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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 15, 2008 at 08:53 PM
Graham Rhind wrote:
>But it doesn’t have any support for recurring tasks
>...
>In any case, it’s a deal breaker for me, so the wait
>continues ...
I think the meaning of ‘task’ in Tasktop’s context is much closer to ‘project’ in my own mind. This would also explain the lack of hiearchical tasks as noted by Dominik. Unless one would want to use categories for projects which would be rather useless in my case.
alx
Posted by Graham Rhind
Feb 15, 2008 at 09:16 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Graham Rhind wrote:
>>But it doesn’t have any support for recurring tasks
>>...
>>In
>any case, it’s a deal breaker for me, so the wait
>>continues ...
>
>I think the meaning
>of ‘task’ in Tasktop’s context is much closer to ‘project’ in my own mind. This would
>also explain the lack of hiearchical tasks as noted by Dominik. Unless one would want
>to use categories for projects which would be rather useless in my case.
>
>alx
Quite possibly, though the lack nesting suggest a basic task list to me. Mik Kerstin has already let me know that he also thinks they should allow for recurring tasks, so perhaps it will be implemented. It’s clearly an early release and a work in progress.
I must also compliment their technical service, which have been sweating hard for some hours to identify a problem with Tasktop on my machine.
Graham
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 15, 2008 at 09:27 PM
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>saving the workspace on an USB drive works quite well on my systems
How exactly do you do that? I found no way to configure where Tasktop saves its files (which I find very unhelpful actually).
TIA
alx
Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Feb 16, 2008 at 07:12 AM
Alx,
Go to Window -> Preferences… -> Mylyn -> Task List -> Click on Task Data (Advanced) then click on ‘Browse’ at Data directory to choose your perferred drive and folder.
Not really a nice place for such an important setting.
Regarding repeating tasks:
I don’t date them. I just keep them in the category. Not perfect but enough for the moment.
Support:
the support is great and I got a immediate reply on an email I sent with my wishlist.
Dominik
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>>saving the workspace on an USB drive works quite well on
>my systems
>
>How exactly do you do that? I found no way to configure where Tasktop saves
>its files (which I find very unhelpful actually).
>
>TIA
>alx
>
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 23, 2008 at 07:42 AM
I thought I’d post an update on my experience with Tasktop as I’ve been using it for the last couple of months or so, since the Summer 2008 version (1.20) was released.
The killer feature that acted as an incentive for me to integrate it in my workflow was the automatic time recording / reporting integrated in the program. Read more about it here: http://tasktop.com/blog/?p=33
The concept of a task-focused workspace is brilliant. Tasktop can provide a place to do many things from—especially if one works a lot within a browser- while recording addresses visited and files opened during the time a task was active. The internal browser uses most of IE’s plug-ins that I have installed, e.g. Surfulater and Evernote, and now offers (limited) OLE support that works fine with MS Office applications.
Several enhancements have been made since Tasktop was first discussed here, including multi-level tasks. In fact, I found that Tasktop does many of the things I wished it would do, though this wasn’t quite apparent to me at first.
The program’s support is top class, even for users like me who don’t have the patience to RTFM. In fact, the developers are currently doing a round of phone calls to users to discuss their experience with Tasktop. I wish more companies would do this kind of thing.
The main issues I still have with Tasktop are:
(a) it’s a memory hog and rather slow in my year-old machine; I would attribute both of these to its use of Java
(b) it’s clearly aimed at software developers as can be seen by the kind of external connectors contemplated: https://tasktop.com/support/survey/integrations.php
The developers are aware of both of the above; from our phone discussion it is clear that they are working on the speed / performance issues (indeed v.1.20 should be better than its predecessors) and they are looking into ways that the program’s target public can be expanded.
That’s it for the moment
Alexander