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Posted Jun 02, 2014 in: Toodledo 2013 - The Year in Review
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Posted by gggarrett:
I do not agree that there is anything old-fashioned about the interface. It was changed a year or so ago and stills looks and works just fine. Actually, it was 3 years ago, July 2011. Whether it looks old-fashioned or not is a matter of taste. Some of us felt it looked old-fashioned when it was new. :-) |
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Posted May 28, 2014 in: how do you manage agenda items for upcoming conversations?
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I use the task's note field.
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The latter.
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Posted May 19, 2014 in: Moving tasks and subtasks to folders
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The easiest way to do that now, is to do a Permanent Link on the parent task, then multi-edit the folder to the new one.
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Posted May 13, 2014 in: Well, moving to something else.
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It seems to me this depends mostly on what your relative market position is. I know nothing of games, so can't speak to the "World of Slaughtering off most of the World's Population", but it's clear that M$ has a pure monopoly on Office apps, and can do whatever they please, including publishing all their plans for the forseeable future without concern. Not so for TD.
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Posted May 13, 2014 in: Are saved searches using tags suppoerted in Iphone App?
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I can't say in all cases of course, but I checked one of my saved searches that uses a tag, and it works in on my iPhone as well. YMMV.
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Posted Apr 28, 2014 in: Well, moving to something else.
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Posted by jeremiah.moss:
Well, moving to something else. IQTELL, Apple's own reminder app, and Evernote. Interesting. I've been playing with IQTELL on the side for a while now, trying to find the time to get it up and running enough to make the jump. And I agree with many of your reasons for doing so. There are several reasons for this: - Assigning items to locations didn't work as well as the iPhone's own app. You can only assign reminders when entering an area, not leaving it. Apple also seems to have a better "geofencing" algorithm. I'm likely to continue to use Apple's own app for location-specific reminders until something better comes along. I use TD's Location feature for an entirely different purpose, so the geofencing is not important to me. But since I can add any field I like in IQ, I can have Locations to use the same way I now use them in TD. - I want to seriously try Covey's Time Management Matrix (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, page 151). I'm hoping IQTELL will eventually be flexible enough to implement such a system inside it. Toodledo is very unlikely to ever do so. I played with this in TD at one time, but it was a bit kludgy (using the 4 priority levels to represent Covey's 4 quadrants) and didn't give me quite what I needed anyway. But my job responsibilities have changed considerably since then, so perhaps I should give it another try. - IQTELL has forms, workflows, and custom fields. They're pretty rudimentary so far, but show a lot of promise. This is something I liked in SharePoint, which I've used at some places I've worked at. Workflows can be an extremely powerful feature, allowing fields to be connected to each other (and in SharePoint, also allowing for automation). These are some of the features that appeal to me too, but they are also part of the reason it has taken me so long to get IQ fully functional. With even greater flexibility than TD, it has an even steeper learning curve. - Toodledo's development process is quite slow. I don't know if the code has become an un-maintainable mess or what, but slight changes every year or so isn't exactly the cadence I was hoping for in a product that still needs a lot of work. This is my main issue with TD. I don't know the general condition of the code, but I believe they have spread the team thin with the addition of several new features and a new platform in the past year or so. They added Outlines and Lists, both of which were minimal and not incorporated with the Tasks, and have spent a great deal of developer time bringing them together with the task management part and fleshing them out to be at least comparable to other similar software. This leaves very little time for enhancing the task management features. In the past year or so, there have been 2 enhancements to task management, de-star on completion (very little coding I would think), and save sort order with view (fair amount of coding, to move this feature down a level). I would have liked to have seen at least 5 features like this in a year. - Toodledo has adopted basically a "we don't say anything about stuff in development" philosophy. Granted, IQTELL isn't much better in this area, but it's still something I fundamentally disagree with, as a developer myself. I have no issue with their concerns about tipping off the competition; this seems like common sense to me. - IQTELL has integration with email and Evernote. This is really what put it over the top for me. I can set an email as an actionable item right then and there. No need to send a separate email with a strange syntax to a separate email address. Also nice features, if you can use them. I keep only personal information in EN, so connecting it to my work task manager has no value. Being able to incorporate Gmail is great, but I work for the state and my work Gmail account is locked down for security (HIPAA) reasons, though I don't send or receive any such emails. So I can't take advantage of this great feature. A couple of other things IQ has include the ability to create new "Objects", dependencies, unlimited subask levels, and a simple "macro" capability. The ability to create objects is very useful to me. For example, much of the work I do is for various groups I'm involved in. In TD, I've had to create Folders for each group alongside folders for the various levels of the organization that I do tasks for (I've already used Tags for other things), which is a bit kludgy. In IQ, I can just create a new object called "Groups", and create links from them to projects, tasks, subtasks, etc. Dependencies is a feature I've wanted it TD from the start, but very much doubt I'll see them any time soon in TD, if ever. The "macro" capability is very limited, so much so that I wouldn't have called it "macro". Nonetheless, it does give one the ability to have an Action triggered by certain other actions, something I used extensively in a task manager I had years ago. And I imagine they will add to it eventually, but it looks useful as is. So - sorry, I will not be renewing my subscription this year. You didn't mention the interface, which I find much more modern and pleasant than TD's. It's not that important to me, like it is to others, but it's a little icing on the cake. My silver subscription expires in Aug., but I don't know if I'll have IQ ready by then. Maybe your post will get me off my a** and getting it done! This message was edited Apr 28, 2014. |
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Posted Apr 21, 2014 in: Saving Search No Longer Possible
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Posted by AA:
Hi, It is currently impossible to save any new search. Tried this several times with various searches via the main website, but no luck. The pop-up window "There was an error message saving your search. Please try again later." appears every time. Please fix this ASAP. Thank you. Have you tried closing and reopening your browser? Rebooting? |
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Posted Apr 16, 2014 in: Add "Date added" to Task Views
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You can do that, just set the Sort criteria accordingly.
