#31 Personal tasks

[Aaron Hathaway]

First let me complement you on a marvelous project. I
spent several months searching for a project manager
that was capable but not overly specialized (i.e., help
desks, software development, and so on), and was
delighted when I stumbled on Webcollab. Many many
thanks for an extremely useful project--I wish they
were all this good.

I've had a number of users ask me if there's a way to
set up tasks not associated with a specific project.
It strikes me that this is useful for two reasons. For
starters, people have lots of tasks that aren't
necessarily associated with a particular project, and
it would be nice to be able maintain a miscellaneous
collection of tasks. The other compelling reason is
that were users able to track personal tasks in
Webcollab, they'd be more likely to become dependent on
the software, and would be more likely to use it (the
alternative is that users are stuck managing their
tasks in more than one place).

One approach to solving this is to permit a second type
of task container, in addition to a project container.
This "task list" container wouldn't require a progress
bar, of course. The only other thing that would be
useful is to allow users to make either private or
shared task lists (in order to separate shared
miscellaneous tasks from personal tasks that other
users don't need to see).

This strikes me as quite useful, but I'm curious to
know what you think.

Thanks again.

[Kris Jordan]

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So that I can have a set of personal/private tasks I had to
make my own group, then create a project using that group
w/o "All users can view this item?" checked. Then the tasks
are inside that project.