I am currently trialling GoodTask (MacOS) and am coming up against a few issues. The calendar items as they are are very unclear and it's difficult to pick out the information you need from them quickly for the reasons I set out below. Is there a way of changing how the calendar items appear? I have screenshots but am unable to upload them as I am a new user so hopefully my descriptions make sense.
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I really like board view, as it gives a clear overview of a few days ahead, nicely separated by the boards, and it also allows for tasks to be moved between days easily at the same time so you can see whether your days are too full, and move tasks to less full days. This is one of the the key things I am looking for in a new task app for, so this is great. However, I need the calendar items to be more clearly separated from the tasks in a similar way to the today view. Is there a way to have headings for the calendar and task section to separate them more clearly?
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The calendar items themselves are very difficult to read:
- The time of the event needs to be the header/part of the header - the key thing is the time. At the moment I have six or seven events per day all blending into one. They are unreadable. Two options would be to have the header read say "9am to 9.30am - xxxx event", or even better would be to have the time at the side of the whole item so it would read something like:
" 9am to xxxxxx event
9.30am event location
12am to lunch with mum
1pm xxxxxx restuarant"
1pm to working
7pm
7.30pm to exercise class
9.30pm xxxxx gym"
All day events could look like:
" All day xxxxxxx event
event location"
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The font of the time is also way way too small. I can't read it at all on default. I have increased the font size but this increases the font size of the whole item, which I don't need. I just need the time to be readable. If you adopted one of the above approaches then the font size would be bigger in relation to the rest of the font, if not, the font really needs to be larger in relation to the main body text, or there needs to be an option to just increase the font sixe of just the time.
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Even though I have increased the font size, the font size of the icons has not increased and I can't see what they are. This applies to the task list icons also, they are too small to read.
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On the day view, you don't need "Today" underneath each item. It's adds to the clutter and to the overall issue of the items being hard to read. You know it's today as you are on day view, and the date is at the top. All Day calendar items should say "All Day" rather than today, to more clearly differentiate them them from the timed calendar items. Again this would make them easier to read.
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On the week view, my calendar items appear as one long overwhelming list, they really need to be separated out by day with e title of the date in between each set of dates, and the time needs to be more prominent as noted above.
I;ve looked through settings, and some online help sources, and searched on here, but can't see that the above can be changed. Are there any settings I am missing? If it can't be changed, how do I provide feedback about the above?
Can anyone advise if these same issues persist on the ios app, or is the layout better?