Feature Request 2: Add Tasks to Calendar

Seeing my Tasks in my Calendar is a dream I've had for quite some time. I manage my time probably more with Tasks than Appointments.

With Pocket Informant on my Pocket PC I am able to do this, and Task Management has become vital in my own personal and professional time and productivity management. I can also assign priorities to my Tasks, as well as create hierarchies - Parent and child Tasks.

This same feature has never been available in Outlook, however, until very recently. Agendus for Windows Outlook Edition, which acts as a COM add-in to Outlook, allows showing Tasks in the Outlook calendar. While not supporting Pocket Informant's Priority designations, Agendus Outlook Edition does offer a grid prioritization which mirrors David Allen's "Getting Things Done" Task Management protocol.

Viewing my Tasks with priorities, start dates, and due dates on my calendar has made my personal and professional time and productivity management much more powerful.

The ability to see this same coordination of Appointments and Tasks in Plaxo would, in my opinion, make Plaxo perfect - completely unrivaled in its field. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

I definitely agree with J-Mac on this one, but I won’t get as technical with examples though. There are some tasks that can’t be set at a certain time of day, but you still plan to complete that task on that certain day.

For instance, every 27th of the month I send a check in for rent. I don’t plan to send the check at 11:00am or 6:30pm. I just plan to send it some time that day. I would use the “All-day” feature, but it isn’t quite the same. There isn’t a check box that easily completes the job. And tasks are generally just quick notes/reminders that you can enter a sentence, assign a date and hit enter (unlike setting events, with 20+ options).

Placing the tasks at the top of the calendar would be preferred, as those are usually the first things that need to be completed or reminded of. Reoccuring tasks would be handy as well (as in the case of the check every month).

And like J-Mac said, no other calendar seems to incorporate this feature and would really make Plaxo stand out.