Hey folks,we’re glad to announce full support for Safari 3 and Firefox 2 under os x. If you’ve used PostTask with Firefox under os x you probably noticed that the time picker was acting all weird when using the backspace key - this is fixed now. For Safari we had to tweak our CSS a tiny bit and also remove some bad JS, but its running like a charm now.What’s next? Well one of us is getting an iPhone next week … so lets see what happens with that. We’re also working hard on implementing things like the much demanded ability to save notes, categorize tasks and some other new features to boost your productivity. Stay tuned. 

Hey folks,

we just tweaked the behavior of the time picker a bit. If you haven’t noticed already, so far it has been behaving like this: If you had a 1h task with 50% progress  and you changed the time to 2h then the progress would automatically go to 25% because PostTask assumes you want to add more time to the task. Usually that is exactly what one would want the application to do. However, if you mark a 1h task as done, but it ended up taking you 1:15h, then this behavior gets into your way as it resets the progress from 100% to 80% and you have to manually adjust the progress again.

Not anymore! If you know hold down the “Alt” key while clicking on the time of a task, it will make no adjustments to the tasks progress. Which means no more double editing for you!

We hope some of you will enjoy it : )

Hey folks,

we just fixed a weird bug that would cause tasks to double in size after a drag & drop to a different day. ‘Do Homework’ would turn into ‘Do HomeworkDo Homework’ - no good. Turns out this was a little left-over from the recent switch to jQuery UI but nothing serious.

Meanwhile Tim and I are working hard on getting automated billing working so we can finally launch and move on to implement more fun features. If you’re interested in pricing: We’re aiming at a monthly fee of $5 for the application as it is right now, and newly developed functionality would get packaged with more expensive plans. If you have any thoughts about this, feel free to comment : ).

Hey folks,

lately we’ve been toying around with how we could add new features to the application in the future without destroying its nice and light-weight interface. Here is how we could imagine this to work:

The idea is to add some “tabs” below the current task. They would only show up if they are actually used, but you could also configure certain “tabs” to be always visible. If a task is using no tabs yet, you could simply add one by using a little drop-down menu that activates when you hover it and which is represented by a little icon right next to the text (not shown in this picture).

Please let us know what you think about this and what you’re ideas about adding new features are!

Thanks!

Hey guys,

until now there was a problem with the blog running under http://posttask.com instead of http://www.posttask.com, which resulted in it being unable to track your login state. This means that you would still see the top navigation links as if you were logged in, although you weren’t.

It has now been fixed. Please enjoy!

Hey folks,

we just wanted to let you know that we’ve done some updates to our underlaying JS architecture:

• We are now using the latest version of jQuery (1.2.1)
• We are now using jQuery UI instead of the Interface library.
• As of now we’ve reduced the number of HTTP requests made per page refresh to about 50%. This was made possible by adding a packaging script that throws all our common JS includes into one file when needed.

So far it looks like all the improvements are working smoothly, but please let us know if you experience any problems so we can fix them.

Also, when you hover over the little arrow that you can use for switching to the next week, you now get a date picker drop down where you can easily jump to any day into the future!