Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How do users obtain an invitation code?

A: You can apply for an invitation code via www.thinfferent.com for free.
Click the Discord button to join our Discord community, then you have to tell us about where you hear us, what you do, and why you chose ReNext. Then DM your answer to Discord manager to apply for 2-7 invitation codes according to your answer. We need to verify you are ReNext wanted.
Note: If you aren't good at learning new things from basic to difficult, or you don't care about one-hand user experience, or you just need a tool that one to-do for one goal. You miss the core concept of ReNext, and ReNext is just another normal app in your hand. It's worthless to change the behavioral inertia that you are used to only for ReNext. This will only lead to a bad user experience.

Q: When will there be no need for an invitation code to access ReNext?

A: ReNext will never open to non-ReNext Discord members until our users defend ReNext from evil blackening ReNext spontaneously.

Q: How to purchase ReNext?

A: The in-app purchases are located on the Purchase page of the app.
Here are the step-by-step instructions to locate the in-app purchases:
1. Launch the App: Open the app on your device.
2. Navigate to Settings: From the main screen, slide left from the right screen to enter the Settings page.
3. Locate Purchase Options: On the Settings page, you will find the following in-app purchase buttons:
* "Purchase App" button: it’s blue and located in the lower part, click the Purchase App to enter the purchase page for a one-time purchase or monthly subscription.
4. Locate Purchase Options: On the Purchase page, you will find the following in-app purchase buttons:
* "Monthly Subscription: $0.79 / month" button: it’s blue and located in the upper part, click it to access monthly subscription.
* "Lifetime for ReNext 1 (Tester): $7.00" button: it’s blue and located in the upper part, click it to access a one-time purchase.
We believe these steps will help you successfully test the in-app purchases. Please let us know if you require any further information.

Q: What’s the fastest way to master ReNext?

A: Just master the most important and basic tips below.
ReNext elaborately uses the color and space of natural elements as nature, no more need for visual aid for the frame or line, but the joy of exploring.
Blue is the most important color, follow is green, follow is gray, and yellow is a visual aid. Important interactions are cued in a prominent blue color.
1. Next Interact Zone: The zone under the 3-color-dot bar on the Home page.
- Click the Next Interact Zone to enter the Add & Edit page.
- Double tap the Next Interact Zone to enter the Completed to-do group page.
- Long press the Next Interact Zone to back to the bottom.
2. Long press and drag gesture:
- On the home page:
Long press and drag ↗️ or ↖️ to enter the search page;
- On the Add & Edit page:
Long press and drag ↗️ or ↖️ has changed to delete current to-do.
- On the Completed to-do group page and the Completed details page:
Long press and drag ↗️ or ↖️ has changed to go to the top of the page.
Long press and drag ↘️ or ↙️ to go to the bottom of the page.
3. Universal back gesture:
Slide down on text to exit the current page on the non-home and non-search pages.
Scroll up/down in the blank space on the left/right of the content on non-home and non-search pages.
4. Something else:
- Slide left from the right screen to enter the Settings page on the Home page.
- click the completed to-do on the Completed to-do group page to enter the Completed details page.
- Slide right to complete the blue middle to-do on the Home page.
- Click the ReNext logo to enter the page of tips for ReNext and long press the ReNext logo to show your invitation code on the Settings page.
- Long press the Purchase App on Settings page to access the subscription option.
- To-do Name, Due Date, and Due Time must be set on the Add & Edit page.

Q: Do you have a plan for a widget?

A: No widget forever. The widget is an ugly and inefficient industrial design element on the iPhone. I have explained in my book and published on Medium.

Q: Do you have a plan for dark mode?

