[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Tiemen_S:
So I recently got very interested in Windows Phone 7 (mango) and I had been thinking about starting to create my own apps for a while. The result is the idea for an app that is as follows:

Name: Crumbs

Possible abbreviation: to send somebody a "crumb"

In short: An app that capable of: writing/creating, organising, sharing and following instructions, AKA crumbs.

What I want to achieve with this is a new option into social networking, but this time it's also very useful and not just fun to show off. What could these crumbs be? Well, I've thought of some categories already:

Routinely task:

like the stuff you do every morning, shouldn't forget, etc.

Work/study task:

some sort of study schedule, with certain points you should handle to complete the whole task.

Preparation/cooking task:

doesn't need any explanation.

Scavenger hunt/adventure:

wouldn't it be great if you can give a list of instructions to someone with some reward at the end?

Travelling:

similar to your adventure, but could contain various flight data or a couple of options (so you don't "finish" an item, but finish 1 item in a dillema.

Other: always have some other category..

User defined: if a user wants to make his/her own category.
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So these are the categories, but as you've already seen, each category has different types of commands/operations one has to perform to complete the whole task. So when writing a new one, you could filter the entry-options by the ones most important for that category and give the users a seperate option to add another operation than the ones listed by default. Some possible operations and their integration ideas are as stated below:

Action: very straightforward, do something and when executing the crumb you simply check the box when done. Maybe some option with a timer that alerts you that you should be done with the operation soon (for example: cooking).

Navigate: go to a specific location and then you check the operation. Possible GPS integration/maps?

Input: give certain input to go on. For example useful when creating an adventure (go there, look for the church and read what's on it) or something else that should need a password or any other input.

Alert: to alert yourself/the executor OR (and this is important) some other user that you've arrived at a certain operation in your crumb.​

Yeah, you read it right, another user. Because one other important aspect of almost every app nowadays is SHARING. So ofcourse, there will have to be the option to share crumbs. People will be able to manage their crumbs on a phone ofcourse, but if there's a lot, wouldn't it be easy to have them stored online too? A place where you can rapidly type, organise and share your crumbs. So there should be a format to save them in (.crumb looks fantastic :p). So, you simply send someone the crumb using a public link you create for your privately stored crumb. But what about something called instructors/friends? Wouldn't it be awesome if you can allow certain people to GIVE you crumbs straightaway, so you'll get alerted and know you have to do something (OK, "your mom" wouldn't be awesome, but useful nonetheless). To make things easier for this, the users will have to be able to manage these friends/instructors too and have their own cookie jar/cake box to receive their crumbs directly in (on the website and in the app). I sense some Facebook/social integration, don't you?

Then there's this weird habit of people: they've got calendars and tasks on them. Wouldn't it be great if the crumbs are linked to calendar and/or outlook-task items?

Sooo... This is my (already quite complex) idea. To conclude things once again: the outlook task system isn't capable of managing real tasks. You can give certain progress percentages, but that's just something that could be managed by this app, since it's much more in depth.

Problem is, I'm not that good at developing (yet)! So if any developer out there is willing to take this thing on with me (I just feel this could turn out great), please let me know. Meanwhile, I'll keep dreaming on and I'm a quick learner, so I hope to show a mockup of some sorts soon :D. I've already thought out some sort of menu structure/frame everything should be hung up in and that's what I'll be working on the time to come.

And keep in mind:

This idea is NOT for sharing by anyone but me right now. That it may be very clear that this idea is not for your own use!