Taco - All your tasks. One screen.

@jamesepember thanks for trying Taco, James, and for caring enough to help us improve. Back story on themes is that we added a set that we liked, then removed the worst half (based on living with them ourselves for weeks and which ones users preferred). That doesn't mean they're perfect or set in stone, though, so if you see one that seems awkward, or have an idea, please send it my way.

@troyd So, my opinion is less is more, and would help drive focus towards completing task. Quite happy so far (just a few hours) - will come back with feedback after a few days.

@jamesepember I share that opinion. If you haven't tried it yet, hide the "For Later" sidebar (by clicking the show/hide bar at the left edge of the screen). That's how I recommend most folks use Taco, how I do most of the time, and how the site tries to guide people towards (choose -> do -> repeat). Taco remembers that setting in the Chrome extension and on the site.

@mzuvella the neatest device I could think of was a taco foundry[1]: push a button, get a taco. It started life as Taco Foundry, so we started calling it Taco for short. Simpler and shorter wins, so it became Taco. [1]: That's probably a "yes" to "Mexican food obsession?" :-) Bonus: there's a debit card in my wallet which says Taco Foundry.

@troyd Please tell me you only buy tacos with that card? ;)

@mzuvella Taco makes perfect sense as a name to me. You can throw almost anything inside a tortilla, roll it up, and call it a taco. That's a good analogy for getting a bunch of disparate networks and rolling them up into your "taco". Doesn't hurt that the name's short, easy to spell, and memorable.

@mzuvella Even better: I got to use it once to purchase memelitas in Oaxaca (on this trip: https://twitter.com/troyd/status...). They're an ordinary and necessary business expense.

@muldster in a word, no :) Here's the longer version. There's 3 reasons why: 1. Taco would be the 2,500th general-purpose way to track tasks, and if no existing solution meets your needs, the odds are slim that our 2501st version is going to. 2. Really lightweight entry systems already exist, like Google Tasks, sending yourself and/or starring an email, TaskPaper, Todoist, and plain text files. The problem of very quickly entering a task can be solved without Taco. (Taco also has keyboard shortcuts to open a connected service in a new tab.) 3. The expanded scope would be distracting. We can make an awesome way to get more of your existing tasks done, but not if we also try to be a general-purpose task manager. Hope this context helps.

@troyd — Thanks, I figured that was the rationale. Really just wanted to make sure I wasn't losing my mind :-)

@epicsaurus Thanks, Joe (and sorry for the problem!). We're fixing UserVoice now[1]. Please try again on Monday or Tuesday. I'd personally appreciate any feedback or wishes about this or anything else. I reply personally to every email sent in the app or to support@. [1]: The cause was a bug in how UserVoice generates OAuth URLs, which we'll be reporting to UserVoice.

@troyd you got it. I'll try again tomorrow. Awesome idea having it open on blank pages. It's impossible for me to forget about it!

@epicsaurus Resolved and verified as of a minute ago, Joe. https://twitter.com/tacoapp/stat... has a bit more.

@felix_hau thanks for using Taco, Felix. Taco can do this. For GitHub, filters can use repo name, repo owner (an easy way to say "all work-related repos"), and issue labels. These can also be mixed and matched, like to only retrieve your tasks with the "UI" label from your work repos, plus all of your tasks from your personal repos. The filter-worthy attributes are specific to the connector, so Basecamp has project name and Zendesk has ticket status, among others. If I can help craft a filter (or Taco doesn't find your ideal tasks for any reason), please email me at support@ or via the app.

@eric3000 I've also seen folks (me included..) resort to creating artificial deadlines for tasks that don't have real deadlines. This works about as well as you'd guess, which is to say, it doesn't. When there's only one of you, it's productivity theater. The value is not in having 75 "prioritized" tasks, it's in choosing which of those truly deserves my attention right now. With an across-the-board view that's quick to use, "prioritizing" is pretty simple: there's one of you, so choose what thing you're going to do now (OK, maybe there's 2 or 3). Do it for a while. Repeat. Taco does its best to facilitate this and stay out of the way.

@eriktorenberg We're not specifically looking for funding, but we are out to solve a big problem. We created Taco to help others who wear multiple hats stay "in the zone" all day. The zone – peaceful, productive, challenging, rewarding work – is actually called flow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flo... We've all had days that feel basically effortless and it's an incredible feeling. Taco was productized because it did that for me personally and I saw the results and felt the change. My goal, and Taco's purpose, is to help flow become the norm, not the exception. Delivering peaceful productivity to that many people isn't a simple undertaking, so if someone reading this feels the pain too, I'd enjoy chatting, whatever your interest. (How is a much longer discussion. The gist: give me the visibility to confidently focus on one task; let me move from one specific task to another so I'm never generically "working"; help me break down or eliminate challenging tasks.)

@belaurie Fairly frequently. We're very open to adding new services. We just added Salesforce.com (cases and tasks) and Instapaper (saved documents in a folder). We try to understand how it's actually going to get used, rather than just adding stuff. Taco should intelligently retrieve actual things you need to do, not a huge wish list of stuff you wish would happen. As an example, that's why Instapaper syncs with a specific folder (like "Must read"), not the main list of saved documents. More is not better, better is better. For services which aren't specifically supported by Taco, one can often still use Taco by using the service's RSS feed, an exported text file, or by starring an email sent by the service. Since those are one-way, Taco can't mark the task completed. However, since Taco can also hide a task internally, it's still possible to remove them from Taco's list without leaving Taco. Works pretty well given the constraints.