What’s everyone doing? Get details on user lists and people search
Along with the previously blogged TOS/PP introduction, there’s a few new features that I’ve rolled out today on Taskerrific.
If you use Twitter, do you look through the lists of other users? Or look for new and interesting people through People Search? Certainly, you must have noticed that Twitter doesn’t give you a simple little list of user pictures and names. Well, now Taskerrific brings you detail on a similar level for its People Search and user list pages.
When you look at the list of your followers, followees, or people search results, you’ll notice that the list includes the most recent action of those users. Not only that, but you can follow and unfollow people with one click from those pages. I’d like to think that this helps discovery of other users you may be interested in.
Not only that, but users are now sorted by latest action. That includes the picture lists in the sidebar; at a glance you can see who among your followers and followees have been active recently.
Another change with this update is that you can now see the contacts of other users more easily on their profiles, as well as their current projects. When you visit a profile (say, for example, mine), the sidebar will show you this stuff. To simplify things, the list of your contacts won’t appear any longer, so you don’t have to worry about figuring which is which (which I’ll admit I’ve been confused about a couple times).
The only confusing thing now is the dashboard links; if you’re logged in, the Active, Today’s, and Completed Tasks links still show up. I decided to leave those in so you could quickly jump back to the dashboard, but I’d like to get some feedback about this. As it is, the Home link in the tab bar at the top of the page works well enough to bring you back to the main dashboard. Do you think they should be removed?
The last big change you’ll notice is all about size. You’ve probably found the text box for task descriptions, project descriptions, and note bodies to be a little too constraining. Well, I’ve upped the size of those boxes, so now you should get about 6 lines of text visible at any time. If you think it could still be a bit bigger, let me know — and if you have any jQuery tips for doing it without things going wacky, I want to hear from you, yesterday.
There’s the usual assortment of minor adjustments and fixes thrown in the mix, too. All in all, I think you’ll like the enhancements made in this update. Next time, we’ll get some real help docs thrown in!
