First thoughts on the iPhone SDK

I’ve had about half a day to look at the iPhone SDK and start migrating our iMentat code over to it from the toolchain, and I already have a few observations to make about it.

This. Is. AWESOME.

Working with an actual SDK, and a debugger, with actual documentation, just about made me swoon.

It’s the toolchain - […]

OTA Outage! Desktop download now available

Mentat BlackBerry OTA download links stopped working yesterday and are we are diagnosing it now.
In the meantime, here are desktop download links as an option for anyone who wants to download the latest build now:
*OS 4.2 Desktop Download Link
http://brainmurmurs/products/mentat/v42desktop.zip
*OS 4.1 Desktop Download Link
http://brainmurmurs.com/products/mentat/v41desktop.zip
Just download from that link to your computer then unzip, and point your […]

Mentat Status Updates - Product Updates and Announcements

We’re back with site improvements, product announcements, Mentat for OS X pre-registration, a new product, and more!

New Mentat BlackBerry features and pricing

After listening to user feedback, we have added several new features to our Mentat BlackBerry application:

Automatically convert emails or SMS messages on your BlackBerry to Mentat tasks.
Fully editable task description, summary, date, priority, assignee […]

iPhone Update

We’re making good progress on our native Mentat application for the iPhone, currently known simply as ‘iMentat.’ As this point, we have native build that that can log, display a navigable list of projects, and download and display task summaries.
More to come soon, we are making rapid progress.

Mentat BlackBerry 1.3 Available!

Download the latest build here to upgrade (now is a great time to get started too if you haven’t tried it yet!).
New features added:
* Edit task descriptions and summaries from the BlackBerry. Just scroll to the text you want to edit, hit delete (or alt-delete to clear the whole field) and start typing. You can […]

Mentat BlackBerry Update: Email/SMS-to-Task improvements

In keeping with our GTD focus, the email to task feature was a big deal for our last Mentat BlackBerry (OS 4.2) release. Unfortunately, the trackwheel gave me nothing but grief when trying to set up the project selector part of that screen on the first go-round, so we compromised on ‘click for next options’ […]

Mentat BlackBerry Client 1.2 is Live!

We’ve just launched the latest build of the Mentat BlackBerry Client with some nice new features:
* Email to Task option:
As promised, provided you are using the Mentat BlackBerry Client OS 4.2 download, you can now convert emails to tasks. To try it out, first download the latest build then:
1. Log in to Mentat
2. Press […]

3,2,1

The Mentat BlackBerry Email to Task feature will be up in tomorrow’s new build release. GTD fans, prepare for some awesome.

Email to Task feature making progress

We’re in the midst of finishing the much requested Mentat BlackBerry Client feature to let users open their BlackBerry’s email manager and convert actionable emails to Mentat tasks at their whim. Keeping a clear inbox by filtering (the important) emails into actions has been a topic on several GTD sites and everyone seems to be […]

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