Thanks for getting in touch and for your excellent suggestions. We are always counting “votes” for new features.

Regarding your questions -

1. This is currently not possible, but we will likely add this in the future. It would probably require us to create an Outlook add-on.

2. Emailing multiple tasks at once is not yet supported, but we might add it in one of the future releases, especially if more customers request it.

Cheers,
Jiri

1. Would it be possible to have a quick key to turn an outlook email including its attachement into a task. I personally would prefer this to the drag and drop now available.

2. Would it be possible to select a number of tasks to email at the same time.

Regards
Mark

I am glad that you like Swift To-Do List! It’s not your fault that you like it, you are not alone :-)

Regarding your suggestions –

One of the upcoming updates will allow you to tie a view mode to a filter. So switching to a particular filter could also switch the view mode at the same time.

Changing the columns is also something that we are contemplating, mainly on per-to-do list basis. So different lists will be able to have different columns.

A nice feature would be to be able to save the current view (filters/sort columns + sort directions/displayed columns/order of the columns) for quick access. So one can have different views for different situations and quickly switch between them. In my case i prefer other task-infos during meetings as when working on tasks.

I’m currently evaluating swift to-do list and so far it seems to be the best tool out there on windows.

Couldn’t agree more. STDL has always been easy to use and I for one would like it to stay that way. That’s not to say new features shouldn’t be added, only that the ease-of-use design criterion should dominate.

Thanks for your kind words and support!

Yes, we will definitely add logging into time tracking.

This is already available (Currently in Beta): Companion web-based application for desktop, and companion web-based application for Android, iPhone, iPad and other devices. It’s in beta. If you want to try it, use File – Advanced – Enable Beta Features. That will display a new Sync menu. Read the Sync guide available from the Sync menu to get started.

I note also that you are looking at adding some team functionality. You are almost at the level of “the perfect program” for my uses.

Cheers
Glenn

This is a brilliant program. There is nothing on the net that competes.

Making it web based (or from my android phone) would also be incredibly useful.

It’s great to hear from you again. Thanks for your suggestion of auto-hiding left panel. No one else has requested this yet, but we will certainly keep it in mind.

Cheers,
Jiri

Love the calendar and overall tasks due today view.

These are just ideas where I’ve kind of looked for something that would be nice to add, but I don’t have a full understanding of how complicated any of it would be. I didn’t write your software. You are the one who decides what makes sense, and I know whatever you add or remove from it will be a welcome change.

Thank you for helping me get organized at work and home!

We already plan to make it possible to assign tasks to multiple persons at the same time, which is probably more flexible than having a group. But the group idea is interesting.

We plan to add better team functionality in the future, which will include per to-do list permissions, so to-do lists will have “owners” etc.

Hyperlinks for tasks/to-do lists are most likely going to happen, as that could be a really useful feature.

The two-line tasks displaying could be made configurable, maybe even to show more lines if needed. It’s just a question of putting it nicely in Options, so I will think about that.

The New Tasks tabs is missing Type and Context, because as of now, Swift To-Do List is using the last used Type or last used Context for new tasks as the default value. However, we will definitely make this configurable, probably very soon (a week or so).

Having custom settings for different to-do list is also something that we would like to do, but that will require far more effort. We definitely plan to make it possible to have separate columns settings for specific to-do lists, etc.

First, we would like to implement some sort of time-log, so if you bill your time, you can have an overview of when you were working on the task exactly. I think that is the most important improvement of time tracking that we can do next.

After that, we can look into this possibility. The program already keeps an eye on opened embedded attachments, so it can ask you if you want to update (re-embed) them once you are done with editing the filters.

Also, you can regularly prune the Done tasks into the Archive using the Clean Tasks feature.

Applying multiple filters at the same time is technically possible, so it’s mainly a question of good design that wouldn’t confuse less demanding customers and wouldn’t make the program more complex. I will think about it.

And it would be cool to have groups of people that you could assign a task to. And then have the program email everyone in the group? And assigned to filters could be set to match like…
Filter by Assigned to: Person B
And Person B is in Group A.
So any tasks assigned to Group A could be shown or not based on settings.

