Task Coach 0.72.8

Task Coach 0.72.8 offers you a tool which can be used to manage personal tasks and to - do lists. It grew out of a frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things to - do consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.

Major Features:

1.  Creating, editing, and deleting tasks and subtasks.
2. Tasks have a subject, description, priority, start date, due date, a completion date and an optional reminder. Tasks can recur on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
3. Tasks can be viewed as a list or as a tree.
4. Tasks can be sorted by all task attributes, e.g. subject, budget, budget left, due date, etc.
5. Several filters to e.g. hide completed tasks or view only tasks that are due today.
6. Tasks can be created by dragging an e-mail message from Outlook or Thunderbird onto a task viewer.
7. Attachments can be added to tasks, notes, and categories by dragging and dropping files, e-mail messages from Outlook or Thunderbird, or URL's onto a task, note or category.
8. Task status depends on its subtask and vice versa. E.g. if you mark the last uncompleted subtask as completed, the parent task is automatically marked as completed too.
9. Tasks and notes can be assigned to user-defined categories.
10. Settings are persistent and saved automatically. The last opened file is loaded automatically when starting Task Coach.
11. Tracking time spent on tasks. Tasks can have a budget. Time spent can be viewed by individual effort period, by day, by week, and by month.
12. The Task Coach file format (.tsk) is XML.
13. Tasks, notes, effort, and categories can be exported to HTML and CSV (Comma separated format). Effort can be exported to iCalendar/ICS format as well.
14. Tasks, effort, notes, and categories can be printed. When printing, Task Coach prints the information that is visible in the current view, including any filters and sort order.
15. Task Coach can be run from a removable medium.
16. Tasks and notes can be synchronized via a Funambol server such as ScheduleWorld.

 Enhancements:

1. Bugs fixed:
   
   • Drag and drop from Thunderbird would not work on Debian-derived distributions. (2790274)
   • Work around a bug in wxPython 2.8.9.2 on Mac OS X that prevented dialogs to be opened for items that have a color set. (2789977)
   • Draw check boxes instead of black squares in the category viewer on Windows XP and Vista with the classic theme.
   • The background of check boxes were corrupted under Linux.
   • Double clicking an item in a specific column wouldn't select the appropriate tab in the dialog. (2791100)
   • Reduce flickering when tracking effort for a task.
   • Opening a task file with e-mail attachments not specifying their encoding on a different system than the one the task file was created could fail.
   • Couldn't add effort to a freshly created task.
2. Feature added: Use the settings for effort dialog start and stop times for the reminder drop down as well. (2792160)
   
3. Dependency changed: Task Coach now at least needs wxPython 2.8.9.2-unicode. Since the Windows installer and the Mac OS X dmg package have wxPython included, this only affects users of the RPM, Debian, and source distributions.
   

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