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I'd love to see an easier way to deal with due dates in GoPlan. I've used several apps like basecamp, highrise, batchbook, zoho projects, google calendar, etc. and they all have a really easy way of assigning dates to things.

GoPlan uses the drop downs for month and day, but on these other systems, you can type in a date without having to work with cumbersome drop down menus. More importantly, you can use natural language words and phrases such as today, tomorrow, next Friday, next week, or next month. If you've ever used google calendar you know what I'm talking about. It assigns the due date based on the natural language logic. Well, I've gotten spoiled by working with due dates in this manner. It's really slick and I really hate going back to drop downs. Granted it's not a deal killer and actually a pretty minor thing, but since we're encouraged to share ideas and ask for stuff...

I think it would be great to have that capability in GoPlan!

Discussions are great, but when you have many discussions on the page, it gets a little hard to work with. Visually, it can be hard to see where a discussion ends and a new begins. The font size for discussion titles is so close to the same used for body text. This could really be as simple as making the titles of each discussion appear in a much larger size. That way you could scan down the page more quickly and easily see where new discussions start.

Additionally, seeing the whole message of each discussion without display options is not a good idea in my opinion - especially when those creating discussions that are several paragraphs long. It would be nice if you could toggle between a "verbose" view and a condensed view which showed a limited amount of the initial discussion post. Just something to make this section a little easier to work with when a whole lot of discussions happening. Even with only a half dozen long discussions, that section of GoPlan gets really long really quick.

In our projects, the discussions are is used for job scoping and project planning so the initial posts and subsequent replies can be pretty lengthy.

I also wish hyperlinked text stood out a little more too. The choice of link color does not stand out enough in my opinion.

I'd love it if tasks could be managed more specifically, as this is the main feature I use to manage projects and my own personal workflow.

I'd like especially to see 'private' tasks - tasks I could setup and associate with a project for my own reference - but other users on the project wouldn't be able to see them. I have things I like to check off that I don't necessarily wanting clients to see. Also having tasks only 'checkable' to the user it is assigned to - non assigned users could still see the non-private tasks, but don't have the option to check them as complete.

Email reminders would be great, emailing the assigned user a few days before the task is due to remind them.

Finally, I'd love to have the option to display actual due date as well, rather than just the days to completion.

Hoping some of these features are already in the works for Goplan2 (which, when is it scheduled to be released? I'm very much looking forward to it!) Thanks!

The agenda page off the dashboard is a great start toward a page that would be really useful for me. I love what it does already; showing milestones and tasks with due dates. However, I wish it showed all tasks that are assigned to me, broken down by project.

I did a sort of mockup for how this would be great for me. This is what "could be" displayed below the section on the agenda that currently shows items with due dates.



I think this would be really helpful. As it is right now, there's no place in GoPlan where I can see all tasks assigned to me across all projects.

Yes, this will reference Backpack. But let me say, I'm looking to make the switch to GP -- in fact, have already subscribed. But one feature of Backpack that I did find useful, was the Pages concept. Being able to create/group related information on a page.

I like being able to combine dividers, notes, images, etc, easily.

Why? Because as a graphic/web designer, I'm looking for a solution that can serve as both a project manager, AND an "intranet." For example, in a current large website project, I need the Dashboard, Tasks, and other PM functions. But, I also want to be able to communicate information and ideas to my writing partner. And have a Page or section to serve as a style guide, that we can reference and revise. Subject-based pages to contain ideas.

Maybe as another tab within Goplan? Tasks, Notes, Pages.

Anyway -- to me, that's almost the only "missing link" that would make Goplan a COMPLETE project management solution.

I was just looking over the various projects on goplan and had a thought. I would like to have statuses on each project, viewable from my dashboard, that tell me what my status is on the project (for example "Waiting for client response to email on 3rd January"). This personal status would be set and only viewable by the project owner. Or there could be a global project "status" that gives a brief summary of where things stand that everyone can see.

I know I could use notes, but that requires delving into the project. I'd like to see a dashboard that provides more an overview of progress across projects, not just an update of recent activity.

GoPlan is terrific for project task tracking but we still run a separate helpdesk system. If GoPlan had the ability to submit tickets by email it would go a long way to be our one-stop solution. Zendesk do this brilliantly if you need an example of how it could work.