Subtask
Rorrie
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AI Planner mode and the subtasks feature.
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Kennedy
I love the planner and everything but it is a struggle to use it because there is no section to make subtasks and so I have to use the tags and I don’t want to have multiple tags up making me feel overwhelmed but other thing you should add would be like an ai planner that you make a time table of your work schedule, school schedule, basically any schedule and the ai uses it to plan out tasks for your day and breaks them down into chunks
Rorrie
Hi Stephanie Zapuchlak - great thoughts, thank you for talking through how you work best - we'd love to bring Subtasks in soon! Do you often split project work into multiple days? :)
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Stephanie Zapuchlak
Rorrie - hey! So I noticed you have something called "projects" and I havent used those, but based on what I gathered from screenshots- it looks like a much bigger feature than what I am looking for. I use Sunsama and I am sure you have seen it since you're in the somewhat same product sphere, but an example of a task would be "mockup of certain ui component", and then the subtasks would be design, create user story, etc". Sometimes these tasks rollover on days, and I understand that would be more work development wise. So I would even take the full task moving over with subtasks on days. I just need a better way of grouping smaller tasks into a medium sized task, but not necessarily a project sized thing. I attatched a sunsama example. While I like sunsama, i dont need all the stuff it offers and feel like for what I need it for it is bloated. The timer aspects on tasks is awesome too which i find motivates me more that i can see the actual time vs estimated time. But now I am getting off track on a diff feature!
Rorrie
Stephanie Zapuchlak: We LOVE when we get such inspired feedback - keep it coming!
I'd love to hear more 👀 Subtasks is one of the improvements we are working on - thank you for letting me know how you'd utilize it. The pic really helps me visualize your request - do you like to review your time spent per task each week? ^-^ feel free to email us too, if you wanna explore a little more!
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Stephanie Zapuchlak
Rorrie thanks! Im an ex- UX designer turned product manager - so I love giving and getting feedback! I also just love seeing how products function and the features they include based on feedback. But as for the reviewing time- I look at it daily just to see what I accomplished the day previous, and use it as motivation. It helps me so much with seeing how I estimate work and deadlines. But weekly- not so much!!
Rorrie
Stephanie Zapuchlak: Good to know on your distinction! How do you usually go about planning your day/week/projects? Morning, noon, night, as needed?
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Stephanie Zapuchlak
Rorrie I use the brain dump typed section and drag everything over into the planner type days(not the cal view so much). I like getting a high level overview of my days, and less of time boxing, but I get everyone has a different approach. I think you guys do a much better job of having that right side panel to enter in tasks and dump them there and I also love the filtering over there as well. I look at my running task list/backlog on Monday morning (for work) and drag what I know for sure needs to happen on certain days. But because I work with tasks that might move around, I look at my next days tasks at the end of the workday to plan the next day. Same goes for personal typed tasks as well. I end up using planner instead of cal, because my weeks are way more flexible than rigid time boxing. I would switch over to LifeAt in a heartbeat if subtasks existed. I just can’t get by without them, as some of my tasks need them to help me break them down. If you ever do beta or need testers of features, do NOT hesitate to reach out!!!