Important: The goals feature will be removed in 2-3 days. Please make sure to save whatever data you need.

Hey folks,

after some internal discussions we came to the conclusion that we didn’t like the way goals are currently implemented / that we can do better.

In the next ~2-3 days we are therefor going to remove them from PostTask.com and replace them with something new called “Ideals”.

If you’re familiar with Benjamin Franklin’s 13 virtues then this should make sense right to you right away. Basically the idea is to list all ideals / virtues you are interested in pursuing and to rate your current state on a scale from 1-5 (we got one of them nifty star rating pickers for that). PostTask.com will then sort your list, always showing you the ideals you need to work on most first. So from time to time you can then look at your list and decide what you need to work on more or where you made progress or had fallbacks. Whenever you change your rating on an ideal, PostTask.com will keep history of it so in a later version we’ll be able to offer you reports on the progress of your personal development over time.

If you have problems thinking of ideals you want to follow other then your typical new years resolution “loose weight”, “quit smoking”, etc. then check out this post by Steve Pavlina on the topic.

“What about actual goals, the stuff that can actually be accomplished once and forever?” you might ask. Well fear not, we are also working on a new version of what will most likely be called “Goals” again and that connects directly with the time tracking and tasks of PostTask.com. But we’re currently still doing the mockups for that, so please bear with us for a week or so before we get those done ; ).

Felix & Tim

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 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!

Hi folks,

here is another update. You may have noticed those little dashed underlines in the weekday scroller at the top of your tasklist already. They are indicating that you have already booked a task for that particular day, which might come in handy if you plan ahead.

Also, when you hover over the days, the tooltip will tell you how many tasks you have created already for that day.

The design (dashed underlines) might change and also the weekday scroller is not automatically updated yet when you add / delete a task. This will be implemented soon, though.

Happy tasking all! :]

Update:  Bret pointed out that the new feature was broken and you’d loose your login after closing the browser. This has now been fixed : ). Thanks Bret!

One of the most frequently requested features so far has been to remove the need of having to constantly log in again after your Session expires. Good news: we now have a “Keep me logged in” option on the login form. If you check it then you should stay logged in for ever (by that I mean as long as you keep your Cookies). But be careful, if you’re computer is used by more then one person, then make sure to logout before you leave it.

Hope you enjoy.

Alright folks, amongst with some other bug fixes and small enhancements we’re happy to announce full time zone support! Please go to your “My Account” page and select the time zone you’re in. This will cause the application to know when its midnight for you and move tasks over to the new day. It also enabled proper time display if JavaScript is disabled.

Other improvements include:

• Tasks with the same progress are now also ordered alphabetically
• The birthday field has been removed from the “My Account” page, it has no business there at this point.