Signed up this afternoon. All my starred google emails, evernotes with to do's, todoist tasks, trello cards miraculously appear on one screen. Chrome extension puts summary in new tab. Has loads of integrations. Looks useful!
The concept is strong, but I find the default themes really annoying. I see I can use a custom block colour - will go with that.
Interested to see how this develops though.
@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.
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Why taco? Mexican food obsession? Possible to integrate with AnyDo? Looks solid though.
@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.
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@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.
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The connectors are useful, but is there a way to manually add a Task?
@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.
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@troyd — Thanks, I figured that was the rationale. Really just wanted to make sure I wasn't losing my mind :-)
Love the concept but ran into some bugs while adding some connectors. UserVoice for instance has a malformed URL which seems to be causing some problems. Going to try others to see if I run into similar issues, but otherwise really looking forward to using it!
@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.
Stumbled upon a problem: Couldn't integrate a single Github Repository, resulting in hundreds of Issues on my task screen. Having a filter for that would be extremely useful. Nonetheless great app :)
@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.
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