Checkvist story

Share your idea as you see it

Recently I’ve noticed that all our “idea elaboration” lists start with a very simple two level structure of some dozen list items. Sharing a list quickly doubles the numbers (at least). Work on it for a week or so and compare with the initial list. Ha! The structure’s got on the fourth level, notes, colors, tags.

Now the time has come to use collapse/expand diversity together with filters, list numbering, and “hide completed” option to concentrate on the tasks you’re working at. If you want to show your team what exactly they must look at, use the new permalink feature.

List permalink

What’s a permalink? It is a link that keeps the state/place of the item it’s linked to. Before now Checkvist had only permalinks for tasks (view task details - hover over the last edit timestamp to see the link):

The new list permalink allows your co-workers to see the list as you shaped it, filtering out or collapsing items of less priority. You can get it by hovering the list name, then simply copy the URL and send it to your peers.

You can also use this permalink feature to invite new users. Just make sure the “Keep the list’s current state and filter” option is checked in the Share dialog:

This can be useful when calling a meeting (tag the items you want to discuss, filter, send the link to the attendees), delegating some items to a new person, etc.

Print a filtered list

The print view already had some intelligence: collapse/expand, toggle notes visibility, and checkbox visibility options. Now it also supports filter - filter a list out, press the print icon in the toolbar - and print yourself a list of your “daily dos”, a meeting plan, etc.

Don’t close parent task, when all its children are completed

This request collected quite a few votes. We find such behaviour useful as well, so we’ve added a corresponding option to the List Settings on your profile page. When enabled, parent task can be opened even when all its children are closed. But not vice versa - you cannot have a closed parent with opened subtasks.

Other fixes

• “Share list by link” option now allows to share list in the read-only mode (PRO feature)
• “Share list by link” option allows to change the link’s lifetime (you can also make it non-expirable)
• Preview changes you’re going to notify your peers about (opens a new window with changes highlighted):
  
• Print view now remembers the state of “Show/Hide checkboxes”. So if you don’t use checkboxes for printed lists, switch to the “Hide checkboxes” mode once and forever (in that very browser)
• Node collapse/expand controls (arrows) now match color of the node border and are less “loud”.
• Task edit box keeps normal size after you’ve added a large chunk of text via copy-paste.