GP2 preview: Tasks

Fred Oliveira on February 4, 2009, Comments (7)

I’d like to start off this post by thanking everyone who’s been sending feedback and ideas for Goplan 2 - you guys are awesome, and we loved your input on the last post about our navigation ideas. This post isn’t about the past, though, but the future. And Goplan 2′s Tasks in particular.

As with the rest of the app, we’ve completely reworked our Tasks implementation, and while the screen below might look like much has changed (apart from what we consider to be a much cleaner - and better - layout and design), things sure have improved. Here’s how:

The first thing we completely redid was the need to click through to tasks in order to create new subtasks. Just like you can quickly create tasks without leaving the task list screen, you’ll also be able to create new subtasks from the same screen, without any page refreshes. While that’s not necessarily visible in screenshots, we’ll be posting a series of videos highlighting the new functionality soon.

Also, tasks now benefit from our new filtering mechanism (a video on it is coming tomorrow), which makes it much easier to find the tasks that relate to you - either by being assigned to you directly, or just being in your particular area of expertise. That way, if you’re a design expert, you might click the “design” tag to filter everything out and focus on your work.

Coming (very) soon: a preview of our new calendar (you’ll like it, I’m sure!) and highlight videos of how the new features work. Keep your feedback coming, we love it. And get ready, we’re almost there!

Comments:

I believe it could be nice addition if we could add one task to many categories - I know it will create some problems, but at the same time it would be more flexible - just like gmail’s labels instead of directories.

Consider what Google’s team wrote about labels:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/02/gmail-adds-folders-by-improving-label.html

BTW, I love your often feature previews!

Comment by Kamil T. — February 5, 2009 @ 12:29 pm

I’ve got my money in my hand ready to buy a subscription from you guys. Keep up the great work and thanks for the regular updates. I can feel the love. As a Graphic Designer I found this to be the best fit for me and can’t wait to begin using it (and having my clients use it) I love the simplicity and ability to customize!

Comment by Adam Meyer — February 6, 2009 @ 6:37 pm

This is really turning into a wonderful app. I would love to see some time tracking tool integrated - a live timer would be too good to be true. I looking forward to moving over from Basecamp once this is released!

Comment by Brandon Vaughan — February 10, 2009 @ 10:57 am

[...] our series of previews of the upcoming Goplan 2 functionality (you can see earlier previews for Tasks, Tickets, the new navigation) - this time, we’ll talk briefly about the new implementation of [...]

Pingback by Goplan » GP2 preview: Calendar — February 13, 2009 @ 6:46 pm

+1 to simple time tracking in one of future revisions

Comment by Kamil T. — February 15, 2009 @ 6:49 pm

One thing I’ve often wished was available in the current goplan is the ability to reassign subtasks (i.e., change the parent task) - either because I made a mistake in creating the subtask, or just because we changed our minds about how we wanted to view the task lists.