A: No dark mode forever. I have explained in my book.
Humanity: Humans make tools to meet human instincts and needs, not to endure their defects, otherwise they are anti-human. For example, people are used to living in a colorful world in the sunlight, so please don't tell me how much power-efficiency the dark mode of the OLED screen is, not to mention how anti-human the experience of exploring the unknown world in the dark mode is. Moreover, when displaying pictures with a pure white background, the OLED screen is not more power-efficient than the LCD screen. The problem of power consumption in OLED screen daylight mode is that technology should cater to human nature for improvement, not an excuse for smartphone manufacturers to change users' natural lifestyle through misleading marketing. In this way, innovative solutions to solve problems disappear. The source of human nature comes from the instincts in human/biological genes: survival, reproduction, and passing-time. From this, more specific instinctive needs are derived, such as eating to ensure survival, sexual behavior to promote reproduction, and chatting and playing games to passing-time. Further to the next layer, eating, decomposition, digestion and transformation ensure a perfect energy supply system; foreplay, posture and battlefield promote high-quality sexual behavior; morality, etiquette, rules, etc. promote more efficient passing-time. In the process of human evolution, only by constantly breaking the needs of the previous layer can we achieve self-realization beyond the status quo and promote the huge progress of society. The closer to the instinctive needs, the more the foundation, and the further away from the instinctive needs, the more breakthroughs. One of the two is indispensable. For example, the screen of a smartphone is a basic requirement for information acquisition, while a high-quality screen is an advanced requirement for high-quality information presentation. All the needs derived from instinct correspond to the two opposing modes of satisfaction, superior and inferior. Each way can reach countless levels, and choosing the way to satisfy instincts and needs & the level of this way is human nature, and the key lies in personal choice. Top-level industrial design is to stand firmly on the side of the highest standards of the satisfying mode at the crossroads of almost every choice.

Q: Is there some behind-the-scenes story?

A: Yes. Such as, there is a much cooler method to add to-do, that's drag the three-dot-bar up. Yes, I know you're excited about it, me too. But there's an unfixable bug. After dragging the Home Indicator to return to the Home Screen of iOS, the gesture of dragging the three-dot-bar up also be activated, but it shouldn't. After seeking lots of methods to fix it, I failed. So I have to give up and change it to click the Next Interact Zone to add to-do.

Q: What can I do on the Home page?

A: The Home page has two zones.
Next Interact Zone:
1. The zone under the 3-color-dot bar on the Home page.
2. Click the Next Interact Zone to enter the Add & Edit page.
3. Double-tap the Next Interact Zone to enter the Completed to-do group page if there is at least one completed to-do group in your iCloud.
4. Long press the Next Interact Zone to back to the bottom.
To-do Group Zone:
1. The zone above the 3-color-dot bar on the Home page.
2. One page has at most eight to-do groups, to-do groups arranged from bottom to up according to the time of the first uncompleted to-do of the to-do group from early to late.
3. Each to-do group has a fixed space in the To-do Group Zone.
4. Each to-do group shows at most 3 to-dos in the To-do Group Zone. The first uncompleted to-do of the to-do group is arranged in the middle. The second uncompleted to-do of the to-do group is arranged at the top, and it will be empty if there are less than 2 (not including 2) uncompleted to-dos in the to-do group. The last completed to-do of the to-do group is arranged at the bottom, and it will be empty if there is no completed to-do in the to-do group.
5. Only the middle to-do in the To-do Group Zone can be interacted with. Slide right to complete the blue middle to-do on the home page. Click the middle to-do to enter the Add & Edit page to edit the middle to-do.
6. When there are 24 hours before the middle to-do to be started, it will enter countdown mode. And if you didn’t complete the to-do after the time is up, then the to-do will always show a lighter blue.
7. The middle to-do will show the date if it's not the day that the middle to-do will start. And the middle to-do will show the time if it's the day that the middle to-do will start.

Q: What can I do on the Add & Edit page?

A: From bottom to up:
1. Section Completed To-do: the completed to-dos of this to-do group will show here and are sorted by time; the earlier, the lower. If there are not any completed to-dos of this to-do group, then it will be empty here.
2. Section To-do Name: click To-do Name to input your to-do name. It must be set and it’s without doubt.
3. Section Tag: click to choose one of the common tags from Work, Life, and Home, or you can click Your Tag to input your personal tag. It's optional to be set.
4. Section Time: click Due Date to pick the date when your to-do will start. Click Due Time to pick the precise time when your to-do will start. It must be set, because the sorting of to-do and to-do groups depends on it.
5. Section Location: click Set location to input the location where your to-do will be completed. The upper map will show the location that you input in real-time. It's optional to be set.
6. Section Repeat: set a fixed time to repeat your to-do: H standing for hour, D standing for day, W standing for week, M standing for month. It's optional to be set.
7. Section Linked App/Person: click App to pick which kind of app will help you complete your to-do. Click Person to pick someone on your contact will help you complete your to-do. Because we can’t read the apps installed on your iPhone according to Apple's rules, we can’t let you pick an app installed on your iPhone. This is a compromise. If the person has an avatar, then it will show the avatar, otherwise it will show his/her first name. You can pick 2 apps and 2 people at most. It's optional to be set.
8. Section button: click the Next Todo to save current data to iCLoud, current to-do will show in Section Uncompleted To-do, and create a new empty to-do for this to-do group. Click the Save Group to save all to-dos in this to-do group to iCloud. If you don’t click button Save Group and slide down on text to exit the Add & Edit page, your current to-do will not be saved to iCloud, but the to-do you click the Next Todo before still saved to iCloud.
9. Section Uncompleted To-do: the uncompleted to-dos of this to-do group will show here and are sorted by time; the earlier, the lower. You can click the uncompleted to-do to re-edit it. If there aren’t any completed to-dos for this to-do group, then it will be empty here.
Interact on the Add & Edit page:
1. Long press and drag ↗️ or ↖️ to delete current to-do.
2. Slide down on content to go back to the Home page.
3. This is a complex and hidden feature. I don't suggest you try it. Sliding up and holding on to the content will help you have a glance at the content below, but you won’t really get there, you will get back after you release the hold. Note: it just works in the section where you can input or the text that no action after you click. It includes the Section Completed To-do, Section To-do Name, Your Tag of Section Tag, Section Location, and right part of Section Repeat after setting.
4. Scroll up/down in the blank space on the left/right of the content.