It would be nice to have an option for certain tasks to ignore filters. And if you had multiple filters, options for which to ignore. Let’s say you have 1 task you need to keep up on screen to remind you about it no matter what else you may be looking at, set that task to ignore all filters.

Also, if you could have it always show regardless of chosen to-do list. That may be an option of use to some.

And if you could have To-Do lists filtered out, this would be a handy change. Most to-do lists you might say, No filtering: I always want to see this list. But for filtering, it would mean you would need more properties for the lists, such as Importance, Context, Date of newest task, Date of oldest Task, Number of Tasks, You could assign an entire list to an individual. Like if someone else was taking over a project, you’d assign the whole list to them, instead of each task one by one. This would allow you to filter out some lesser used lists while focusing on one major list. Or tell it to show Notes Only/To-Do Lists Only.

Another cool idea would be to have hyperlinks to another task in the notes for a task. Just a hyperlink that would change the view to the list that task is in and highlight that task to show you the notes/details for it.

And maybe an option to disable/enable the Ultimate-edition feature for two-line task names? For all Tasks or individual tasks?

The installer should ask where to install Swift To-Do List. I assume it installs in Application Data to make it where Admin Rights are not needed? But I have had issues with the program being located there, and have to move it to program files upon each update.

The Options under New Task Default Values are severely limited. Only five properties can be set, and in the Pro/Ultimate Edition, there are many more properties available. It would also be nice if there was a way to set default values based on what list the task is being put into.
As in…
List for personal -> Low Priority, Assigned to Me, No Due Date, etc.
List for work -> High Priority, Assigned to You, Due Tomorrow, etc.

If there was a way to Automatically start/End/Pause Time tracking for a task based on a certain action/certain program run/certain file opened, that would be pretty cool.

Like, I’m working on project A which is done in Powerpoint, and this project is the only reason I’d be using powerpoint, so I set it so that if Powerpoint is running, time is being tracked for the Task: Work on Project A.

Or if it could detect when you opened a certain file, track the time that the file being accessed?? Maybe you have that file as an attachment or you’ve got a link in the notes/attachments for the Task. When you open those attachments or links, it could start Time Tracking and stop it automatically upon closing the web browser/program the file was opened in??

Just some ideas. Not sure how possible/worthwhile any of that would be, but they’re just things where I keep saying “Why doesn’t it do this?” The software is amazing with or without these features, but these would be some nice additions.

Let’s say I always want to filter by Undone Only, but sometimes, I want to filter by another property, like Assigned to Me, Due Today, High Priority, etc.

I’d have to setup all of my filters to include Undone Only along with the other property. Then when I need to look back at a task that is done, I have to set it to No Filtering or have another copy of all of my filters.
The Filter shortcut keys could work only for Filter 1, or new shortcuts could be added if possible.
If I could have multiple filters at once, I could set the Undone Only on Filter 2, then change through my commonly changed filters on Filter 1. Then when I need to look at Done Tickets, change filter 2, then filter the tickets further using Filter 1.

I do have 1 feature request. I would like to be able to apply multiple filters at once. I do realize I can create filters that have more than one condition, but this is not the best way to have filter options like…
Assigned to: Me, Due: Today
Assigned to: Me, Due: Tomorrow
Assigned to: Me, Undone Only
Assigned to: Me, Priority: High
Assigned to: Me, Priority: Low
Assigned to: Me, Type: Major Task
Assigned to: You, Due: Today
Assigned to: You, Due: Tomorrow
Assigned to: You, Undone Only
Assigned to: You, Priority: High
Assigned to: You, Priority: Low
Assigned to: You, Type: Major Task

With the above filters, if I could select two at a time, it would bring me from 12 filters to 7. It would further reduce the amount of different filters, if you had to filter them by three or four properties. Although, the way it works now should not be abandoned, since if I wanted to quickly switch from one filter to another, I’d have to first disable the current filter. It would be nice to be able to apply a second or third filter at the same time and there even appears to be room on the Main Toolbar for a second or third filter dropdown. These could have an option to hide/show for people who didn’t want to use them. You would keep the same method of filtering with one box, but have the option for a second or third.