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

  • Plugin Author Cindy Kendrick

    (@elusivelight)


    9 years, 6 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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  • 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)

    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!

    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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