No particular reason. Mostly just time, I want to get a color picker like that in there someday.

Ah, got it. Looks great! Looking forward to the next version update.

The Reminders and Events panels both use EventKit which only added reminders support in iOS 6. Also the high adoption rate of iOS 6 makes it not worth while to support older versions.

I've spent many hours on other applications, mostly Mac, where the time spent making something backwards compatible was never really worth it. Example: I worked on getting fancy animations in an app that had to support Panther, which didn't even have NSAnimation support. However at this time Leopard had just came out and had all the new Core Animation hotness. Needless to say I would have saved countless hours if I didn't try back porting new features to older OSes no longer supported by Apple.

Thanks for the answer - I fully appreciate what you say. I'm just a bitter iPad1 owner whose £400 toy became obsolete barely a year after purchase. It's a shame there isn't a native equivalent of progressive enhancement.

I feel your pain, I too have an iPad 1 that I'd like to use more things on, like dashboards. :-P

I guess this is just what we get when we buy Apple products. They are damn good at making last year's awesome product look obsolete the next year.

To be fair the iPad shipped with iOS 3.2 and has seen upgrades through 4.x and 5.x. My iPad 1 from 2010 saw a good few years of use, rather than just barely a year.

I live in a city too and don't have a car. I plan on adding public transit support soon, because I really want it too.

Walking estimates too? Actually... I mean, I know how long it takes me to walk to work, but it'd be good to just be able to punch a number in. (Maybe automatically multiply by 1.1 or 1.2 when it's raining).

I guess there are a lot of things you could factor in for walking, but an average speed would probably get a close estimate in most cases.

I was very worried too, but we had no trouble getting approved.

Yeah we should fix that ...

Interesting idea. Are you thinking something along the lines of Mail.app's VIP feature where certain e-mails are propagated to the top or are you just talking about the content of mailing lists you subscribe to?

Similar to how the VIP feature works but in the consolidated view that you've created. I want to see everything in one place.

It's too easy to get distracted by other emails once I open Mail.app or, in my case, Mailbox.

Alright cool. I'll add it to the list of things to look into doing. :-)

If it were me, I'd offer an option to see just new e-mails into the VIP box, or all mailboxes.

I've thought about a Mac app version of it, just haven't had the time to mock it up and prototype it. I can you keep you posted on that front, but the next thing on the list is iPhone support.

I'd be interested in a Mac app as well. I just signed up for the iPhone mailing list :)

even better - possibly a Chrome app that comes up when you open a new page. Similar to the Currently Chrome app.

We plan to make it a universal app sometime in the near future. We just wanted to focus on making it great on the iPad first, where we thought the concept worked best.

Yes it is! Chris and I have been working on this for the past few months since that Dribbble post. http://dribbble.com/shots/780188-Morning

Awesome, great work. I was hoping this would become a reality.

Thanks! Happy to hear people like it.

The to-do part is pulling them in from iOS' built in Reminders app. That means you don't have to have yet another to-do app and it syncs via iCloud to your Mac and other devices.

The same goes for the events/calendar panel. They are both using Apple's EventKit API.

The news panel supports RSS feeds and Twitter is a possible option in the future, I'll look into doing it.

It would be great if the ycombinator RSS feed worked. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss