I've been looking for a combined task manager and calendar for a long time, and have often entertained building one for myself. Some feedback that is preventing adoption for me:
- Complex recurrence is key. I exercise 4 days per week. I only process my inbox (GTD-style) on weekdays. I triage bugs twice per week.
- Need to be able to view more than one day at a time on the calendar, and add tasks to specific days in that view — I plan out my weeks.
- Looking at future dates, it still shows my tasks scheduled for earlier dates. This makes planning difficult.
Ergonomic feedback
- Keyboard shortcuts (including arrow key navigation) does not work if you are focused on the name field of the task in the list. This means I can't really navigate, open, archive, reschdule tasks without using the mouse. Or at least I can't see how to. Might have to change hotkey scheme (use control or option?) as well, as command+A, for example, should probably still select all text in a field.
- I should be able to click out of the console — I keep trying to click or alt-tab out of it, like it’s spotlight, and it just hovers empty in front of my screen until I click to refocus on it and hit escape.
- When I've thought of building this myself, a key feature was adding tasks to the day's calendar (like, "I plan to work on X from 2-3:30pm").
Currently I use Asana for it's calendar view (note: this is not a calendar integration) and great keyboard shortcuts.
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- Complex recurrence is key. I exercise 4 days per week. I only process my inbox (GTD-style) on weekdays. I triage bugs twice per week.
- Need to be able to view more than one day at a time on the calendar, and add tasks to specific days in that view — I plan out my weeks.
- Looking at future dates, it still shows my tasks scheduled for earlier dates. This makes planning difficult.
Ergonomic feedback
- Keyboard shortcuts (including arrow key navigation) does not work if you are focused on the name field of the task in the list. This means I can't really navigate, open, archive, reschdule tasks without using the mouse. Or at least I can't see how to. Might have to change hotkey scheme (use control or option?) as well, as command+A, for example, should probably still select all text in a field.
- I should be able to click out of the console — I keep trying to click or alt-tab out of it, like it’s spotlight, and it just hovers empty in front of my screen until I click to refocus on it and hit escape.
- When I've thought of building this myself, a key feature was adding tasks to the day's calendar (like, "I plan to work on X from 2-3:30pm").
Currently I use Asana for it's calendar view (note: this is not a calendar integration) and great keyboard shortcuts.
Anyway, congrats on the launch!