Improve Tasks
Dear Open-Xchange, thank you for all your hard work in making improvements to the app suite. Here are some suggestions to create a better customer experience with Tasks:
1. Give customers the option to search tasks by ALL lists, by default, instead of defaulting to the current list and needing to manually change it to ALL each time they want to search that way.
2. Give customers the option to see the full task field when creating a new task or editing an existing one, instead of forcing them into the additional and unnecessary step of clicking "expand form" every time.
3. Integrate tasks with due dates into the calendar functionality so they show up on the calendar at the appropriate times (either as all day events, or at set times, with notifications still functional). Likewise, give customers the ability to create tasks as calendar events within the calendar app (selecting which list they want the task to go in so that it shows up in the appropriate list within Tasks after being created within the Calendar app).
4. Give customers the ability to drag and drop tasks to reorder them within a given list, not just move them from one list to another. If this is implemented, allow an option in "sort by" to something like "my order" which would respect the visual order of the tasks within a given list.
5. Create a built in time tracking tool that customers can turn on or off when working on a task, which then automatically gets added and updated in the task itself for time tracking purposes.
6. Give customers the ability to create sub-tasks within the description field of a task. This should include the ability to to check them off when done, and uncheck them as well.
7. Give customers the ability to sort their "My lists" tasks based on their preferred order, with drag and drop ability, instead of defaulting to alphabetical order.
8. Give customers the ability to fully edit a task directly within the right hand panel description instead of it opening up a new window.
9. Give customers the ability to undo a task deletion.
10. Give customers the ability to choose which list a new task automatically defaults to instead of defaulting to whichever list is manually selected. Why? To make it easy to add new tasks to the inbox/Tasks folder. If this change is made, there should still be a way for customers to easily add a new task to the specific list that is selected.
11. Dramatically speed up the load time when moving from one task list to another. Customers should never see a loading circle waiting for their tasks in a given list to appear.
12. Create a default "Done" or "Completed" folder/list that all completed tasks automatically show up in, in addition to them remaining marked as "done" in the specific list they were completed in (so essentially, it's a duplicate list). This makes it easier for customers to keep track of all their completed tasks in one place, while also keeping them organized in their original lists.
13. For tasks due today that were created as all day events, they incorrectly show up as Status "OVERDUE". Update this so that all day events, due today, have a Status which shows something like "DUE TODAY".
14. If it can work with CalDAV syncing purposes, give customers the option to edit the fields that appear after clicking "show details" for their own custom entries - meaning they could change the titles for various entries to match their own use cases.
15. In the app portal, give customers extensive control to customize the Task widget. Customers are currently limited to only seeing tasks that are due soon or overdue. Expand this to allow customers to pick which tasks they see, in which lists, and by which sorting criteria they prefer. In addition, fix the UI which cuts off task name descriptions with a lengthy due date and status sitting to the right of it. Instead, show the full task name on one line, and the due date and status directly beneath it for each task.
16. After a reminder for a task has been set, make it show up in the UI. Either as 1) an icon on the task item itself, indicating a reminder has been set. Or 2) by adjusting the description of the task to show customers that a reminder has been set and when (without needing to edit the task to check). Or 3) both 1 and 2.
Hello,
thank you very much for your message and your impressive list of proposals.We are not Open Xchange, we are mailbox.org. We can of course forward your feature requests to Open Xchange. Unfortunateley we can't keep you updated on those requests.
With kinde regards
Your mailbox.org team
Hello,
thank you very much for your message and your impressive list of proposals.We are not Open Xchange, we are mailbox.org. We can of course forward your feature requests to Open Xchange. Unfortunateley we can't keep you updated on those requests.
With kinde regards
Your mailbox.org team
You're welcome. I posted this "impressive list of proposals" here for that exact purpose - for Mailbox to forward these feature requests to the company with the power to make the changes. Assuming that's actually been done (not merely something that "can" be done), I appreciate you joining me in making the tasks experience better for everyone.
You're welcome. I posted this "impressive list of proposals" here for that exact purpose - for Mailbox to forward these feature requests to the company with the power to make the changes. Assuming that's actually been done (not merely something that "can" be done), I appreciate you joining me in making the tasks experience better for everyone.
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