Anxiety is a lightweight leopard-only to-do application that syncs with iCal and Mail. To download or read more, visit www.anxietyapp.com/
This shot shows the preferences window, which gives you plenty of different options for how Anxiety behaves and what it displays. As can be seen, you can enable or disable a menu bar item, which toggles the application’s visibility like Twitterrific, and the dock item. The application can be added to the list of login items from within the preferences window. Another preference allows you to have Anxiety fade out whenever it isn’t the most frontmost app; by default it floats over all other windows.
The user can specify which application they would like to use to open to-dos externally. When a list item is double clicked, either iCal or Mail is launched to reveal the selected task. Additionally, hitting command-i will open the chosen application to show the task list in its entirety, including completed items.
The behavior of the list window can be customized as well; by default, it splits all of your tasks into multiple "lists", separated into groups based on which calendar they have been added to, and lists can be switched by clicking the title of the current list in the titlebar to show the alternative lists. In the screenshots above you can see this behavior is denoted to be active when a set of small arrows appear to the right of the title of the selected list in the titlebar. The alternative to this display method is to simply group all of your tasks together in the list window together, regardless of their calendar affiliation.
You can imagine that, with a heap of tasks in the list, the list is going to get pretty tall trying to accommodate them. By default, when you add a task, the window will resize to leave room for this new item, so that it is visible along with all its counterparts. However, after a certain number of items have been added, the window will reach its maximum size, and a scrollbar will appear allowing you to scroll through the list of tasks. While you’re free to resize the window yourself to make it smaller on demand using the resize handle, the "Maximum number of list rows" preference allows you to configure how many list items should be able to appear visibly before the window hits this maximum size and uses scrollbars.
The "Task and Calendar counts" in footer preference allows you to turn on some simple counts that appear at the bottom of the window. Meanwhile, a small configuration menu can be enabled that sits in the list window footer and enables access to various menu items.
As you can see from these screenshots, alternating list row backgrounds (where list items alternate white background and black backgrounds) are enabled by default, but you can turn them off for a straight-black background.
The second last is for animating the list window transitions. This isn’t as interesting as it sounds; all it means is, when enabled, windows fade out when closed, when inactive, or fade in when the application becomes active or the menubar item is clicked.
Posted by icespectre on 2007-11-29 07:33:53
Tagged: , anxiety , application , cocoa