I’ve been looking for solutions to two problems that must be quite common for people working in virtual teams

• Managing sprawling lists of todos across many projects
• Keeping track of where all my time goes to make sure I’m spending it on things that are important

You’d think there must be a plethora of great simple tools that make this easier. I’ve looked (and have been looking) but the tools are either too complex (insert name of any task management app of your choice) or too simple (teuxdeux).

Please someone build this. I’ll beta-test and help spread the word. Here is the minimum Viable Product

A task has the following fields

• Short description (this covers name, title, etc.)
• Time to complete (how long I think it will take, or how long it ended up taking me)
• Completed (checkbox to show what’s done and what still needs doing)
• Tags (for everything else: grouping by project, types of tasks, priority, deadlines, etc.)

Only one view -> Dashboard (toggle Current / History)

• Toggle between

• All the tasks that are not complete yet

• All the tasks that have been completed

• I can order/filter them by any of the above fields
• I can add/edit/delete tasks

Cross-platform

• I’d prefer to run it as a desktop application, but web-app would also be fine
• And there is no way around mobile support, so at some point it’ll need an IOS and Android version (good way to make money and keep the desktop/web-app free)

Posted on October 19, 2011