Upcoming stuff for Taskerrific

As you’ve doubtlessly realized by now, there wasn’t an update this past weekend to Taskerrific. It doesn’t look like there’s going to be one this weekend, either. In lieu of awesome new features, though, let me tell you about those in the works. These are just the big-ticket items, by the way… For more on what’s in store for Taskerrific, check our UserVoice forum, or my personal Taskerrific project on the service itself.

Currently, I’m working on big changes to how tasks are assigned. This is work that breaks quite a few other things, annoyingly enough, which is why there’s not been any updates for a while. But when it’s said and done, you’ll be able to change assigned tasks without it weirding out the person who assigned it to you originally. Right now, it looks like the work on that should be done in about a week’s time.

Once that’s taken care of, the next big thing on the radar is team support. Teams make it easier for a group of users to keep organized and work together on projects. Two types of teams will be available: public teams, which anyone can join, and private teams, which will be a premium feature for groups who are interested in using Taskerrific in the workplace.

The other big-ticket item is providing an API for Taskerrific, with the intention of making it easy to put Taskerrific to use in other web applications, personal information managers, and mobile phones. (In fact, I’m already planning a sexy little Windows Mobile app for the service.) One of the goals for Taskerrific is to be usable anywhere you can connect to the internet, whether traditionally or via mobile. After all, what good is a task list you can’t carry with you?

I plan to take Taskerrific out of private beta once team support is in place. While the API is important, it’s not exactly do-or-die for the feature set the way teams are intended to be, so I can work on it while everyone jumps on board.

Next blog post, I’ll talk about non-technical issues that are coming up for Taskerrific. (On that note, by the way, please donate!)