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Doreen replied on August 27, 2008 20:45 to the question "Reordering Tasks in Project List Won't Stick" in Enleiten:

Laura -

I'm having trouble replicating it on my accounts.

One thing I can think of at the moment - is the project list currently sorted by its display order? It won't allow a reordering if the list isn't in order and is sorted by name, etc.

If it is and you're still having trouble, we'll look into it further.

Doreen replied on August 27, 2008 17:29 to the question "Delegated task still in my In Box" in Enleiten:

A task will stay in the inbox until it is put in some project (personal or shared project).

When it is completed, it will move to the "Single Tasks" project that's built into every account. We put that there specifically for odd tasks that don't require a full project.

Waiting shows a copy of every task you've assigned or changed to a waiting status, no matter which project it's in. (So it doesn't take things out of any project, including the inbox).

Doreen marked one of Eric Hedberg's replies in Enleiten as useful. Eric Hedberg replied to the problem "The task that just won't go away".

Doreen replied on August 21, 2008 21:12 to the question "sub-projects" in Enleiten:

You also mentioned the ability to print - pretty much any on screen view (a project list, your next actions list, a context list of tasks) has a print stylesheet with it that should generate a clean copy for you to print and take with you.

I attached a screenshot of what would get sent to your printer from the context view above:

Doreen replied on August 21, 2008 20:58 to the question "sub-projects" in Enleiten:

No problem.

I use contexts in a GTD sense and as more normal web 2.0 style tags to organize my task lists.


@ is to help me pick what I energy and resources to work on

A: is for areas of focus- I review this on completed tasks every few weeks to see if I am allocating my time well and in line with my priorities

F: lets me find tasks related to certain types of functionality within the app

P: pulls tasks and tasks within projects that all belong together so I can get an overview of what is happening in subprojects and the whole project (anything that can happen in parallel gets its own project, things that need to happen in order generally go in the same project)

V: things related to only some versions of the app development

To pull together related subprojects, I can click the relevant context tag:

Doreen replied on August 21, 2008 19:25 to the question "sub-projects" in Enleiten:

If it helps, I can grab some sample screenshots of how I have these set up personally too.

Doreen replied on August 19, 2008 21:21 to the idea "Would like a report to show boss how much is on each employee's plate" in Enleiten:

We've been thinking about ways to implement this - if you could give us some more insight into how you'd like it to work, that would help us do it right.

We've got 3 options for allowing this kind of functionality:

1. You can click the user's name to see a list of both tasks you've assigned them, and tasks others have assigned them in group projects.

2. We can allow you to see an open task count for those people, just the number based on what is in either group or all projects for them. (Obviously the total number of tasks would be less useful if personal items are included in non-group projects, but pulling only from group projects might give you a complete scope)

3. We could try to allow you to see tasks the user has flagged with a specific context, like @work, to pull the person's open list so a supervisor could view it like option 1. (Eric's least favorite option)

We do want to maintain a user's ability to keep their personal to-do lists private, but in the same place as their work-related tasks, so those are the best solutions we've thought up to address this.

Doreen replied on August 19, 2008 21:11 to the idea "Make next actions folder useful for groups" in Enleiten:

That's actually coming right now, it should be released within a week. The changes will also make it easier to track who is responsible for which items in a group project and approve completion of assigned tasks.

Doreen

Doreen started following the idea "Make next actions folder useful for groups" in Enleiten.

Doreen replied on July 31, 2008 06:56 to the question "Reordering Tasks in Project List Won't Stick" in Enleiten:

Karen - we just pushed the update a few minutes ago, if you still have any difficulties after a refresh, please let us know.

Doreen replied on July 30, 2008 13:40 to the question "Datebook view has mixture of completed and uncompleted tasks" in Enleiten:

Karen -

Would a button to toggle whether completed items were displayed work for you? (like the one available for a project currently)

Doreen replied on July 28, 2008 18:13 to the question "Reordering Tasks in Project List Won't Stick" in Enleiten:

It's a bug for IE users. The fix has been written and will go out with our next software push shortly. We estimate that should go out within a week or less.

-Doreen

Doreen replied on July 28, 2008 17:41 to the idea "One-click new task entry?" in Enleiten:

Hi Karen -

We are working on some changes to the task detail page now so you'll be able to edit task details without a full page load. In the meantime though, any of the task details like context and due date that show up in a list can be edited without going into the task detail page.

Double click on the field (even if it is blank) and you'll get a window where you can enter comma-separated contexts.

You can also drag and drop tasks to an existing context without going into task detail to assign them. (You can also select multiple rows at once and drag them to assign.)

Do those ideas make things easier for you?

-Doreen