My dream has always been to simply have all my tasks and subtasks in an expandable panel on the left side, and then be able to just drag these directly onto a calendar / timeline / board etc. Surprisingly I haven’t found almost any applications that do this, even though it seems like by far the most intuitive and fastest way of adding a task.
Legend App (formerly Moo.do) is the only one I’ve seen, and a promised update to Remnote 1.8 has hinted at an extension offering this.
Could this be added to Fibery? It would really improve speed and usability and set it apart from other systems.
Hi, Dave!
I’m not sure that I fully understand the flow, telling the truth
So, you use Smart Folders, right? And your Tasks appear in the Left Menu.
But if they appear in the left menu, they automatically appear in any View - Board, Table and Calendar/Timeline (if you put some Values in the Date field)
Because Views are not Data containers, they only visualize Data that lives in Databases. So no matter where you add it - in List, Smart Folders, any other place - they will be seen in all the other Views automatically.
What am I missing? Could you please share more, maybe with some screenshots?
Yes this screenshot shows a smart folder of “tasks” on the left.
I’ve created a timeline with swimlanes for a “time block” tag. An example would be, if I had time during lunch to install the garage bike rack, it would be awesome if I could just drag that task from the smart list right onto the timeline view.
Another example for tasks with a more specific time. If I could drag “call window people” right from the smart list directly onto the weekly calendar on Tuesday July 5 at 5:00 that would be so nice:
Currently to assign a time you have to click into the task itself, select the date range picker, enter a start time, manually type in a enter an end time (since the end time doesn’t default to something clickable or useful like 1 hour later the same day) then navigate back to the weekly plan view. It would just make a very time consuming workflow into something pretty instant.
The current workflow is just too slow for adding / planning tasks on a weekly calendar.
Hoping it can eventually feel as quick as writing down a task on a paper weekly calendar.
^^ This is exactly what I’d like to avoid honestly. It’s really time consuming to add stuff to every date field. Especially if you’re adding dates later than when you create the task, clicking into each task to manually add the date is just too time consuming for quickly planning.
It’s an extra couple of clicks, but you can go to Backlog and choose Plan for Today, which gets the item on the calendar, and from there you can start dragging it around.
`Many thanks for the details, Dave!
No promises at all but noted your case - hopefully we would improve our backlog section and will see how it goes with Smart folders some day
The problem with the backlog is it doesn’t offer nesting, or a search, or even a way to sort so it’s just an insanely long list.
If the backlog offered the same ability to nest subtasks inside tasks that the smart list had, or display a specific smart list, or even had a search box this would work well, or at the very least offered a way to sort alphabetically it could work well. The current implementation of the backlog is not quite usable for the reasons above.
How does the backlog sort things? It seems a bit random?
I’m only mentioning all this because I feel like Fibery has enormous potential and there’s a few last mile things that keep me from using it as a daily driver effectively. It’s pretty amazing what it does so far, and it was never designed as a task manager specifically so the fact that it gets close to beating the actual task managers is really saying something.
I’m also interested. I’ve been in search of something digital that could get close to the Planner Pad model of organization. I, too, had been using Moo.do (formerly Legend) to try and accomplish this.
I use a Board to accomplish the First and Second (top and middle on the piece of paper) steps (catalog and curate tasks by project, and then decide on which day of the week I want to work on them). The last part, where I’d ideally be able to “drag” a task onto a specific time window would be killer, especially if it was also integrated with my calendar, so I’d be able to schedule around meetings and things.
Also, one of the powerful concepts of Moo.Do is its ability to display multiple “panes” at the same time. A pane is their version of a view. Each pane can get custom filters and displays some section of the underlying data. You can drag entities between panes, too. It’s awesome. Currently in Fibery, I’ll open two separate browser windows to try and replicate this concept (e.g. seeing two different views at the same time)
I think this is a whole new type of interaction for Fibery to support, but I would certainly love to see it: dragging and dropping as a UI interaction, and various kinds of results, e.g. embed/instantiate blocks of content, drag things onto a Whiteboard, scheduling tasks (or other entities with dates), etc. It could have semi-broad utility as an overall interaction mechanism. But I don’t how know complicated it is to implement.
We’re building a planning solution. It’s currently very hard to create an intuitive flow to plan your week & day for customers. Drag & drop would solve a lot
Also really need this feature, need to schedule tasks at specific times and dates, whilst having an open calendar view. I think htis has a lot of use cases.
Not having seamless dragging and dropping is one of the things I miss most about ClickUp. I end up having to create buttons for doing things a simple as moving a “task” from a “backlog” into a “release” so it can worked on which is a bit crazy.
You can obviously always “move” things by manually changing their relationship fields, but that’s often 4-5 clicks to drill down to the right place and then (for us at least) there thousands and thousands of similarly named things that make it very hard right one most of the time.
We build a lot for the week/day planning but also removed it since it was too complex.
Currently we have the following setup.
1 view for ‘Today’ → with items for that day so that you can work with focus
1 view for ‘This week’ → with items for this week
We tried to create an overview of all days in the week but we have two type of planning fields
A deadline → date field
A ‘vague planning’ → like this week/this month/this quarter
And because of that, we unfortunately couldn’t find a way to have a board view with all days. We tried it with a bunch of automations but it didn’t worked well enough.
Still hoping that the calendar function will be extended some day
Cool. How do you populate the Today and This week views, and do you use calendar or timeline views, or some other workaround? If your setup is like mine, you have a long list of entities that need to be prioritized and scheduled. You can use filters and views like boards to help with that, but then do you manually edit the date+time field on each entity?
