[Design] Task Management - Sub Tasks

[Bill Seitz]

I've copied some of my old project management feature ideas to my 
ProjectFlux page.

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/ProjectFlux

Of course, that was for a centralized ASP service, so multi-person, 
multi-project stuff was pretty easy to deal with. I don't know how a P2P 
infrastructure matches to it...

Sasha Russo wrote:

>I would like to be able to create tasks within a task
>and to update on the status of each task, like in
>project management software.
>
>I use Outlook to manage my tasks, but I find it
>inadequate.  For example, if I have a task about 
>carpeting due by a certain date, and then I have my
>notes on the carpeting details.  I may then add a
>sub-task, such as choose carpeting, then another
>sub-task: prepare office  
>for installation, then another sub-task, inspect the
>installation, then another sub-task, pay bill, etc.
>
>I could create a new task for each subtask, but having
>each sub-task in the main task, makes it easy to keep
>track of all of the task related to carpeting, plus a
>timeline view for the task and sub-task would be
>helpful.  Perhaps I might do the last sub-task first:
>pay the bill.
>
>I could create a new category for carpeting, but the
>category would be short-lived, perhaps three weeks.  I
>also use a Palm OS PDA, and I am restricted to 15
>categories.
>
>The ultimate calendaring app, should have tasks within
>a task, and create new PDA software that would support
>this, perhaps using the pocket pc operating system.
>
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