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How this task app is all you need to get Sorted

Mind Fund Studio’s patented swipe-and-select feature could be a breakthrough for scheduling apps

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Sorted allows you to move around multiple tasks at once. Photo: SCMP Pictures

A group of Hong Kong-based developers has released a to-do list app using a patented swipe-and-select gesture that it hopes will be a breakthrough for task management apps.

Sorted was created by five developers at Mind Fund Studio, which is backed by Hong Kong venture capital firm Mind Fund. The group of five developers work on several projects in the studio, and Sorted is its most polished app so far.

The innovative time-management app aims to make scheduling tasks easier by allowing users to reschedule multiple tasks at once rather than moving around items individually.

Leo Tumwattana, chief technology officer for the studio, originally started Sorted as a personal solution to the problem when he couldn’t find a task management app that allowed him to plan his own schedule simply and quickly.

“Many task management apps let you have a task list … but when you want to reorganise it, you have to go through each item and change it one at a time and that hinders you from planning quickly,” he said.

Sorted solves that problem by letting users select a range of tasks in a day with its patented swipe gesture. Users can select multiple tasks at once by swiping left on the first task and then scrolling down. Subsequently, a pinching motion allows users to reschedule the times for all the tasks easily on the timeline.

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