[dduff617]

ok - just figured something out: audio attachments created on the iphone appear in the notes field on the desktop as an attached file.

i was not seeing them previously because when i click the little note icon on the task, it would expand to seemingly show the notes field for the selected item, however the icon representing the attached audio file was not visible.

it appears that clicking on the note icon for a task in list view only exposes the first line of the notes field, which i guess makes sense for text notes, but is a bit confusing/misleading when the only contents of the notes field is an audio file attachment because the notes field appears empty, even though it is not. the only way you can actually see and play the audio file is to click inside the notes field to fully expand it.

i suggest that it might be a good idea to change the current behavior so that it is not so confusing. this could be done by eliminating the seemingly gratuitous newline that seems to get added to the notes field when an audio recording is attached and possibly by using a more compact icon for the audio attachment that can be seen in the first line "preview" of the notes field in list view. if this were done, then when the user exposes the summary of the notes field in list view, they could see the icons for attached audio files (and presumably the same goes for photos).

alternatively, the desktop version could separate out attachments from the notes field, as is done on the iphone app.