> > And as a native English speaker, "postpone" or "reschedule" sound much
> > better. push-back is very informal and open to misunderstanding.
When
> > people "push back" they are offering resistance.
>
> OK, I will keep this in mind.
>
> Thanks, Frank
>
Hi Carl, Frank:

The Palm was a strong force in popularizing the use of the to-do list.
It had this same issue: At the end of the day you had a bunch of tasks
dated today. You needed to change the deadline, and going one by one
would take forever.

The most popular solution was an add-on called "Rollover". The
simplest version took all pending tasks dated today and changed the
deadline for tomorrow. The first refinement was to ask for the number
of days, to jump from Friday to Monday on business tasks.

I like the name rollover because it takes away all connotation of "I
did not make it today" or "I am procrastinating", which is most
typically not the case.

I suggest that the implementation in task Coach should ask how many
days, offer 1 as default, and apply only to currently visible tasks.
This would allow me, for example, to roll over work tasks from Friday
to Monday, and private tasks from Friday to Saturday.

Best Regards. Armando.

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Hi everybody
Thanks a lot for this great software, I'm finally getting a bit more
organized,... hopefully.

I also would like to have a calendar around. I have been using the
google calendar and the ical from mac, and they are quite easy to use.
I was sondering if it would be possible to arrange windows vertical
(as in Excel) so that you could have on the same screen the task tree
and a calendar. You could then select a task and see what is the
schedule for it. If the calendar would be linked, then you could just
quite easily rearrange the "slot" for this task. you could also
imagine having a possibility to see/no see the subtask included in the
task you are looking at. It would be good to have a day, week, month,
year viewon the calendar.

Also, I have been using task coach task tree to create the projects I
am working on. That allow to have a general name for the project, and
then different folders corresponding to the steps or parts I have to
"assemble" to complete the project, and last the practical tasks.
As an example:
"invite friends to dinner" would be the project
"make a cake" would be a step or part of it
"buy eggs, ...","prepare the cake" would be the practical tasks
I was wondering if you think it would be good to have the possibility
to discriminate tasks this way, a bit like categories, but that would
allow you to see the exact task. Going back to the example, I would be
able to see all the practical tasks at once, and then may be choose
the ones corresponding to a specific category, like shopping, to see
the eggs for the cake, but also the batteries for the alarm clock...
And going back to the calendar, it would be then nice to be able to
drag and drop this tasks and to have your planning done for the next
days, weeks...
I hope somebady will be able to understand what I meant
Thanks anyhow for the software, it's really great....
Thanks
Pab

--- In taskcoach <at> yahoogroups.com, "The Rowes" <armando.rowe <at> ...> wrote:
>
> > > And as a native English speaker, "postpone" or "reschedule"
sound much
> > > better. push-back is very informal and open to misunderstanding.
> When
> > > people "push back" they are offering resistance.
> >
> > OK, I will keep this in mind.
> >
> > Thanks, Frank
> >
> Hi Carl, Frank:
>
> The Palm was a strong force in popularizing the use of the to-do list.
> It had this same issue: At the end of the day you had a bunch of tasks
> dated today. You needed to change the deadline, and going one by one
> would take forever.
>
> The most popular solution was an add-on called "Rollover". The
> simplest version took all pending tasks dated today and changed the
> deadline for tomorrow. The first refinement was to ask for the number
> of days, to jump from Friday to Monday on business tasks.
>
> I like the name rollover because it takes away all connotation of "I
> did not make it today" or "I am procrastinating", which is most
> typically not the case.
>
> I suggest that the implementation in task Coach should ask how many
> days, offer 1 as default, and apply only to currently visible tasks.
> This would allow me, for example, to roll over work tasks from Friday
> to Monday, and private tasks from Friday to Saturday.
>
> Best Regards. Armando.
>

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Hi Pab,

2008/3/11, pab_zianeb <pab_zianeb <at> yahoo.fr>:
> I also would like to have a calendar around.

I guess you mean a calendar view on the tasks. TC will not become a
general purpose calendar. However, viewing your tasks or effort on a
calendar might indeed be useful.

> I was wondering if you think it would be good to have the possibility
> to discriminate tasks this way, a bit like categories, but that would
> allow you to see the exact task. Going back to the example, I would be
> able to see all the practical tasks at once, and then may be choose
> the ones corresponding to a specific category, like shopping, to see
> the eggs for the cake, but also the batteries for the alarm clock...
> And going back to the calendar, it would be then nice to be able to
> drag and drop this tasks and to have your planning done for the next
> days, weeks...

This is exactly what categories are meant for. Create a category
'shopping' and then add all (sub)tasks that involve shopping to the
shopping category. If you check the shopping category in the category
viewer, only tasks that are in that category will be shown.

