes.  If this bothers you, don’t follow this tip.

Also, since your voice needs to be sent to Dragon’s servers, this tip only works with a network connection.

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