I'm Moving On From Developing Cleverness To-Do List

  • Plugin Author Cindy Kendrick

    (@elusivelight)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I started working on Cleverness To-Do List around 5 years ago. I didn’t write the original plugin but I adopted it to make it work again in WordPress 2.7.

    Then I grew the plugin far beyond it’s original capabilities. I’ve added many features, but there have been many I couldn’t add because of the underlying architecture of the plugin.

    I could stick with Cleverness To-Do List, and redo the plugin yet again, but I want to move forward and go beyond just to-do lists. You use it for so many different things already and I want to move the plugin in a direction to reflect that.

    Sarah Pressler and I are creating OptimaList, a task management plugin. The main plugin will be free and there will be some free add-ons, but the focus will be on paid add-ons. All of the features of Cleverness To-Do List will make it into OptimaList, but some will be in paid add-ons.

    I would love nothing more than to continue providing everything for free, but I am not independently wealthy and life requires money. I’ve received donations over the years and I thank you all who have donated. Everything has been much appreciated.

    I hope to have OptimaList and some add-ons out by the end of the summer. But that depends on how much client work I will have to take on. Donations I receive towards OptimaList will help make the plugin happen sooner than later. Plus you get some benefits if you donate!

    I can tell you now that the add-on to convert Cleverness To-Do List items to OptimaList will be free. The Master list view type will be a paid add-on. There’s so many ways it can be improved. I’m really excited about this!

    I won’t be abandoning Cleverness To-Do List completely. I will make sure that it works in future versions of WordPress and that any security bugs are fixed.

    Thank you for using Cleverness To-Do List and I hope you’ll follow me to OptimaList.

    If you have any suggestions for features or add-ons, please reply to this thread or email me. I’ll be considering all reasonable requests.

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  • serendpt

    (@serenine)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Thank you so much for making Cleverness To-Do List!
    I just gave it a whirl today and found it useful for jotting down to-dos and sharing it with the client via the dashboard.

    Feature requests for CTDL or OptimaList:
    1. A space for followup comments/notes (threaded?) by admin and assigned.
    2. Tagging. At times would like to cc the client/Editor role on a task but not necessarily assign them a task.
    3. File attachments. When the client sends me a task, it usually involves adding/updating a file. Would be nice to grab that link from the request (right-click copy link) or find the link in the media library.
    4. Drag n drop reordering of to-do items

    Hope the requests are not too far off-course 🙂

    Thank you for listening.

    Plugin Author Cindy Kendrick

    (@elusivelight)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks!

    I already have all but tagging on my list of features I’d like to add. Tagging is a great idea though, I’m adding it to my list!

    serendpt

    (@serenine)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Great. Thanks, Cindy! Just rang the donation register 🙂
    Look forward to beta testing OptimaList.

    The Post Planner plugin looks awesome and useful! Thank you.

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