Cheers, Frank

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Hi Frank,

> I guess you mean a calendar view on the tasks. TC will not become a
> general purpose calendar. However, viewing your tasks or effort on a
> calendar might indeed be useful.

I was thinking of a similar thing - how about (preferably automated)
export of task dates into some calendar format ? There are many browsers
around that would read something like iCal in easily.

Regards, Petr

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Hi
Thanks a lot for a wonderful software.
I was wondering if it is possible to have relative links for
attachments in taskcoach. In future, if I want to move the task coach
and all the attached files to a different computer, I don't want the
links to be broken.
Thanks
Ranjan

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Hi Ranjan,

2008/3/18, pranjan77 <pranjan77 <at> gmail.com>:
> Hi
> Thanks a lot for a wonderful software.
> I was wondering if it is possible to have relative links for
> attachments in taskcoach. In future, if I want to move the task coach
> and all the attached files to a different computer, I don't want the
> links to be broken.

In the current version of Task Coach, you can edit the filename of
attachments and make them relative. I'm not entirely sure what the
base directory is that Task Coach will use when opening the
attachment. It may depend on the platform you're on and the way you
start Task Coach (e.g. from the start menu or by double clicking a
task file). You may want to experiment a bit to find out.

Maybe it's a good idea that Task Coach tries a few logical base
directories when opening attachment with relative file paths, such as
the folder where the task file itself is located, the current working
directory of the user and the folder where Task Coach lives. Jerome,
what do you think?

Cheers, Frank

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Frank Niessink wrote:

> Hi Ranjan,
>
> 2008/3/18, pranjan77 <pranjan77 <at> gmail.com>:
>> Hi
>> Thanks a lot for a wonderful software.
>> I was wondering if it is possible to have relative links for
>> attachments in taskcoach. In future, if I want to move the task coach
>> and all the attached files to a different computer, I don't want the
>> links to be broken.
>
> In the current version of Task Coach, you can edit the filename of
> attachments and make them relative. I'm not entirely sure what the
> base directory is that Task Coach will use when opening the
> attachment. It may depend on the platform you're on and the way you
> start Task Coach (e.g. from the start menu or by double clicking a
> task file). You may want to experiment a bit to find out.
>
> Maybe it's a good idea that Task Coach tries a few logical base
> directories when opening attachment with relative file paths, such as
> the folder where the task file itself is located, the current working
> directory of the user and the folder where Task Coach lives. Jerome,
> what do you think?

I think the best way is to store the path relative to the .tsk file.
problem: on Windows, it's not always possible to have a relative path
for a file (different drives).

Not something blocking though. I'll try to hack something up, it
should be rather easy.

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Hi all,

I have been thoroughly enjoying TaskCoach for some time now, without
encountering even the smallest bug ! However, I was wondering about
reminders. I noticed that a reminder can be planned for each task, but

a. IMHO, it would be better if, when you check the "reminder" box, the
reminder date was initialized to the due date (or maybe a little before)
rather than to today's date

b. I would appreciate to have a global reminder setting, which would
automatically create a reminder some time before the due date, each time
a new task is created. Does this already exist in TC ?

Cheers !
--
_Olivier Jousselin_ Solago sarl

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Hi Santa (you're early this year),

2008/3/19, Santa <santa <at> solago.com>:
> a. IMHO, it would be better if, when you check the "reminder" box, the
> reminder date was initialized to the due date (or maybe a little before)
> rather than to today's date

I agree. How about 8:00 (AM) on the due date as a default value?

> b. I would appreciate to have a global reminder setting, which would
> automatically create a reminder some time before the due date, each time
> a new task is created. Does this already exist in TC ?

No, not at the moment. Shouldn't be too hard to implement, though.

Cheers, Frank

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--- In taskcoach <at> yahoogroups.com, "Frank Niessink" <frank <at> ...> wrote:

> 2008/2/15, Markus Seebacher m.seebacher <at> ...:
> > However, there is a missing feature, wich is quite distracting to me:
> > - I cant get my UI Tab settings saved.
>
> Yes, this is very annoying, but unfortunately I cannot do much about
> it. The underlying widget from the graphical toolkit that Task Coach
> uses (wxPython) does not expose functionality to save the layout nor
> does it provide a way to extract the layout and save/restore it some
> other way.
>
> Cheers, Frank
>
Hi Frank,

You say that the toolkit does not have fonctionality to save the layout.  I understand that this could be complicated when you drag and drop tabs around, but could it be done through a preferences screen?

Have a screen that gives a choice of activating/deactivating a bottom area and a second top area (pretty standard looking layout).  Then have the list of all available "views", where we would select the position we want them to be:

• Top left
• Top right
• Bottom
• Hidden

And save this to be reapplied everyapp start.

I think that would fix 80% of the issue, which otherwise makes the feature useless.  I don't think I will drag my tabs around every morning...

Besides that, congrats on a neat app. 

Simon

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