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In vcTasks (build 268), you can click the Color Theme button () in the widget toolbar to switch between themes. There are three different themes (White, Dark, and Transparent).

Calendar List View with White Theme

Calendar List View with Dark Theme

Calendar List View with Transparent Theme

Calendar Week View with White Theme

Tasks List View with White Theme

Task List View with White Theme

Move tasks between task lists

You can move a task from one task list to anther task list by editing the task, and change the task list property of the task.

Sometimes, you may want to move all the tasks from one task list to another task list, or you want to move all the tasks in local tasks folder to Google task list on the cloud. You can use the "Move Tasks to Task List" ()function.

Example 1

You can move all the tasks in "Projects" task list on one Google account to "Project Milestones" on another Google account (assume the task list "Project Milestones" is already exist).

Here are the steps.

1. In vcTasks home screen, select the task list "Projects". It will displays all the tasks under this task list.
2. Select "Move Tasks to Task List" from the drop down menu (on the top right corner)
3. Then, select the destination task list "Project Milestones" from the popup list.
4. It will show you how many tasks will be moved to the destination task list.
5. Click the "Yes" button to confirm.
6. The tasks will be moved to the "Project Milestones" task list on your device. The next time when you sync with Google, the tasks on Google cloud will be updated accordingly.

Example 2

I want to move all the tasks with category called "Office" from all task lists (including tasks list from different Google accounts) to a task list called "Office Tasks".

1. In vcTasks home screen, click the "Advanced Filter" button
2. In the "Advanced Filter", select "All Tasks" from the task list filter.
3. In the "In Categories", click the "Add" button ()to add a category called "Office" to the filter.
4. Click the "OK' button to form.
5. It will return to home screen, and show you all the tasks under the category called "Office".
6. Select "Move Tasks to Task List" from the drop down menu (on the top right corner)
7. Then, select the destination task list "Office Tasks" from the popup list.
8. It will show you how many tasks will be moved to the destination task list.
9. Click the "Yes" button to confirm.
10. The tasks will be moved to the "Office Tasks" task list on your device. The next time when you sync with Google, the tasks on Google cloud will be updated accordingly.

Backup vcTasks

When you have a new device or you want to sync tasks to other devices, you can install vcTasks on the new devices and sync with Google on cloud to get all the tasks directly.

If you want to preserve the vcTasks information such as icons, reminders, recurring pattern, categories, priorities ..etc. You need to move data from one device to another device using Backup/Restore feature.


Encryption:

• Backup files can be encrypted. By default, it's encrypted by a default password.
• You can set your own encryption password.
• You can also select to save the backup file in plan-text.

Backup location:

• The default backup location is the internal sdcard vctasks_backup. You can also change it to other folder (such as the folder in external sccard).
• When you specific your own backup location, the backup files will be stored under <your selected folder>/vctasks_backup
• Every time when backup starts, it will move all the exist backup files in vctasks_backup directory to a subfolder (with name by the timestamp, e.g: <your selected folder>/vctasks_backup/201310301130) before writing the new backup to vctasks_backup. 

Auto-backup:

• If Auto-backup is enabled, data will be backup automatically during the first time when you sync with Google on that day or around mid-night daily if there is any updates of the tasks since last backup. (If you have not backup for more than 7 days, it will force to backup anyway when Auto-backup is started.)
• By default Auto-backup is enabled.

Backup to Cloud:

• You can download the free app from Play Store called “Dropsync” or "Foldersync Lite", which allows you to sync data in vctasks_backup to Dropbox. Please be reminded that the Dropsync has a file size limitation (5M). The Foldersync Lite doesn't have this limitation, and can sync to two cloud accounts. For details, please refer to the description in Play Store.

Restore:

• When you restore data, you can select to restore data from last backup location.
• You can also select to restore data from other folder such as the old backup (e.g.: <your selected folder>/vctasks_backup/201310301130)

How do I make a task recur?

I need to pay the car loan every first Monday of the month, starting at Nov 2013, and there are 10 payment schedules.

Here are the steps to create a recurring (repeating) task.

1. Click the "Add" () button to enter the Create Task screen.
2. In the Create Task screen, enter the subject. You can also select the icon if you want.
3. Select the start date, for this case, any date before the first Nov 2013.
4. Scroll to the "Recurrence" section and tap the space below the "Recurrence" line to open the Recurrence Pattern Edit screen.
5. In the Recurrence Pattern Edit screen, select “Monthly” in the Recurrence Pattern, and then select "first', "Monday".
6. Then, tap the "Save" button on the top right corner. It will go back to the Create Task screen.
7. Done.
8. In the task list view, click the checkbox on the left to complete the task. Once the current task is marked as completed, the next recurring tasks will be created automatically (For this case, it's due on 2 Dec).
9. No matter you complete the task from vcTasks or complete the task from Google. After sync vcTasks with Google,  you should see the same tasks number of tasks in vcTasks and Google. They should be in sync.
   

