What’s new with the site?

We have been working on a new feature after we launched task reordering feature last week. This new feature, called “Vision Board”, will help you visualize your goals and subconciously focus your mind on what you want to accomplish. We are in the final process of testing the new feature across different browsers and operating systems. It should be launched next week.

In addition to that, we’ve also fixed a few minor bugs, related to daily stats area, and in removing recurring task (thanks to Edward for alerting us about this bug).

 We’re always finding ways to improve the site and make the app more useful for people reaching goals. So please don’t hesitate to send us any ideas or suggestion that you may have that could make the site better.

GoalsOnTrack New Feature: Drag-and-drop Task Reordering

We’ve recently launched a cool new feature that allows you to quickly prioritize your tasks on dashboard, simply by drag-n-droping them into the order that you want.

Below is a simple video I created to demonstrate how it looks like:

GoalsOnTrack: recent updates

• New feature: Move tasks between goals.
• Fixed bug in showing “Remove all” link when there is no task shown.
• Fixed bug in displaying different tasks according to “My Task” selection.
• Fixed bug in displaying entry counts for Journal achives.
• Fixed bug when completing task which isn’t found/already removed.
• Fixed the Tasks menu selection bug.
• Minor changes to Home page text and title.
• Added new experimental pricing plan for annual payment.

New feature for removing tasks and improved progress report

We pushed another update to the site today. Now you are able to remove all tasks under a goal, without the need to do it manually. You may find it useful if you accidentally schedule too many recurring tasks and later decide to remove them all.

Another improvement included in this update is the progress report. We’ve changed the chart graph so that now it shows the “accumulative” progress percentages for each day for the given period, as you will have clearer picture of how much progress you’re making by viewing the chart.

Please check out the update about these two items and let us know if you experience any problems.

Maintenance release - 28/9/2009

We deployed a maintenance release to production server last weekend. This release includes a few improvements such as paginations for goals and tasks pages, remembering goal category selection, as well as a few minor fixes, etc.

Several new features are under development right now and will be released in coming weeks.

What’s new with GoalsOnTrack?

We deployed a new release to the production server early this week. Here are the main changes in this release:

1. Added “Stop recurring by” field to the task form - This allows you to create recurring tasks up to a date that you specify.
2. Optimized Tasks page caching mechanism - this should improve the overall load speed espeically if you have many active tasks under many goals. However, please note that every time we do a new deployment, the server cache has to be rebuilt, which means it may seems slower when you first access your Tasks page after the new release, but it should generally loads much faster afterwards.
3. Added pagination to the Tasks page - This includes both active and completed tasks. We’re trying to find way perhaps to seperate them into different pages, as it makes more sense especially when you have many tasks under both categories.
4. Minor cosmetic fixes here and there.

Here is a list of things we’re working on, and hopefully to release soon.

1. Import and Export tasks in iCal format so that you can integrate GOT with Gmail, Mac iCalender etc.
2. Add a “Delete” option to the “re-schedule” menu on Dashboard so that you can quickly remove a task that may not need to be done.
3. Add the function to specify the “Completion Date” when complete a task, so that you mark a task as completed, for any date, not just today.
4. Optimize overall Journal functions

As always, we’re open to any good suggestions that you may have. Please don’t hesitate to let me know your ideas.

Thanks,

Harry

Site updates

Just a quick note to let you know there have been a few minor updates to the application. Also added a “Total” hours on the time usage report. It’d be a convenient way to see how much time you’ve worked on goals each day, week, or month etc.

We’re also working on a few improvements, including a better way to do recurring tasks, ability to remove tasks from dashboard, and a few performance improvement changes, mainly to the tasks page.

Please check back often to see what’s new with the site and also let me know what features or things you think would be useful in the app.

Cheers,
Harry

Upcoming new feature to sync with Outlook

Hi there,

Just a quick update to let you know that we’re working on a new feature that allows you to sync your tasks between GoalsOnTrack and Outlook. As we’ve learned, many users still keep using Outlook as their main task management tool. Now this new feature will make it easy for you to import and export tasks from Outlook, or from GoalsOnTrack to Outlook.

We’re planning to add more support for this kind of data integration with other popular software. Please let me know which tasks/todo list management tools you would like to see GoalsOnTrack  integrate with.

Thanks,
Harry

How to Plan Your Day the Night Before Using “Day Planner”

We’ve recently made a few improvements to the site, to help those who would like to use GoalsOnTrack to make plans for the next day the night before.

How it works is that when you are planning the tasks for the next day, you can schedule them as “Tomorrow” tasks for all your goals. We’ve added a “Tomorrow” accessible from the “My Tasks” navigation on the right on “Dashboard”. Once you’ve planned all the tasks, just go back to “Dashboard” page, and then click “Print Day Planner”.

Now you will have a print-out of what you have scheduled for tomorrow, and when you start next day, you can grab this “planner” sheet and start your day right away, without even having to logon to GoalsOnTrack.

Cheers,
Harry

Hide goals on “Day Planner”, and other features and updates

There has been a new release deployed to production. In this new release, we’ve made a few improvements, fixed some minor bugs, and also added several small features.

On Day Planner sheet, now you are able to hide the goals section, so that only the tasks are shown on the print-out. This is useful if you have many goals and you want to see only the tasks on the sheet.

We’ve also done a few cosmetic fixes to menu icons, progress bar graphics, etc. We are planning to add a few major features in the next month or so, among which, a vision board, and habits tracker will be main functional modules. I will talk more about them later.

In the meanwhile, if you have any suggestions as to what features you would like to see, please don’t hesitate to let me know.

Thanks, and have productive day.

Harry