In the new interface you can't see all the task that you have in your roles, like you could do in the old web app
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Hi rjlee,
Why do you say the new layout goes against Covey?
From my point of view it goes even more into Covey's philosophy.
- By having the Plan of the Week on the side, it is always visible. Having it under the schedule meant that you could lose it under the fold
- The Plan of the Week is still about roles and their important tasks. When you don't have a task for a specific role in the Plan of the Week, the tool will prompt you to add one by showing a dedicated textbox.
- The Plan of the Week tracks what the important stuff you want to accomplish this week, like Put First Things First.
Many people complaining about the new layout are misusing the roles list, because they are using them like a backlog of tasks grouped by role. If you want to do this, you can, but do it in a board.
It was much more intuitive before.
At the start of each week I like to look through each role and decide what my HITs for that week should be. It is now much more laborsome to consider each role individually simply because there is no place where all the roles are listed out in a way I can easily add, remove, or rearrange tasks for each role.
Aymeric Founder
It was much more intuitive before.
At the start of each week I like to look through each role and decide what my HITs for that week should be. It is now much more laborsome to consider each role individually simply because there is no place where all the roles are listed out in a way I can easily add, remove, or rearrange tasks for each role.
If you start a new week with no HIT, the Plan of the Week will show a textbox for each role to make it easy to quickly add a HIT for each.
If you need to add additional HITs per role, you can do that using the +.
Do you find this flow complicated? I am really trying to understand. Would you rather have the HITs grouped by role, even though you have to scroll?
Only tasks that come from the Plan of the Week get completely filled with color as a way to highlight them
Okay, I can guess why that is.
But the ability to easily add tasks to specific roles has been removed. I liked to ability to consider each role individually and them move tasks up to my weekly plan. It's easier to consider each role when I can easily see each role.
Even here, if you added "Roles" that would be great. "Schedule, Boards, Roles" Then have the HITs in Roles feed over to the Plan of the week HITs. It's the best of both worlds.
Aymeric Founder
Okay, I can guess why that is.
But the ability to easily add tasks to specific roles has been removed. I liked to ability to consider each role individually and them move tasks up to my weekly plan. It's easier to consider each role when I can easily see each role.
Even here, if you added "Roles" that would be great. "Schedule, Boards, Roles" Then have the HITs in Roles feed over to the Plan of the week HITs. It's the best of both worlds.
"Then have the HITs in Roles feed over to the Plan of the week HITs"
I didn't quite understand your suggestion. You suggest having a new view, that groups tasks by Role. I didn't understand, what is the different between HITs in Role and Plan of the week HITs?
If you start a new week with no HIT, the Plan of the Week will show a textbox for each role to make it easy to quickly add a HIT for each.
If you need to add additional HITs per role, you can do that using the +.
Do you find this flow complicated? I am really trying to understand. Would you rather have the HITs grouped by role, even though you have to scroll?
Could be a learning curve that we are struggling with. I don't mind scrolling, and I have a large monitor. :)
This may be a better design. But I do feel it's less intuitive. To me, it makes more sense to easily see the tasks listed under specific roles and then move them up into the weekly schedule.
Aymeric Founder
Could be a learning curve that we are struggling with. I don't mind scrolling, and I have a large monitor. :)
This may be a better design. But I do feel it's less intuitive. To me, it makes more sense to easily see the tasks listed under specific roles and then move them up into the weekly schedule.
Even the drag and dropping seems a lot easier with the list on the left rather than under.
"Then have the HITs in Roles feed over to the Plan of the week HITs"
I didn't quite understand your suggestion. You suggest having a new view, that groups tasks by Role. I didn't understand, what is the different between HITs in Role and Plan of the week HITs?
I prefer to easily see my tasks listed under each individual role, or at least I would like the option to see my tasks segmented in that way.
Aymeric Founder
I prefer to easily see my tasks listed under each individual role, or at least I would like the option to see my tasks segmented in that way.
Are you talking about all your tasks across all schedule and board, or just HITs?
When would you need this view?
Even the drag and dropping seems a lot easier with the list on the left rather than under.
True. I think many of us would just like to see a place where our tasks our segmented by Role in separate lists. When I first opened this week I though something was wrong with my browser. I kept trying to scroll down. I really thought it was a bug or a browser problem. I couldn't believe that I could not longer see tasks listed out by Roles.
My tasks aren't currently showing color all the way through, only a single line of color and the outline of the checkbox.
Only tasks that come from the Plan of the Week get completely filled with color as a way to highlight them