Q: What can I do on the Completed to-do group page?

A: Basic description:
1. One page has at most eight completed to-do groups; completed to-do groups are arranged from bottom to up according to the time of the last completed to-do of the completed to-do group, from late to early.
2. Each completed to-do group has a fixed space on the Completed to-do group page.
3. Each completed to-do group shows at most 3 to-dos on the Completed to-do group page. Completed to-dos are arranged from bottom to up according to the time of the completed to-do, from early to late. It will be empty if there is no more completed to-do in the completed to-do group.
4. Click any completed to-do of a completed to-do group to enter the Completed details page to show all completed to-dos and to-do data of this completed to-do group.
5. The earliest completed to-do of each completed to-do group will have an inner shadow effect and a yellow cycle in front to give you a tip that it's the start of this completed to-do group.
Interact on the Completed to-do group page:
1. Long press and drag ↗️ or ↖️ go to the top of the page;
2. Long press and drag ↘️ or ↙️ to go to the bottom of the page.
3. Slide down on content to go back to the Home page. But sliding up and holding on to the content will help you have a glance at the content below, but you won’t really get there, you will get back after you release the hold.
4. Scroll up/down in the blank space on the left/right of the content.

Q: What can I do on the Completed details page?

A: Basic description:
1. Completed to-dos are arranged from bottom to up according to the time of the completed to-do of the completed to-do group, from early to late.
2. Each completed to-do will display its data of To-do Name, Tag, Time, Location, Repeat, Linked App/Person. It will be empty if there is no data.
3. The to-do name will show in a blue bar to give you a tip that it's the start of a to-do.
Interact on the Completed to-do group page:
1. Long press and drag ↗️ or ↖️ go to the top of the page;
2. Long press and drag ↘️ or ↙️ to go to the bottom of the page.
3. Slide down on content to go back to the Home page. But sliding up and holding on to the content will help you have a glance at the content below, but you won’t really get there, you will get back after you release the hold.
4. Scroll up/down in the blank space on the left/right of the content.

Q: What can I do on the Settings page?

A: From bottom to up:
1. Section ReNext Logo: click the ReNext logo to enter the page of tips for ReNext. Long press the ReNext logo to show your invitation code.
2. Section ReNext value: just show the core values of ReNext.
3. Section Purchase: click the Purchase App to enter the purchase page for a one-time purchase or monthly subscription. Click Restore Purchase to restore your purchase via icloud.
4. Section Help: click Email Us for Support to contact us via our official email. It will default to open your Mail app and fill in our email.
5. Section Rate: click Rate Our App to jump to the ReNext page on the App Store.
6. Section Notifications: click Notifications to jump to the iOS default Settings to turn on/off notifications. When the notification is turned off, there is a yellow circle in front of the Notifications. If the notification is turned on, the yellow circle will disappear in front of the Notifications.
7. Section More: just show something that we think it’s needed.
Interact on the Settings page:
1. Slide down on text to go back to the Home page. But sliding up and holding on to the content will help you have a glance at the content below, but you won’t really get there, you will get back after you release the hold.
2. Scroll up/down in the blank space on the left/right of the content.

Q: I have an issue or question not listed here.

A: Feel free to email us at [email protected].