Format of Task-Levels

another thing might be to allow to define the dimension of the shifting. I use a big screen and would like to make the tree broader to visually catch the levels faster.

Hi Karlheinz, Got it. 😃

Hi dear Crystal, Subprojects sounds fantastic. About the colours I am not that enthusiastic at all, because it would affect the appearance and distract. But have the first level one ore two points bigger or bold would help to find its way faster without being too flashy.

Hi Karlheinz, I see your point. We shall take it into consideration. 😃

Hi Emeste, We love that you are getting over-excited here! 😃 Perhaps you can provide us with a mockup screenshot of your idea (aka a thin colored stripe)? It would help us understand better what you have in mind. Thanks!

I may be wrong, but isn't this solved by mark-down? (quire.io/blog/p/Our-Very-Own-Markdown.html)

Hi Crystal, as much as I do agree with Karlheinz that coloured (whole text/name of the task) tasks could become quite messy, I think a variant of that concept could be worth considering. What if in front of each task name there were a thin (eg. 4 mm) stripe that could be coloured? By default it would be transparent but there would be a possibility to select a colour (eg. from the same palette that you provide when selecting placeholder "avatar" icons with the user's initials). Personally I would be against using varying intensities of the parent-task colour as that could prove quite difficult to achieve with many-levels-deep task structures. IMHO it would be enough if all the child tasks had the same colour as the highest-level parent task that had a colour selected.

Plus (and I'm referencing one of my other comments here 😃 ), if you decide to follow the idea of managing dependencies by adding the preceding task ID to the task attributes, the colour stripe of such dependent tasks could be double-coloured! (I know, I know... I'm getting over-excited here 😂 )

Cheers!

Hi Crystal, regarding the "thin, coloured stripe" thingy - I saw your iPad app yesterday and at least the highest-level tasks have the kind of coloured, vertical stripe on their left border. That's what I had in mind, although maybe slightly wider, when presented on a PC screen. The little triangles that expand subtask trees could then follow the same colour as their parent tasks, in order to retain consistency. Cheers!

Hi Karlheinz and Emeste, Yes, currently the Markdown is for styling text in task description and comments only. We have been thinking about another idea: giving a different color to each task and its subtasks. For example, a task can be of ‘red’ and its subtask can be of darker ‘red’ and so on so forth. So the deeper the level is, the darker the red. What do you think? And I think I have told @karlheinz.gerster about this, you will be able to add ‘subprojects’ in a project. They can serve as your first level of all tasks that are bigger (and bold).

Hi Emeste, I think you meant like the “priority” color bar. 😃

Hi Emeste, I just tried, but it seems to only work in comments like this one. Not in title fields. And there also I would need to do it all the time by hand = hardcoding. I thougth of a choice in the "settings" and the task tree would be formated at once and automatic for the future. But thanks for the answer.

Concerning subprojects - you should make it possible to right click on a task(tree) and then offer the option to make it a separator within the tasks (middle row) or make it a subproject. Means main task name appears in the left row unter the project as an indented subproject with its subtasks listed in the middle row. Of course it would be necessary to undo this as easily again. That would be AWESOME.

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