Voo2do’s to-dos
Here’s the current table of todo tasks for voo2do itself. The number in [square braces] indicates how many people have emailed me asking for this feature.
Feel free to take a look and let me know if you’d like a certain feature pushed to a higher priority.
Speaking of priorities:
1 = working on this right away
2 = very likely to be in next update (~2 weeks)
3 through 9 = lower priority but desirable
10+ = not even sure if this feature belongs in voo2do
In related news, one of the new collaboration-focused features will be “published projects”, whereby I will be able to have a public-readable URL that serves a read-only list of tasks in my voo2do project. You don’t want to know what a pain it was to get the table below into postable form.
|
project |
task |
pri |
curr |
elapsed |
remain |
|
voo2do |
[1] project sharing, public and group |
1 |
8 |
0 |
8 |
|
voo2do |
[2] utf-8 support in email input |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
voo2do |
[2+] phone/email notification of overdue items |
2 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
voo2do |
[5+] recurring tasks |
2 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
|
voo2do |
[+] only update *changed* rows |
3 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
voo2do |
[+] projects page: new project button |
3 |
0.5 |
0 |
0.5 |
|
voo2do |
[+] acct: verify email changes |
3 |
0.3 |
0 |
0.3 |
|
voo2do |
[1] for taskemail, if task already exists, just add note! |
3 |
0.2 |
0 |
0.2 |
|
voo2do |
[1] backup/restore of notes too |
3 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
voo2do |
[4] user (e.g. d/m/y) date format |
3 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
|
voo2do |
[1] project sharing: microforums |
3 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
|
voo2do |
[1] events and timelines |
5 |
0 |
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|
voo2do |
fix calendar bugs on Safari |
5 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
|
voo2do |
[1] incomplete & overdue task counts in /projects |
5 |
0.4 |
0 |
0.4 |
|
voo2do |
[2+] calendar tab, appointments storage |
6 |
8 |
3 |
5 |
|
voo2do |
[1] allow specify pri: due: etc. in taskemail |
6 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
voo2do |
[1+] dash: each view offers customize/up/down/hide |
7 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
voo2do |
autodetect links in note text |
7 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
voo2do |
[1] simple print option (proj, task, pri, due) |
7 |
0.5 |
0 |
0.5 |
|
voo2do |
[+] cute, non-interrupting validation msgs |
8 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
|
voo2do |
[+] body font size controls on bottom of page (w/cookie) |
8 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
voo2do |
[1] remember sort prefs |
8 |
0.5 |
0 |
0.5 |
|
voo2do |
[2] open notes in div, not popup |
8 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
voo2do |
[1+] resizable (automatic?) column widths |
8 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
voo2do |
[1] edit notes |
8 |
0.5 |
0 |
0.5 |
|
voo2do |
[1] option to hide notes on completed tasks from dashboard |
8 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
voo2do |
[1] option to hide estimate columns |
9 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
voo2do |
[3+] colors/icons for projects |
9 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
voo2do |
[2+] export to CSV |
9 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
|
voo2do |
[1] make columns to display configurable per user? |
10 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
|
voo2do |
[1] warn if closing window with unsaved notes |
10 |
0.1 |
0 |
0.1 |
|
voo2do |
[2+] RSS feeds |
10 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
voo2do |
[3] input cues - e.g. "enter original estimate in hours" |
10 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
voo2do |
[1] rich text editor for note input |
12 |
5 |
0 |
5 |
|
voo2do |
[3] subtasks (a.k.a. hierarchical lists) |
12 |
8 |
0 |
8 |
|
voo2do |
visualization idea: pie charts |
13 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
voo2do |
[+] task age colorization: green —> brown |
13 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
voo2do |
[1] customizable color theme |
15 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
|
voo2do |
[1] DIY Planner format printing |
15 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
voo2do |
[1] route specific task to a context |
15 |
8 |
0 |
8 |
|
voo2do |
[1] add custom cols |
15 |
8 |
0 |
8 |
|
voo2do |
[1] translatable UI |
15 |
12 |
0 |
12 |
|
117.25 |
3 |
114.25 |
October 6th, 2005 at 4:41 am
autodetect links in note text, [2] open notes in div, not popup, [3] subtasks (a.k.a. hierarchical lists) - should be pri: 2-4, IMHO
and what about UNDO (I wrote U an email last week)?
