Do not lose the opportunity to give more feature to the customers. "One app to rule them all", right? that include GTD based app users.
For example: INBOX is a good place to put all the tasks that I have no time to analyze to which projet/list I must add to.
Today Clickup obliges me to add tasks to a specific list, this is not the freedom that I am looking for.
@Zeb Inbox is great and works good. However, current implementation is rather mix of 'real' inbox and Today view. Is it possible to separate them. So tasks planned for Today had own tab on the left, just above Next. And Inbox then will work as a great place to gather ideas, like a GTD inbox. So I can then review all those tasks, schedule them and move to appropriate lists
@Rostyslav Bachyk: I certainly understand and appreciate all of the GTD fans, this is the MVP of Inbox, some more stuff is coming. But at the same time, we want to release this to more people and get feedback outside of the GTD scope. We have a couple thousand teams in the BETA right now, I want to have about 10k teams there before we make a decision based on the data and surveys for Inbox.
@Zeb: I can't wait to receive a new survey link in my e-mail inbox! :)
@Zeb:
Hi Zeb,
The problem of differentiating between Inbox and Focus-Area can be solved by below Simple solution -
1. Give option to make a space 'Default'
2. Give the option to make a Folder and a List 'Default' under EACH space.
3. While adding a Task,
3.1. When User leaves both space and List - empty -
Then task will go to the Default Space's -> Default Folder's ->Default List
3.2. When user selects space but leaves the list name empty -
Then Task will go to the Selected Space's -> Default Folder's -> Default List
Advantage -
1. Inbox's current implementation can be left as it.
2. Instead of having Single Inbox to gather the tasks - user will have so many options to choose where his tasks should go
PS : I've created a Separate Feature request also for this Proposed solution.
@Zeb: Thank you for the reply. I understand this is still MVP and product is constantly developing. Another essential thing related to inbox is a possibility to add tasks to inbox from mobile app or web version. Will be there update of iOS app when Clickup 2.0 will go live in July?
@Rostyslav Bachyk: Previously the new mobile app has been targeted towards end of summer, but they are making more progress, so it may be sooner. However, the idea was to have an (almost) complete feature parity.
@Zeb: It would even better/fantastic if one could setup their own Today view. I'm currently also experimenting with the Amazing Marvin app, and there you can just setup your own Today view according whatever Task Management principle one wants to use, by defining your own Smart Lists. The thing is that when the software decides for the user how the view should look, you will never be able to make everyone happy. Why not just have us create our own views/filters and have those assigned to a custom button in the Today view, just like you have the predefined buttons 'Inbox', 'Next', 'Done' etc.? This is then also a way to have your most important views/filters in a single screen instead of having them float around the different projects and lists. This gives us the opportunity to organize our daily workflow and Today view in the way we like it and works best for each individual. Don't try to create the perfect software, because it is only perfect in the view of some of the users. Users are smart enough to setup their own workflow and views, which is best for them.
@Pascal Zweipfenning: wow, thanks for pointing amazing marving, didn't know about it and I think that Clickup could see and get inpired by their "execution centric" aproach. Maybe an integration?
@Matias: Yes, Amazing Marvin really is amazing. I'm really struggling on choosing between Clickup and Amazing Marvin.
@Zeb: an Inbox is not strictly a GTD concept. Anyone receiving tasks needs a separate Inbox. Which ever method you use to empty that Inbox and prioritize your taskd/projects is up to you. GTD is just one of those methods for handling all those tasks in a structured way.
@Zeb: Hello Zeb, you wrote: "...we want to release this to more people and get feedback outside of the GTD scope..."
Yes its good to improve and give to INBOX more functionality.
Do not lose the opportunity to give more feature to customers. "One app to rule them all", right? that include GTD based app users...
For example: INBOX is a good place to put all the tasks that I have no time to analyze to which projet/list I must add.
Today Clickup obliges me to add tasks to a specific list, this is not the freedom that I am looking for.
@Daniel Filimonczuk: If we allowed you to add descriptions to reminders, would that do the trick for you? Trying to understand why a reminder doesn't work for that use case?
@Zeb: I don't know about @Daniel Filimonczuk, but as for me, I would really welcome descriptions for reminders - I am using these precisely as listless tasks to be analyzed in the future - and while I mostly do not need attachments, the description field I always miss...
