Can we make Craft Tasks better?
This feature request might be quite different from Craft's current roadmap, but I'd love to get community feedback on my thought.
Craft tasks seems to be just a little bit away from being good enough. The best part of using craft for tasks is the tasks live within notes, which organically is the best place for them to be when creating them. We ideate the next set of tasks when we research an idea, flesh out a concept, discuss a problem with someone else. Thats where notes reside and tasks or action items should be just beside that.
The problem starts when we are planning when to work on these tasks. We want to plan our week, look at all tasks for 4-5 different projects and plan out our professional work week. We want to look at our chores and fit in our chores on specific days when we have bandwidth. While technically craft provides a "all tasks" view, I think the UI is nowhere close to the quality of user experience Craft otherwise boasts of (thats kind of the USP for using Craft anyway). Trying to be objective I find the following things must have for a fully featured task management:
- Tasks markable to In Progress (not just todo or done)
- Instead of All tasks, have custom views having selection of tasks using filters (tag filter, document filter, etc). Let us build our own views instead of having everything in one place.
- Keep task views separate from documents preferably - I personally feel that creates a separation of concern which helps productivity.
I have vibecoded a crude solution, thanks to the fact that Craft exposes everything over APIs, which has currently helped me move away from all other task apps fully into craft. I successfully combined all my needed features, but it definitely a different app working on the same data, and hardly having the polish we can get from a paid application like Craft. Looking forward to some of the same features on the craft app itself.
Anyone else feels this as a priority for their work?