October 6th, 2005 at 7:14 am
Fantastic work. I’d also like to see a European date format (d/m/y).
Also, the ability to print off a list of “all of my current tasks” on one pice of paper - no time estimates, due dates etc. Just projects and tasks. I’ve kind of got this working in Excel using the API but it would be great if this feature were built in.
Thanks again.
October 6th, 2005 at 10:08 am
thanks again
October 6th, 2005 at 10:10 am
“You can also route your task into a specific project by adding +projectName onto the end of your email” please add the feature to fold a task by markup on subject example:
[MyProject] something to do
October 6th, 2005 at 4:09 pm
I put in a strong vote for RSS Feeds. It would be very cool to be able to get at my lists from, say, the RSS reader on my Blackberry (I think most smartphones have readers available as well), or a Live Bookmark drop down on my Firefox toolbar.
October 10th, 2005 at 8:54 am
Thanks everyone for your votes, I have factored them in and moved around some of the priorities.
Denis: I am definitely planning to add an undo. This will come along with Ajax save (i.e. no more Save button). I had forgotten to add this into the list, but it will be there.
October 11th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
Excelent!! It is very rewarding as a user to find that the application is evolving. Thanks!!!
October 11th, 2005 at 9:56 pm
Thanks so much for all your wonderful work, Shimon. I’m a high school student obsessed with GTD tools, and this time tracking app is one that I’ve found truly invaluable. Perhaps a few interface refinements and additional features à la Basecamp/Backpack would really make voo2do shine - even more.
October 25th, 2005 at 7:48 pm
Shimon - great app - clearly better than any other web-based service I have found for list management. Having multiple views into tasks, prioritization, ubiquitous access etc. is great and blows the competition away! Thanks for taking the initiative.
One big suggestion - you may know about the huge GTD groundswell - your site would be perfect for GTD adherents IF ONLY you could add one more column/view to your list, which is “context” (@call, @errands, @online, etc.) - these suggest exactly when/where/how you will get your task done. It’s a key feature of the GTD philosophy and approach. Without this, many GTD adherents (there are millions of them, I imagine) will refuse to make the switch and thus will remain stuck on hugely inconvenient client-side apps (outliners, PDAs, etc.).
I haven’t a clue as to how hard this would be to program in, but it seems like a straightforward extension of what you are already doing (e.g. one more column and a view to sort all tasks by that column’s criteria).
If you are looking for the “breakthrough” feature that will garner a much wider audience for your service, I think this would be it. What do you think? Is this an impossible request?
Let me know if you can ,and keep up the good work!
PS - you should aim to sleep 7 hours a night, not more not less - see this link:
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/02_08_Kripke.html
October 26th, 2005 at 2:36 am
Shimon!
Do U see that people DEMAND of implementing GTD features in V2D?
thats what I talk to U several weeks ago
October 30th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
How about tags for tasks?
November 4th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
Yes, tags could be a very interesting feature. I also “vote” for custom color(s) and ability to edit notes.
November 7th, 2005 at 8:23 am
Here goes my vote for tags and custom colors…
And thanx again for great app!
December 5th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
I’m another vote for tags. And how about searchability? As for note editor: I’d vote for simple HTML support rather than (or in addition to) a rich-text editor.
December 11th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
Here’s another vote for “resizable (automatic?) column widths”
Thats the first problem i noticed when signing up.
December 12th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
Just wondering how you manage your priority list, given how busy you are and all the requests - is there some way we can we make a contribution to Voo2do in order to get our desired feature prioritized?
December 12th, 2005 at 5:41 pm
Michael,
Contributions of detailed feedback as well as monetary donations would certainly not hurt the chances for your favorite features, but I can’t make promises about what I’ll be able to implement. I’m hoping to have more voo2do development time available in the near future, but I have been overwhelmed for the past ~3 months, and I can’t guarantee that something of higher priority won’t delay my work on Voo2do.
So in short, if you ask kindly and your suggestions are insightful and would be appealing to lots of users, that is your best bet.
Thanks,
shimon.