More Information

Here are some of the recurring task that you can create:

• Occurs every 2 day(s) effective 27 Dec 2011 until 27 Dec 2012
• Occurs every Tuesday, Friday effective 27 Dec 2011 until 27 Dec 2012
• Occurs day 27 of every 2 month(s) effective 27 Dec 2011 until 27 Dec 2012
• Occurs the third Tuesday of every 3 month(s) effective 27 Dec 2011 until 27 Dec 2012
• Occurs every 2year(s) on January 17 effective 27 Dec 2011 until 27 Dec 2012
• Occurs the second Tuesday of January effective 27 Dec 2011
• Regenerate new task x day(s) after task is completed
• Regenerate new task  x week(s) after task is completed
• Regenerate new task  x month(s) after task is completed
• Regenerate new task  x year(s) after task is completed

Enter title and select an icon

Scroll to the Recurrence section

Select Monthly, and select "first" "Monday". In the End section, enter 10 (default is 10) in the "After Occurrences".

Click the Save button and go back to the Create Task screen. You should see the recurring pattern description.

Click the "Save" button to save the task. You should see a new task with the recurring task icon on the left.

Click the checkbox on the left to complete the task. Once the current task is marked as completed. The next recurring tasks will be created (For this case, it's due on 2 Dec).

In the Calendar view,  you should see the tasks. The grey task icon indicates that the task has been marked as completed. 

Create Advanced Tasks

Click the "Add" button () in the main screen to enter the Advanced Task creation screen.

You can create tasks with the following properties:

• Title
• Icon
• Task List
• Categories (you can assign multiple categories to the task)
• Status - "Not Started", "In Progress", "Completed", "Waiting", "Deferred".
• Start Date
• Due Date
• Date Completed
• Reminder Date, Time
• Priority - High, Normal, Low
• Recurrence Pattern (e.g, repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly)
• Note

Since Google doesn't have some of these properties. Only the following information will be synced with Google.

• Title
• Task List
• Status  - "Not Started", "Completed"
• Due Date
• Note

Here are some of the features of the these properties:

• You can group tasks by categories, priorities or status (across multiple task lists and Google accounts).
• Order tasks by start date, due date, or title.
• Tasks can be displayed in built-in Calendar by due date or date completed.
• When you specify icon of the task, the icon will be displayed in task list and calendar. You will also see the icon in vcTasks alert if you have set reminder of the task.

Create Quick Tasks

1. Click the "Add Multiple Tasks" button ()  to show the Quick Add panel.
2. Select a Google task list, from the task option list.  If you don't want to sync the task to Google, please select "Local Tasks" from the option list.
3. If you want to specify the due date of the tasks, click the "Calendar" button and select the due date.
4. Enter the task subject, and press the "Go" button on the keypad or click the "Tick" image button ( ) to create a new task.
5. If you want to add another tasks on the same task list and with the same due date, you can just enter the title and click the "Go" button again.
6. If you want to sync the new tasks to Google immediately, you can click the "Sync" button (). Otherwise, the new tasks will be synced to Google automatically (about 5 minutes after you have turned off the screen).

Widgets

vcTasks supports scroll-able widgets (Android 3.0+). There are two major widgets, Tasks Widget and Calendar Widget. For Android 3.0+, in Calendar Widget, you can switch between Diary View, Month View and Week View.

Calendar Widget - Diary View

Tasks Widget, and shortcuts.

Calendar Widget - Week View

Calendar Widget - Month View

Calendar View

You can view tasks in our built-in calendar. With different views.

Calendar Simple View

Calendar Icon View

Calendar Full View

Calendar Week View

Calendar Diary View

Task Listview

Tasks can be sorted by due date, start date, title or priority. You can also group tasks by priority or categories.

Listview with small font, and multiple tasks input box.

Listview with large font

Group by categories

Group by priority

Welcome to vcTasks Blog.

vcTasks is an Android app which allows user to manage the Google tasks locally on their device. You can create tasks that sync to Google. You can also create some local tasks the keep locally on your device.

You can also encrypted the tasks notes that stored in vcTasks. Password lock and and Pattern lock are supported.

You can also create repeating tasks such as daily, monthly, yearly tasks.


vcTasks is absolutely FREE, and it's supported by ads.  However, we will grant you an ads-free period of 10 days. You can purchase the Premium key from Play Store to upgrade to Premium version. After purchasing the Premium, you will not be bothered by ads.

Download the app from Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vecal.vctasks