I like using Vikunja for personal stuff, and I love it. It is a little bit painful when using it in groups or for project management. I don’t know if this is a use case for Vikunja, but I assume it right now because there is a Team setting.
Some points I miss to say it could be useful as a small project management tool also:
Milestones: A date on which some todos have to be finished
I can assign a todo to a Milestone, and it will set its due date to the date in the milestone
An overview on which todos are in the milestone
A visual marker on the Gantt chart that shows the milestones due date
An overview per namespace
A list of the todos in a namespace
A kanban board for the whole namespace
Maybe collapsable swimlanes to group the todos in their representative list
Browser notifications for reminders
Mark a column in kanban board as “done”
I want a checkbox that I can toggle if this column sets a todo that is dropped there to done or not
If I take the todo out of this column, “done” should be reverted
Simple time tracking
Add manual how much time you invested
A simple time tracker ( 00:00 [> Start] ) in the browser that I can start and that adds the tracked value to the todo
More of a personal thing: I like to look at how much of my free time I already invested in my favorite project
I hope I could describe understandably what features I miss.
The tricky part about this is how to configure the kanban board for the namespace only? Since the kanban boards are usually configured per list, I feel like it would create a mess if we’d only show all the buckets from all the lists in one giant namespace kanban board. You’d kinda loose the additional overview you’d get through a single board.
I think to do this properly, we’d need to restrict the kanban boards for lists or sync them between the individual lists.
It is already possible to get offline notifications in in Chrome 86+ if you enable the “Experimental web features Flag”. This is more a feature for phones running chrome, but it also works on desktop. The usual notifications are currently not implemented though.
That sounds like a great addition, I’ve added it to the backlog.
I plan on making this a separate plugin once we got the plugin interface. That won’t happen in the near future though.
Time tracking is a huge topic and I think there’s a lot of effort involved to get it right. Therefore, I’d rather make that a separate plugin, also because not everyone would need it.
I think that’s a very specific use case so I’m not sure this would be a good fit for the general Vikunja. Might be a good candidate for a plugin though (once we have plugins).
Regarding the time tracking feature:
As far as I can tell this is nothing that we will implement any time soon. I do understand that this is important for many users (I could profit from this myself) but there are more fundamental changes that we really need to tackle first.
By the way: it’s now possible to vote for new features in topics inside ‘Feature Discussion’. That helps us to get a better prioritize our development.
Closing this topic, so that discussion on individual features can be more focused in the dedicated topics:
Milestones: couldn’t find a topic regarding this either. I do remember a discussion about this somewhere in the context of a general ‘planning’ feature. If you want us to focus more on this please check if you can find another topic or create a new one
A list of the todos in a namespace => this should be possible with filters
A kanban board for the whole namespace => tricky topic. Search for kanban to find discussions about this.
