Hey folks!
We, that is Felix and Tim, are happy to announce that today the official PostTask Beta Test is launched. Around 50 business colleagues and friends of ours will test the first semi-public version of PostTask to its knees. PostTask is our most radical experiment yet - and our very first experiment together. It affected everything we did – the way we ate, talked, dressed, thought and showered. Now it’s finally there - the beta test, which will last one to two weeks before the final first version goes live.
Now the reason you must be here is to fetch some information about it. So here is a little introduction to get you going about what PostTask is and what it can do for you to make you more productive. The main idea behind it is to make a list of all your tasks for a certain day and assign each one of them an amount of time that you are willing to spend on it. The application will help you stay on top of what progress has been made on each one of them and will show you how much time you have got left for a day. It will also show you how much time you have already spent on working on your tasks for that given day.
You can of course change task descriptions, the amount of progress already made and the day you want to complete the task very easily. The indicators about how much worktime is left for the day will automatically update.
The application is based on Ajax requests (for users that have javascript enabled), which makes it very responsive to your actions. There are also a few nice gimmicks put into it - for example if you decide to move a task to another date you can do so by simply drag / dropping it into a mini calendar.
One drawback as of now is that the javascript features will not work fully in IE6 / 7 and Safari. Support for these browsers will be included very soon. However, the application is still usable with these browsers, it’s just that its full power can only be revealed via Mozilla Firefox and Co.
At the moment PostTask focuses on simplicity and ease of use. However, based on feedback we get by our beta testers and our customers when the app is launched, we will include more sophisticated features.
Thanks for stopping by and looking at our application. Have fun with it and ensure to give us lots of feedback, so we can make this a very cool task management application for day-to-day usage.