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Posted Apr 11, 2014 in: Update: Sort Individual Lists Uniquely
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After looking at my TD setup since posting above, I feel I've validated the statement I made in an impassioned plea to Jake last June regarding this feature:
Jake, I would like to suggest that it's more than just optimizing clicks. I, and many other TD power users virtually live in Saved Searches, and frequently switch between them during the day. Dozens of times. And each time, we either have to think about how to reset the sort order and the filters, or, choose one setting that works "most of the time", which is what I and many others, I suspect, do. This is more than just clicks, it's sub-optimal use of the tool because of this limitation. I would get a much clearer and more accurate representation of my task list if I had each Saved Search sorted and filtered all the time to fit the purpose of that search. So, to me at least, it is somewhat more than just optimizing clicks, it's about optimizing TD. Thanks for your understanding. As an example of how deep this change is, just last week I decided that I wasn't really using the Priority field anymore, that I could manage priorities in my head. I wasn't using it in any of my 30 Saved Searches, so I removed it from my list of used fields. Now I have to rethink that decision! (Great timing, Jake! ;) and may decide to reintroduce Priorities to manage the Sort orders in my Saved Searches. Now that I can optimize my sorts on a per view basis, the Priority field gives me another useful tool to manage that. I'm going to let these ideas percolate over the weekend before I make any rash decisions, but, at the very least, this "minor" change has forced me to consider a significant change, adding a field, to my TD strategy. Whatever I decide, this is a significant change in how many of us use and optimize TD. Again, thanks for adding this long-requested and very useful feature! I look forward to having Filters saved in this way as well. |
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Posted Apr 11, 2014 in: Update: Sort Individual Lists Uniquely
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Excellent! Thanks for doing this, it increases functionality greatly. Now I can see my many Saved Searches in particular in the relevant Sort order to make all of them clearer and easier to discern what I'm looking for.
This makes life with TD a bit better! This message was edited Apr 11, 2014. |
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Posted by Purveyor:
Yes, it is still not available. And this breaking news is just in: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. You sick b*****d, you! ;) |
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Posted Mar 28, 2014 in: How To View All Completed Tasks With Filters?
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This is one great application of Saved Searches. Just create a New Search, change the first row to
Completed|Yes and delete the second row (click on the X at the right end of the bar),and click Search. If you wish to keep this Search, click on Save Search in the upper right of the screen and give it a name, like Oscar. ;-) How long completed tasks are saved, which will determine how many you will see, is determined by what type of membership you have. |
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Since I don't use Context as it's intended, I use that for Requestor. Of course, you could use any modifiable field, including Tags, similarly.
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Too bad you can't comment on this without giving up all your personal information, but that's the way the web is going.
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Nice idea! I gather you enjoy herding cats. :)
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Posted Mar 10, 2014 in: Subtask not checked when parent task marked complete
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Thanks, Jake.
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Posted Mar 10, 2014 in: Having time-consuming future tasks be noticable
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I use the Start Date field and a custom Hotlist to accomplish this. Very few of my tasks are like this, so very few have a Start Date. My custom Hotlist filters for:
Due Date|Before|Tomorrow or Start Date|Before|Tomorrow along with other criteria. So if I have a task that takes 30 hours to do and I plan to spend 3 hrs a day working on it, I set the Start Date 10 working days before the Due Date. |
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Posted Mar 07, 2014 in: Subtask not checked when parent task marked complete
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I have 5 tasks I do first thing when I get to work. They have a parent task, which repeats every workday. The tasks themselves repeat With Parent.
Usually, I just do them, then check off the parent. I have the strikeout option turned on for completed tasks. When I check off the parent, all of them strikeout, and all but the last one gets checked off. It's not a big deal, but I can't figure out why out of five nearly identical tasks (identical but for the task name), one doesn't show the check mark. It does show as done, just struckout, but not checked. Is there anybody else who's seen this odd behavior? |
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Posted Mar 06, 2014 in: Select All / Mass Edit / Delete -- Any progress?
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Do a search for that folder, then do a multi-edit and select "Delete".
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