Comments on: Tasks Pro™ 1.7 beta 2 and Tasks 2.7 beta 2 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/13/tasks-pro-17-beta-2-and-tasks-27-beta-2 Alex King's blog - software, photography, sports, etc. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:11:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Chris Meller http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/13/tasks-pro-17-beta-2-and-tasks-27-beta-2#comment-29459 Chris Meller Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:58:01 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/13/tasks-pro-17-beta-2-and-tasks-27-beta-2#comment-29459 Just to let you know: Overall, I like the tagging implementation pretty well. There are a couple of things that annoy me and a few other comments I'd like to make. Hopefully I'll finish that draft forum post sometime today... Just don't go crazy and release yet. :) Just to let you know: Overall, I like the tagging implementation pretty well. There are a couple of things that annoy me and a few other comments I’d like to make. Hopefully I’ll finish that draft forum post sometime today… Just don’t go crazy and release yet. :)

]]> By: Alex http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/13/tasks-pro-17-beta-2-and-tasks-27-beta-2#comment-29450 Alex Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:33:21 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/13/tasks-pro-17-beta-2-and-tasks-27-beta-2#comment-29450 Chris W - sorry, we can't upgrade accounts individually at Use Tasks. Kerim - Sorry I wasn't clear. I'm specifically looking for feedback on the tagging implementation - the Beta Discussion <a href="http://www.kingdesign.net/forums/">forums</a> are the right place to post. Chris W - sorry, we can’t upgrade accounts individually at Use Tasks.

Kerim - Sorry I wasn’t clear. I’m specifically looking for feedback on the tagging implementation - the Beta Discussion forums are the right place to post.

]]> By: Kerim Friedman http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/13/tasks-pro-17-beta-2-and-tasks-27-beta-2#comment-29449 Kerim Friedman Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:10:26 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/13/tasks-pro-17-beta-2-and-tasks-27-beta-2#comment-29449 Well, I thought tags would bring me back to Tasks from KGTD ... but I've switched back to KGTD again. Tasks is great, I think it is probably the best solution for someone who needs to move between computers - but I ran Tasks on localhost and the slow speed of PHP/Mysql on my iBook compared with a Cocoa App like KGTD was a big reason for my decision not to switch back. Another was the ease of use of Quicksilver with KGTD. I still think Tasks beats KGTD in a number of ways - for instance, KGTD doesn't really offer anything like the "magic sort" view of the Tasks home page, or the "sortable" page, or even the upcomming page (although hopefully the "next action summary" will return in a future version). Similarly, contexts are not the same things as tags. There is no way to assign more than one context in KGTD the way one can assign multiple tags in Tasks. But, in the end, the real killer for me was the ability to have true two-way sync with my Palm. It is a pain - since I have to run both iSync and KGTD sync - but it kinda works. Finally, a bug in PHPiCalendar meant that Chinese was not displaying properly in iCal, which meant that it didn't work for me. Tasks is a great product, but picking the right tool has a lot to do with how you will actually use it. Well, I thought tags would bring me back to Tasks from KGTD … but I’ve switched back to KGTD again. Tasks is great, I think it is probably the best solution for someone who needs to move between computers - but I ran Tasks on localhost and the slow speed of PHP/Mysql on my iBook compared with a Cocoa App like KGTD was a big reason for my decision not to switch back. Another was the ease of use of Quicksilver with KGTD. I still think Tasks beats KGTD in a number of ways - for instance, KGTD doesn’t really offer anything like the “magic sort” view of the Tasks home page, or the “sortable” page, or even the upcomming page (although hopefully the “next action summary” will return in a future version). Similarly, contexts are not the same things as tags. There is no way to assign more than one context in KGTD the way one can assign multiple tags in Tasks. But, in the end, the real killer for me was the ability to have true two-way sync with my Palm. It is a pain - since I have to run both iSync and KGTD sync - but it kinda works. Finally, a bug in PHPiCalendar meant that Chinese was not displaying properly in iCal, which meant that it didn’t work for me.

Tasks is a great product, but picking the right tool has a lot to do with how you will actually use it.

]]> By: Chris W http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/13/tasks-pro-17-beta-2-and-tasks-27-beta-2#comment-29448 Chris W Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:20:44 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/13/tasks-pro-17-beta-2-and-tasks-27-beta-2#comment-29448 I would evaluate it, and give feedback if my account at UseTasks were upgraded to the current beta. I understand that that might not be easy, but I am waiting for tags to be implemented before I really begin to use UseTasks, so I have a very high motivation as an evaluator. I would evaluate it, and give feedback if my account at UseTasks were upgraded to the current beta. I understand that that might not be easy, but I am waiting for tags to be implemented before I really begin to use UseTasks, so I have a very high motivation as an evaluator.

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