Checkvist story

Feature preview: assign tasks

From the day one, Checkvist was a tool for collaborative work. When we added support for tags, teams started using them to assign tasks to different people. But assigning requires slightly more than just tagging:

• the assignee must immediately know when a task is assigned to him
• the assignee must be automatically notified about changes in the task made by others

The feature is already available on our beta server:

• Use smart syntax (prefix @) to assign a task to a person who’s also on the list
• Invoke the “assign” window by typing ae on the selected list item
• Remove assignee with the ca shortcut
• Filter current list or search in all lists for tasks assigned to a given person (@username syntax, code completion should work)
• The assignee will receive an email notification after a task has been assigned to him and each time “his” task has been changed by another person.

Besides, we reworked and unified the behaviour of all related “task add-ons”: tags, assignees, and due dates. Now clicking a tag or a due date label filters current list. If you want to color a tag or change due date, you can do it either by editing a task using smart syntax or invoke related dialog window. Shortcuts have not changed: dd for Due Date, tt for Tags, ae for AssignE. And you can use universal aa shortcut to invoke Actions menu.

We also plan to rework list notifications. Instead of single daily digest option, you’ll be able to specify whether you want to receive the daily digest or ongoing notifications, sent as soon as something’s got changed in the list.

When this feature goes live on the main server, we are going to make it available for PRO users only. PRO users will assign tasks, but all assignees will receive the related notifications regardless plan they use.