new Garmin ComingUp App – new smart features for your Garmin

More: Get ComingUp at the CIQ Store

Garmin recently and quietly launched its new ToDo app – ComingUp. This brings the convenience of wrist-based todo management for those of you who use ToDoist, Google Tasks or Microsoft to Do. Well, it brings convenience to those who use Google Tasks because the other two just don’t work, at least not via the iOS version of Connect. More Garmin bugs and half-baked software…sorry.

How it works

You can easily create a Todo item on your Garmin watch or the app on your smartphone/computer. Garmin Connect synchronises the list; it’s the same principle when a toDo item is marked as complete.

New Garmin Keyboard – Instant Keyboard

The ComingUp app uses the newish Garmin keyboard on the Forerunner 965 and probably on your watch if you have a recent model. I think it’s relatively recently released and is a massive improvement on the old keyboard mechanism on the watch, which was dire/awful. It works quite well with a touchscreen and also pops up an alternative keyboard on your smartphone if you have the connect app open – handy if you want to type in something a little more complicated.

Key Features

• Seamless real-time updates if your Watch is linked to Connect by Bluetooth 
  
• Add, edit, and organize items directly from your wrist.
• Get notified with  timely reminders
• Easy interface
• Access as an app, meaning: it will appear in the same list as your sports profiles. (top right button)

Take Out

Garmin is slowly filling the gaps in its smart feature portfolio; ToDo management and a decent keyboard are just two examples of relatively straightforward gaps being addressed. Haptics, Gesture control and Voice control are all ‘works in progress’ and are more difficult to implement properly.