I think a calendar sync feature (with Google, Exchange) would make the product a complete solution.
I have been searching for a task management tool that would let me plan at all levels - long term, month, week, day and hour. WeekPlan comes very close to what I want, but I'd like to add the ability to plan my day in a more granular way. I have meetings, etc to plan around, and I'd like to be able to sync with my calendars to see what time slots I have open to devote to tasks in my todo list. That is a feature I would happily pay a premium price for.
Thanks for a great product!
Thanks for a great product!
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I would love to have my Google Calendar items pulled into WP (I tried Zapier but it doesn't pull existing items) where I could see a day layout similar to what I think Nick is talking about: it would have time slots similar to GCal's weekly view where they days are side-by-side with a time grid where items could be placed.
That view would show all items on the external calendar (GCal in this case) but would allow me to insert my items onto it from WP. Now...here's where it would be AMAZINGLY awesome - changes made in WP would alter my GCal since that is what I use to manage my main schedule and what my assistant and my team use to track my appointments/locations.
For example, if I add a goal or task from WP to the calendar and place it to begin at 5:30am on a Tues (an item such as "Exercise"), it would show up on my GCal so I would get alerts via my phone's calendar. Recurring items created in WP would also copy over to GCal. And...any recurring items created by my assistant in GCal (or any item for that matter) would copy over to WP so that when I open up WP to plan my week or review my goals, I see appointments I might need to schedule around.
I REALLY want this to work for my situation - the problem I've had is that Zapier doesn't bring times over to WP from GCal and the view in WP doesn't show me gaps in the days where I can place activities that are important to me. Also, copying a task from WP to GCal does work but if I create a goal, Zapier doesn't move it to GCal - it seems to ignore goals that are added to a day on WP. I also got a weird infinite loop when I tried to send items from WP to Gcal and vice versa - they just kept recreating themselves over and over and cluttering up my calendar.
Does this make sense? Is this something that can be done? If you need more clarification, I'm happy to provide more details.
Thanks!
As for calendar integration, what I would envision is that when you click on the day name, where you currently see the quadrants view, there would be a second option to see the day planner view instead. This would be similar to the day view on gmail's calendar, and would show any meetings or events that I have on my external calendars. I could then drag my planned tasks for that day onto particular timeslots that are empty. If there are conflicts, I would just put them side by side, again similar to gmail's calendar.
These are suggestions, but I already love the tool as it is. Thanks!
As for calendar integration, what I would envision is that when you click on the day name, where you currently see the quadrants view, there would be a second option to see the day planner view instead. This would be similar to the day view on gmail's calendar, and would show any meetings or events that I have on my external calendars. I could then drag my planned tasks for that day onto particular timeslots that are empty. If there are conflicts, I would just put them side by side, again similar to gmail's calendar.
These are suggestions, but I already love the tool as it is. Thanks!
I have a question: how would you describe your ideal long term goal planner? I would like to have that in weekplan, but haven't found an elegant solution yet.