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dkdriscoll 02/28/2015 13:34

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Hi, doit.im is fantastic by the way and helps me manage my professional responsibilities well.

I have two suggestions for feature, and the first should be hard to implement and would be very useful

1)
One thing I do like to do, is to click on 'next' or 'today' in focus and bring a summary of outstanding items to meetings.

I would like to be able to filter what is shown. i.e a particular project, or even a particular goal. I know you can sort by project, deadline, context etc but I want to be able to filter out goals that aren't relevant to a particular meeting.

I use 'goal' for particular projects
'projects' to be tasks or deliverables in that project
I then put tasks in under each 'project' in order to manage it.

If I go to a meeting and print out 'next' in focus for example I don't want other project tasks to be shown that aren't related. Particularly as I manage some personal stuff on this too.

2) In that same view, i.e the focus view, it would be nice to be able to expand the tasks so subtasks are available so I have a full summary of where I am

Thanks

wendy_only post on 03/01/2015 14:49#1

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@dkdriscoll
Hi,

Thank you for your feedback!

1. Could you please tell us more details about how to make this feature? Something like the tag feature?

2. Do you mean that you want to see the subtasks in the task list view? It has been in our developing plan. You could see this feature on Mac and Windows clients.

Shall you need any help or have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact me back.

Thank you for your support!

Best regards,
Doit.im Team
dkdriscoll post on 03/02/2015 11:59#2

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Hello

Thanks for your reply. I've tried to make it cleaer with some screen shots. For item 2. I can clck to view subtasks in the windows client, but I can't expand ALL tasks so it's all shown in one window. That's what I'd like/

Regards,
Dniel

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Folke post on 03/02/2015 16:35#3

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+ 1

I would like to be able to expand the subtasks, indented under the task, just the way you illustrated in screenshot 2.
wendy_only post on 03/03/2015 03:42#4

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@dkdriscoll
Hi,

1. How do you think to group the task by Goal?

2. We have recored down your suggestion.We will take it into consideration.

Thank you for your support.

Best regards,
Doit.im Team
dkdriscoll post on 03/03/2015 14:05#5

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Wendy, your suggestion for #1 would be an even better way of addressing my requirements. As things stand I can't quite get what I need out of the program since in focus, I can't view ALL tasks (I have to choose between 'today' or 'next' etc). Folke has said that he would at least like to see tasks expandable to include indented subtask.

See attached screenshot.

Thank you

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Folke post on 03/03/2015 16:34#6

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After re-reading all your posts above I think I begon to agree completely with you (but I am not sure I have understood you correctly).

I think you are saying that you would like a "Goal view" which shows you not only a list of projects (and tasks that sit straight under the goal without a project) but which shows you ALL the tasks within the goal, and subtasks, too if you choose to expand some or all tasks. Did I understand this correctly?

In that case I totally agree :-)

I use the Goal feature mainly as "Areas" and concrete "Super-Projects" (Goals) (GTD 30k). I currently have 3 Areas + 2 Super-Projects, five such Goals all in all. A complete Goal view, showing me everything in that Goal, would be immensely valuable for reviewing my Areas and Goals. I think for me it would be best to have the tasks grouped by "box" in the Goal view.
wendy_only post on 03/04/2015 03:38#7

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@dkdriscoll
Hi,

We will take it into consideration to see tasks expandable to include indented subtask.

Does @Folk understand you correctly? Do you want a goal view which shows you ALL the tasks within the goal?

Best regards,
Doit.im Team
dkdriscoll post on 03/04/2015 08:08#8

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@Folkes - Exactly. It would be a great 'picture' of that status of all the deliverables ('projects, tasks, subtasks' under a particular 'goal' at any time. At the moment you can only 'zoom in' on a particular 'project' at a time. And even then you can only see tasks and not subtask of multiple tasks in one view.

Wendy - that is exactly what I want / need. This can help give the user a 'whole' picture of where they are in terms of delivering a particular goal without having to go into each project individually and writing it down which is what I do now.
wendy_only post on 03/05/2015 02:36#9

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@dkdriscoll
Hi,

Thank you for your feedback. We will consider your suggestion seriously.

Best regards,
Doit.im Team
dkdriscoll post on 03/09/2015 13:16#10

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Thanks Wendy, much appreciated.