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Idea: grid-based project planner

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dr_andus:
If there's three things missing, why not just write a plugin to something like Libre-Office Calc?
-TaoPhoenix (October 15, 2014, 07:23 PM)
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Because I don't know how to :)

But also, spreadsheet cells are rather limited for editing and organising text e.g. into a simple hierarchical outline, and don't have checkboxes.

dr_andus:
OK, here is an additional suggestion to make this software a bit more unique: how about making the inside of a cell (the day) behave similarly to the overall grid, by making it a miniature version of the overall system?

So when you click on a cell, it opens and reveals a grid, with a number of rows corresponding to each hour (or half hour or 20 min pomodoro), with the defined end of the day (last task) acting as the red line that is progressively moving up.

The user is then challenged at the end of each unit (hour, half hour, pomodoro) to tick the box to get the task done, or extend it or move it to another unit within the day or to another day or to the graveyard.

Or indeed this could be  a whole new suggestion for a standalone piece of software that just focuses on accomplishing tasks during a single day, following the above system (a single-day version of the original suggestion).

@TaoPhoenix - so while the original suggestion can indeed be managed manually in a spreadsheet, this new one would be more of a hassle to do manually in a spreadsheet every 20 (or 30, 60) min. throughout the day, hence the automation would help.

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