Thanks again for sharing your work process. If you would like to further discuss how Tasktop can support your process, it would be great to hear from you. My email is wesley.coelho@tasktop.com.

Cheers,

Wesley

> a. Of all this sequence, what can be accomplished with Tasktop?

Interestingly, almost all of it. You will need a compatible task repository to set up things like goals and plans, and once that’s done the other things become a very natural part of the Tasktop workflow.

We rely on integrations with existing tools, such as email clients and calendars, to ensure that you whole workday can be focused. If any integration is missing, just let us know. Also, we are very interested to hear more about how Tasktop supports the process that you have outlined, so please keep us posted either on this blog on by mailing info@tasktop.com.

Thanks for your questions and thorough break down of your work process. Mik is traveling at the moment so I’ll just give a quick overview of the Tasktop features (present and planned) that support aspects of your work flow.

Tasktop already supports many of the steps throughout your process and features are in development that will improve this support. In some respects we work similarly here at Tasktop Technologies. Much of the containment facilities already in the Task List (queries, categories, subtasks) work great for organizing both top level and finer grain tasks. Tasks can then be easily prioritized, scheduled, and assigned to those responsible. Since all activities are tasks, they can be found immediately through the Task List find box or more advanced repository search.

Tasktop tracks the time spent per task and developers can review their activity in tabular and graph form (short video http://www.tasktop.com/videos/1.2/introduction/reporting/). In future releases, developers will have the option to submit time to the central task repository. Estimates and times will then be aggregated and summarized for managers to easily monitor project health.

Tasktop does not currently include graphic design tool support but feel free to submit an enhancement request:

http://tasktop.com/bugs

Mik, will follow up with further discussion once online.

-Rob

Glad to hear you’re seeing excellent performance from Tasktop on Linux. In theory there should be no significant performance difference between Tasktop on Windows, Linux, or Mac. However, performance can be affected by number of tasks, number of folders linked into the Tasktop Navigator etc. Of course, it could just be that your Linux distro is fast!

To answer your question regarding licensing, if you’ve purchased one version of Tasktop, you’ve purchased them all. After purchasing, simply revisit http://tasktop.com/support/download/ and download whichever version you desire.

-Rob

I saw part of your Tasktop presentation last night, I was impressed. I live with the daily problem of finding multiple resources in my growing hard disk for my daily work.

Unfortunately I am tired of testing Organizers, PIMs, PMs, CRMs, ERP, and all type of fancy programs, these represents more junk, complexity and overhead to my laptop and tired brain I need something effective, intuitive, easy, fast and powerful without being bloated.

Mik, I would like to use one single organization/administrative/productivity tool, and I think I am not the only one. Probably you have the resources to create that magic/master mind tool.

1.- I usually establish a Goal or target,
2.- Then I need to envision what I want and make a rough concept of that, usually, I use an easy/fast to use graphic design tool to present what is in my mind, it is not perfect but it works.
3.- Then I state an Strategic Plan, so I need a planner at high level,
4.- Then I try to set a Tactic Plan with all the steps, tasks and roles I or the group need to follow to reach the Goal, with estimated times.
4.1 If the Tactic Plan is very complex I need to break it down in Programs and if they are very complex each Program into
4.2 Projects and each Project finally into
4.3 a set of very well established Tasks.
5.- I need to keep records, statistics and graphs of all the time and resources spent and invested for each step or task.
6.- I need to keep all these in a single application that allow easy follow up, create, edit of all steps in time back and forth.
7.- An intuitive Search Engine that allow me to search anything inside these planning steps.
8.- Control Points/Alarms to show if planning is in a successful road towards the Goal or it has been deviated from the targets.
9.- The magic: effective, intuitive, easy, fast and powerful without being bloated.

My questions:
a. Of all this sequence, what can be accomplished with Tasktop?
b. How Tasktop can be compared with Concepts tools like: Concept Draw or Compendium?
c. If no tools exist to do this, is possible to achieve this with a minimum and compatible set of tools?, which ones?

Thanks a lot
Best regards
José

Second question: what about the licensing concept? If I want to use both the Linux and Windows versions, do I have to buy an additional license?

Cheers
Alexander

Thanks for pointing this problem out. We have fixed the download so please try to download Tasktop for Linux again.