December 13th, 2005 at 3:20 am
The “demand” for an extra “Context” column (for GTD) could also be implemented by allowing tasks to be moved from one view to another (and not forcing a project to be wholly contained within a view).
If this functionality was added, I’d switch. (Also sick of client-side solutions…)
Sub-tasks (and sub-sub-tasks, etc.) would also be mighty useful.
Thanks for the cool app.
December 13th, 2005 at 8:53 am
Tags (a good idea _anyway_) would be another way to make Voo2do more GTD-friendly. You could have tags for contexts and tags for projects.
This means you would have to have some way of grouping and/or filtering by tag (e.g., view all tasks with a particular tag or combination of tags, and group them or sort them by their *other tags*).
And if we’re heading down that road, then some way of indicating a tag hierarchy would be handy (kind of like del.icio.us’s tag bundles). Then you could have a tag for a project, and sub-tags for sub-projects.
December 19th, 2005 at 7:04 pm
RSS would be fantastic! Also, would not at all mind the GTD stuff either. In general, great program, loving it.
December 29th, 2005 at 5:16 am
Rss would be great. I need my homepage to have a google search box and my to do list. Which either means google box on voo2do somehow or voo2do rss feed on google custom.
-=K=-
December 29th, 2005 at 5:19 am
Also a place for permanent things such as contacts, birthdays, online links, and whatever. A tab where you can create just permanent tasks that you can simply call phone numbers, links, etc.
December 29th, 2005 at 1:13 pm
Kabe,
An RSS feed seems like the most likely option. The others call for a lot of new functionality that would be quite different from today’s Voo2do; I don’t think I could do that all as well as e.g. google can. I’m hoping to have RSS feeds ready in the next month or two.
January 6th, 2006 at 1:24 am
I’ve been searching high & low for an RSS To Do List to add to my Yahoo homepage; your to do list is my favorite, but I’m really hoping you can get that RSS feed ready. Your last post here looks like it has moved up a bit on your priorities . . . ?
February 9th, 2006 at 11:07 pm
minor suggestion: the column sort should stay put. If I sort by ‘project’, it only lasts until the next time I save, then it just gets jumbled up again back to whatever the default sorting column is.
I save every time the button goes red, so this gets pretty frustrating.
February 10th, 2006 at 2:07 am
Tim: that’s definitely coming, along with the ability to sort by multiple columns (e.g. sort by priority then due date).
February 13th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Hi,
first I want to thank you for your great work. I’m using Voo2do not for long, but I like it a lot.
The only thing I’m missing at the moment is to edit notes, which I’m using a lot. I recognized that you have it on your list, but it has only priority 8.
It is really annoying to delete a note and make a new one to get it changed. So you’ve written down that you only need half an hour for that, i hope that you perhaps add this feature before Christmas 2010 ;o)
February 13th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Thorsten,
Editing notes is definitely coming, and soon. I’ve already got it in my development version.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
** Default values for Priorities **
Shimon,
Here is a request that may be easy for you to implement.
Right now, the priority does not have any value.
Could it come pre-populated with some value (5 on a scale of 1-10, whatever) so that when I have tasks with higher or lower priorities, I simply change those values to make it appear in the order I like for that day.
Thanks for maintaining a great app!!
March 15th, 2006 at 10:57 am
RSS feeds please! I would love to push my tasks to multiple places (google homepage, feed readers, person homepage, etc.)
May 9th, 2006 at 10:02 am
First of all, thanks for the excellent site! It’s pretty much just what kind of thing I was looking for.
I’d like to put in a vote for remembering sorting and subtasks.
May 25th, 2006 at 2:35 am
Hopefully this is a simple one:
Can paragraphs be changed to line breaks in the notes?
ie instead of
This would make notes a lot more readable.
Thanks again for an awesome app.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:49 am
I agree with Jeff’s post on RSS feeds for the todo lists. Even better, though, would be to have the API implemented as a google homepage widget. That way I would have a quick way of glancing at voo2do, adding simple tasks, and being able to jump onto the full blown app. Just a thought but thanks for this awesome app and I hope you still read this thread, being so old already.
January 6th, 2007 at 11:57 am
I would vote for RSS feeds.
Can we have an update on the list please to see what is currently favourite and what you are currently working on.
Thanks for a great product.