@Zeb LOVE the new inbox, has anyone asked for assigned comments (to you) to be shown there as well? I know being able to see assigned comments (only to you) has been asked in other threads.
@Ken Yeung: Yep, it's actually planned for the next version of Inbox! Should be the end of Summer
@Zeb: yes, as a beta user, Inbox would be GREAT for assigned comments
@Caleb Forbes: Indeed, I am a single user, but as I use comments to track my actions and/or info needed (e. g. links to important pieces of info), the Inbox inclusion will actually give me a reason to assign the selected ones to myself, so that I cannot forget about them, especially when further research or action is needed.
@Zeb: still on track for this?
@Ken Yeung: Yep
I'd love to be able to decide which spaces show up in the inbox. Maybe using a toggle of sorts. I like to have both my private life and my biz life in one workspace, but when I'm working, I don't want to see my private stuff in the inbox and vice versa.
I also have a space that I use for templates and other document that will not get a due date, so I don't want and need those show up in the unscheduled section of the Inbox. By turning that space off, I don't have to.
@Zeb How does the new Inbox work in the 'Me' view? When I create a new list from a template, holding 50 tasks, without any due date, do they appear in my Inbox? Does the Inbox hold any unscheduled task? If so, the Inbox would be useless to me. I will have a Inbox with 500 tasks... The Inbox should only hold new tasks for whci have not decided yet, what to do with, when to do them, to which project they belong etc.
@Pascal Zweipfenning: There is a special Unscheduled section. I think that you cannot have a listless task anyway, the thing that is non-list, is reminders (and therefore these are even available across all workspaces). Also, see: https://docs.clickup.com/clickup-2-0/inbox
@Jan Dvořák: Thanks, the 'Unscheduled' tab worries me, as any non-scheduled task will end up there. That will be just a list of all open task without due date. I have templates with lists of tasks to be completed in the order they appear in the list. Most (95%) of my tasks do not have a due date. I just complete them one after the other. Moreover you need an Inbox to drop a new task which is not assigned to any list, project, date, person tag etc. An Inbox is as the word says a box where new tasks come in. Next you review and decide what you want to do with them, put them on the applicable project, list, assign a due date of required etc.
@Pascal Zweipfenning: I will probably use reminders for that, as they are convertable into tasks. In my opinion, Focus would be a better name for this, but still love the idea. And no, I am not on beta, so I am just guessing.
@Zeb lnbox is looking great from what I see in the 2.0 docs! Would be great if the tasks also display Project Name > List Name. Our team uses templated lists over and over so the task titles are often repeated and don't give enough context. List names and project names are a must.
@Marcus Corona: Got it, we'll get that added as an option!
@Zeb: That would be awesome
@Zeb: Yes, also agree with this - opening every task just to see what the parent task or list name is will very quickly become annoying
As I saw in the clickup 2.0 documents, is not a real GTD Inbox. But I would like you to include the tray feature in the inbox as shown in 2.0 release. The tray is great but very difficult to view as is implemented now. I love the reminder feature in 2.0
This would be an incredibly useful update. Hope you guys will release it soon.
@Zeb,
Alongwith Inbox, are we going to have other GTD components too - esp, "Today, Next, Scheduled, Someday, Waiting for, Reference", like provided in www.getitdoneapp.com
Hey guys, I reviewed Hive prior to my move to Clickup, and practically the only feature they had that you guys don't is the ability to enter a task with no project. This is very innovative and actually I think a differentiator.
My suggestion is for the feature to look like this:
- When entering a task, you can simple enter the title, and are required to enter nothing more.
- The task then goes to a parking lot within Clickup
- Before being transitioned to any subsequent status, Clickup would require the project/list to be added.
This could all be governed with Settings: If a team wants to allow a task to be entered with no project, and what is required upon transitioning - perhaps assignee as well as project/list?
One reason for this is Clickup, as with other systems like Jira, requires a bit of thought when entering a task quickly to figure out not only the project, but the list. You a have a plethora of market-leading "quick add" tools like the Chrome browser, app, etc. I think you could really differential ClickUp's status agains the Todoists/Things, even Google Tasks if you allowed for a simple quick entry of just the task name. I find that I will jot down stuff during meetings, on phone calls, etc. to google tasks or Todoist that I would have otherwise put in my Clickup, but I couldn't concentrate quickly enough, or I didn't have the time, to get through the whole project/list selection process.
Thanks guys for taking this under consideration!